How do conspiracies happen, how can historians use them to understand more about the past, and where do they begin and cease to be relevant to the study of history? Such questions...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Fri 1 Mar 2013

Jonathan Haslam, Professor of the History of International Relations
The history of Russia’s Secret Services from the Revolution to the Fall of the Wall: the Military...

Collection: Hay Festival lectures

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Tue 4 Jun 2013

Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy research project on Tuesday 13th May at 5pm at the Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College when Dr Pascal Girard (Reims) will...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 16 May 2014

Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy research project on Tuesday, 29th April at 5pm at the Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick Site) when Mr Dwight Smith Jr will...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 9 May 2014

A Public Lecture by Conspiracy & Democracy Visiting Fellow Professor Cornel Zwierlein (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Wed 29 Jan 2014

Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy research project when Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 9 May 2014

A Public Lecture by Conspiracy & Democracy Visiting Fellow Stef Aupers (Erasmus University of Rotterdam).

In the social sciences, a conspiracy theory is often disqualified as...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Wed 29 Jan 2014

Conspiracy and Democracy, a Leverhulme-funded research project. More information is available at www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org.

Dr Girard will describe how the “red scare”...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Fri 30 May 2014

Conspiracy and Democracy, a Leverhulme-funded research project. More information is available at www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org.

Mr Smith’s paper will explore how the idea of...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Fri 30 May 2014

Conspiracy and Democracy, a Leverhulme-funded research project. More information is available at www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org.

Professor Cornel Zwierlein (Ruhr-Universität...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Fri 30 May 2014

Conspiracy and Democracy, a Leverhulme-funded research project. More information is available at www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org.

Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Fri 30 May 2014

Conspiracy and Democracy, a Leverhulme-funded research project. More information is available at www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org.

In the social sciences, a conspiracy theory is...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Fri 30 May 2014

A public talk by Professor Joseph Parent (University of Miami) & Professor Joseph Uscinski (University of Miami).

Are conspiracy theories overtaking deliberative societies,...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Tue 3 Jun 2014

This paper examines British and American anticommunist conspiracy theories in the 1920s and 1930s. In both countries, former wartime intelligence agency chiefs set up private...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Tue 3 Jun 2014

A public talk by Professor Joseph Parent (University of Miami) & Professor Joseph Uscinski (University of Miami).

Conspiracy and Democracy, a Leverhulme-funded research...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Wed 4 Jun 2014

Conspiracy and Democracy, a Leverhulme-funded research project. More information is available at www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org.

This paper examines British and American...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Wed 4 Jun 2014

"Is Democracy Conspiratorial?: Koselleck, Furet, and the Debate on the French Revolution"

Since the time of the abbé Barruel, the French Revolution - the source of democratic...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 27 Jun 2014

"Is Democracy Conspiratorial?: Koselleck, Furet, and the Debate on the French Revolution"

Conspiracy and Democracy, a Leverhulme-funded research project. More information is...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Fri 27 Jun 2014

Stolen Votes, Secret spooks and the hidden oil: Conspiracy theories in an age of transparency

A public talk by the journalist and broadcaster David Aaronovitch (The Times).

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 17 Oct 2014

Dr Alex Beringer (Montevallo) will present a public leacture.

This talk will explore Mark Twain’s perspective on conspiracy theory in late-nineteenth century America. In...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Tue 28 Oct 2014