The Merrimon Lecture, UNC School of Medicine
14 September 2022
Prof Heidi Larson, Founder and Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, will be presenting as this year’s guest lecturer. The Merrimon Lectures are one of the UNC School of Medicine’s oldest and most prestigious endowed lectureships involving distinguished senior speakers addressing issues in the ethics and history of the health professions.
26 January 2023 (Online)
2pm Eastern Time – US and Canada
Prof Sander van der Linden joins a panel of experts to discuss and explore why people fall for falsehoods at the Fourth Annual National News Literacy Week: Public Trust, Media Credibility and Democracy.
20 January, 2023
Online (Free tickets)
Taking place as part of the EU strategy for media literacy, Marco Delmastro, a social scientist supporting IRIS Academic’s infodemic research pillar, will join European panellists to discuss the phenomena of mis- and disinformation and the threat they pose to European democracy and well-being.
17 December, 2022
Belgrade, Serbia
Assistant Professor Matteo Cinelli from the Center of Data Science and Complexity for Society, presents his keynote lecture at the EMERGE 2022: Digital Society Now international conference – recording now available.
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