Other Upcoming Events

Below is a list of upcoming events related to the Beyond Truth and Lies project:

Public lecture by Rickard Andersson

On 21 September 2024, 15:00–15:20, Beyond Truth and Lies researcher Rickard Andersson will deliver a public lecture for Kulturnatten in Lund titled Är konspirationsteorier en typ av samhällskritik? The lecture will take place at the Lund University LUX building Läsesalen (room B164).

Abstract: Konspirationsteorier tycks vara på uppgång inom politiken. Åtminstone är de på ropet. Men vad är de egentligen? Kanske är de uttryck för ett missnöje med hur samhället utvecklas? Här presenterar jag pågående forskning om konspirationsteorier som samhällskritik.

Visit from Kate Kirkpatrick on 1 October 2024

Kate Kirkpatrick, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics (Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK), will visit Lund University for a seminar and lecture.

Seminar: "The Myth(s) of Other Minds," 10:15–12:00 (1 October 2024)

In this seminar at Lund University, Kate Kirkpatrick will facilitate a discussion of work in progress on the topic of conspiracy theories, performance theory, and the study of religion by Aaron Goldman. Goldman will circulate his work in progress – to be read by attendees – at least one week in advance of the seminar. If you are interested to participate in the seminar, please email us at BeyondTruthAndLiesctr.luse at least 2 weeks in advance of the seminar, in order to receive reading materials. The seminar room will be announced when reading materials are circulated.

Lecture: "The Myth of Recognition in The Second Sex," 17:15–18:30 (1 October 2024) in LUX C126

Since Eva Lundgren-Gothlin’s Sex and Existence and Nancy Bauer’s Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism, several philosophical interpreters of The Second Sex have shared the assumption that The Second Sex is Hegelian and that “the Hegel question”—namely, the debate about whether and to what extent Beauvoir’s account of woman as the Other is indebted to Hegel’s Master/Slave dialectic—is best answered by reading Beauvoir through “French Hegel”, and especially through the reading of Alexandre Kojève. This lecture argues on textual, conceptual, and historical grounds that Beauvoir’s political project in The Second Sex is anti-Hegelian, sharing methodological and political commitments with the immanent critique of religion in Feuerbach and Marx and the interwar 'turn to the concrete'. As such, it presents Beauvoir as a ‘Mistress of Suspicion’, who turned to myth to unveil the values myths impose.

Kate Kirkpatrick is Fellow in Philosophy at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. Her research focuses primarily on French phenomenology and existentialism, feminism, and philosophical and religious ethics. She is the author of several books, including the internationally acclaimed biography of Simone de Beauvoir, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life.

Kate Kirkpatrik's visit is organized by the Beyond Truth and Lies project, funded by the LMK Foundation. Further funding support for her visit, seminars, and events was supplied by the Krookska Foundation.

­Visit from Damir Skenderovic 31 October – 1 November

Dimir Skenderovic, Professor of Contemporary History Damir Skenderovic (University of Fribourg, CH), will visit Lund University for a lecture and seminar.

Lecture: "Counter Media of the New Right," 17:15–18:30 (31 October) in LUX C121

Since the 1970s, a cultural and intellectual New Right has emerged in various Western European countries, producing numerous print periodicals that its protagonists saw as counter media projects. In their view, these periodicals were intended to challenge the dominant public sphere and oppose the ideas and representations in what they called the established media. The lecture asks how the German and French New Right sought to produce counterknowledge and create counterpublics through these journals. The lecture also examines the various political and cultural narratives that emerged and assesses the extent to which they were driven by conspiratorial thinking.

Seminar: Conspiracy Theories and Right-Wing Populism, 10:15–12:00 (1 November) in LUX B417

In this seminar we will discuss texts that focus on the relationship between conspiracy theories and right-wing populism. The aim is to explore the extent to which debates on the concept of (right-wing) populism include conspiratorial thinking as a defining dimension. Furthermore, the texts present past and present examples that illustrate the importance of conspiracy theories in right-wing populist politics.

Texts will be circulated in advance of the seminar via email to those planning to attend. If you are interested to attend the seminar, please contact us at BeyondTruthAndLiesctr.luse.

Damir Skenderovic is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His fields of research are the radical right after 1945, populism, migration history, and the sixties.

This event is co-organized by Beyond Truth and Lies and the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). Economic support for the event was received from Krookska stiftelsen and the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge.

You can also find on our website a list of upcoming Populism and Religion seminars and a list of past events related to the project.