Modern Media Landscapes

Roundtable discussion "On the Other Side of Post-Truth: Modern Media Landscapes" in the framework of "Politics and Culture" Seminar (58–60 Galernaya Street).

PROGRAM

3 June

9:00am Registration

9:30am Introductory remarks: Friedrich Cain (Germany), Daria Petushkova (Moscow), Jan Surman (High School of Economics, Moscow)

10:00am Bernhard Kleeberg (University of Erfurt, Germany) "The Truth-Era: Epistemologies of Desintegration"

11:15am Coffee break

11:30am Session 1. Chair: Dietlind Huchtker

• Diego Han (Zagreb University, Croatia) "The Post-Truth Bias: A Historical Perspective"
• Andreas Langenohl (University of Giessen, Germany) "Post-Truth or Post-Normativity? Remarks on Recent Critiques of Public Political Communication"

1:00pm Lunch

2:30pm Session 2. Chair: Friedrich Cain

• Philipp Kohl (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) "Image Stabilization: The Camera and the Post-Political (Loznitsa, Navalny)"
• Armen Aramyan (Moscow) "Anthropology of Advertising and Production of Non-truths"

4:00pm Coffee break

4:30pm Session 3. Chair: Ilia Kalinin

• Greg Yudin (High School of Economics; Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences) "Against Tyranny of Truth in Politics"
• Aleksander Bikbov (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France) "How do French Yellow Vests and Russian White Stripes Rationalize Political Anomalies"

4 June

10:00–12:15pm Session 4. Chair: Armen Aramyan

• Olga Savinskaya (High School of Economics, Moscow) "Censorship and Self-Censorship in Social Networks: Search for Rationale Logics in Online Storytelling"
• Solovieva Olga (High School of Economics, Moscow), Zhigaylov Aleksander (High School of Economics, Moscow), Smirnov Philipp (High School of Economics, Moscow), Boyarshinova Polina (Moscow) "Non-political Manifestation of Post-Truth"
• Konstantin Gabov (Moscow Institute for Social and Cultural Programs) "Experts of the Youtube: What Type of Knowledge is Produced in the (Post-) Social Media Era?"

12:15pm Lunch

1:15pm Session 5. Chair: Jan Surman

• Zhanna Mylogorodska (University of Leipzig, Germany) "The Image of Divided Ukraine Presented on Maps"
• Sophie Schmaing (University of Giessen, Germany) "Performative Aspects of Popular Sovereignty in the Recent Russian-Ukrainian Conflict"

2:45pm Coffee break

3:00 Session 6. Chair: Daria Petushkova

• Darya Khokhlova (Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow), Nikita Khokhlov (High School of Economics, Moscow) "The Soviet Union Did not Collapse: Post-Truth Through the Russian Popular Music (2010—Present)"
• Ilia Yablokov (University of Leeds, England) "What Really Happened in 1991? The Soviet Collapse and the Culture of Conspiracy in the Post-Soviet Space"

4:30pm Coffee break

5:00pm Keynote: Stef Aupers (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgique) "Conspiracy Theories"