In the 2026-27 academic year, I'll be running an interdisciplinary seminar on doubt at the University of Glasgow. Description below:
Doubt, Distrust, and Disinformation seminar series
This interdisciplinary seminar series explores how doubt and distrust are cultivated, and the effects that they have, from the level of individual cognition to societal (dys)function. Speakers from various disciplines, including Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience, Politics, and Sociology, will present cutting-edge research on such topics as conspiratorial thinking, bias and prejudice, navigating trust online, the cognitive and social effects of generative AI, and the effects of mis- and disinformation on our political environments.
Seminars will be held in room 386AB of the Adam Smith building, at 3-5PM on Thursdays. The speaker list is below, and titles will be added as they are available:
24 September 2026: Lara Maassen (Philosophy, St Andrews) - Is gaslighting making us crazy? On rational agency and gaslighting
8 October: Yvonne Skipper (Psychology, University of Glasgow) - What makes something 'fake'? Young people's views of misinformation and what we do about it
22 October: Yvonne Eadon (Information Studies, University of Glasgow) - Femmetrails: Ephemerality and desire in queer fringe research cultures
19 November: Lluis de Nadal Alsina (Psychology, University of Glasgow) - Disinformation does not spread like a virus: The limits of the contagion model of social influence
28 January 2027: Juliette Vazard (Philosophy, University of Zürich)
25 February: Sergui Spatan (Philosophy, LMU Munich)
11 March: Glenn Anderau (Philosophy, University of Zürich)
22 April: Matt Jope (Philosophy, University of Glasgow)
6 May: N. Ángel Pinillos (Philosophy, Arizona State University)
If you'd like to be added to the mailing list for the seminar, which is the most reliable way of keeping up to date with any changes to the schedule, please email me at lilith.mace@glasgow.ac.uk.