As part of the Australian Festival of Democracy and Human Rights, there are several events of potential interest to social psychologists, as described below.
- Yasemin Acar, Melis Ulug, and Stephan Lewandowsky are speaking into a panel titled “Why do they go after universities? Feedback loops between academic repression and democratic backsliding, and advice from the coalface” https://www.socialchangelab.net/academicrepression.html [Wed June 4 7-8pm AEST]
- A trio of media scholars are running a panel on how disinformation is mainstreamed called “Hidden influences on media and democracy” https://events.humanitix.com/hidden-influences-on-media-and-democracy [Thursday June 4 2-3:30pm AEST]
- Emma Thomas, Sam Pearson, Anna Zinn, and Winnifred Louis are speaking at the third annual conference on democracy and human rights https://www.socialchangelab.net/dhrconf25.html [Wednesday June 4, 9-5:30pm, at U of Melbourne and online]