During the 28th Annual Conference of Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) “Twenty Years of EU Membership: Lessons Learned, Challenges and Opportunities” October 2024, Kaunas our project Team organized a panel: Conspiracy theories and manipulations.

Title: „Conspiracy theories in Central and Eastern Europe in comparison with reality in US, with focus on times of COVID-19” Abstract: The objective of the article is to provide an overview of the phenomenon of conspiracytheories and realities in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and USA, especially in timesof COVID-19. Countries in Central and Eastern Europe share several common characteristics while also having some distinctive historical experiences. At the same time, several characteristicsseparate the United States of America from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.One of them is long tradition of research in the field of conspiracy theories.We aim to explore the existence of various conspiracy narratives and…

The „Tuesday Seminar” offers a place for the exchange of ideas and brings academic work to life.The colloquium series is coordinated by Centre for the Study of Democracy.

Paweł Matuszewski presented a paper entitled How to find rapidly evolving discourses in unstructured text data. Presentation of the original algorithm. 14th National Conference OKMM „From newspaper to artificial intelligence – the evolution of contemporary media research”, Warsaw, November 23-24, 2023, Organizer: Media Research Laboratory, University of Warsaw

PAPERS:

Paweł Matuszewski presented a paper entitled Searching for complex social phenomena in large and unstructured text data, national conference Methodological Inspirations, Jabłonna, 21-22/09/2023, Organizer: IFiS PAN.

Preliminary research results from Poland and Slovenia were presented at the prestigious 119th conference organized by the American Political Science Association. The research met with great interest of the international community. Miro Haček (University of Ljubljana), presentation on From Conspiracies and Intergovernmental Relations: Slovenian Democratic Decline in the Central European Political Science Association panel “The problematic backsliding in CEE” (chair: Simona Kukovič, School of Advanced Social Studies; discussant: Kenneth Chan, Hong-Kong) Agnieszka Turska-Kawa & Natalia Galica were invited to the panel Memory, Religion, and Conspiracy: The Politics of Narrative in East Europe with the presentation on Religiosity and conspiracy beliefs. The study of catholic Poland (chair: George Soroka, Harvard University,…

On May 11, we hosted Joanna Marszałek-Kawa and the Nicolaus Copernicus University students. They took part in a seminar on conspiracy theories conducted by Agnieszka Turska-Kawa.

„Discussions about democracy” Between the Pandemic and the War. Post(?) pandemic Threats to Democracy (20-21.04.2023, Hotel STOK, Wisła, Poland) Panel: Political Potential of Conspiracy Theories Chairs: Agnieszka Turska-Kawa University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) and Mikołaj Cześnik (SWPS University)