Professor Andreas Önnerfors from Linnaeus University in Sweden will give a lecture, delivered via Zoom, titled "Conspiracy Theories: Meaning-making narratives across time and space." Since 2010, Professor Andreas Önnerfors he has dedicated his scholarly pursuits to examining and exploring contemporary issues such as radicalization and conspiracy theories.
To imagine powerful actors who are conspiring against our best with nefarious ends has a long history of ideas. In this lecture, intellectual historian Andreas Önnerfors presents a chronology of conspiratorial imagination dating back in time and reaching into our contemporary situation. How is meaning constructed in narratives of conspiracy, why is the universal formula of conspiratorial storytelling so compelling and how does it travel across space?
While all are welcome to this session, students and faculty from the Humanities Institute and Center for Folklore Studies, especially students of the current seminar "Folklore in Circulation" may find this talk particularly insightful.
*More information, including abstract and zoom link coming soon!
Co-sponsored by the Center for Folklore Studies and the Humanities Institute.
This event is free, open to the public and welcoming to everyone.
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