Date: 18 December 2023
Time: 13:00-14:00 CET
Location: Online event
Our next EDMO BELUX Lunch Lecture will take place on 18 December at 13:00-14:00 CET. This time, we are delighted to welcome as our guest speakers Kamil Bernaerts, PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and University of Warwick, and Benjamin Blanckaert, PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
Although polarisation is a global problem, not all democracies suffer equally. This Lunch Lecture will delve into the institutional differences that help explain why countries like the US are so deeply polarised, while those like Belgium are not (yet).
The EDMO BELUX Lunch Lectures are a series of informal gatherings on research topics such as disinformation, hate speech, polarisation, and digitalisation. During each Lunch Lecture, a guest speaker presents their work in a 30-minute talk, after which we open the floor for discussion. Lunch Lectures take place online and can be joined by everyone who is interested and who has registered beforehand.
The previous webinars in the series of Lunch Lectures:
- 6 March 2023: ‘Measuring and defining informational vulnerability: a proposal at the intersection of psychology, political science and media studies’ with Grégoire Lits, assistant professor in media sociology at the UCLouvain School of Communication and Journalism
- 17 April 2023: ‘To the front line with OSINT’ with Brecht Castel, an independent journalist and an expert in Open Source Intelligence
- 6 May 2023: ‘Truth or trust?’ with Eline Severs, assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
- 4 September 2023: Facebook Hustles with Guillaume Kuster, CEO and co-founder of Check First
- 14 September 2023: How scientists can cope with negativity on social media with Bert Pieters, Mediawijs
- 23 October 2023: Disinformation in Belgium and Luxembourg: from exposure to belief with Jonas Lefevere, M²P research group (UA) and Brussels School of Governance (VUB)
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