This feature documentary follows an international team of open-source investigative journalists trained in social media mining, reconstruction techniques, and visual analysis to shed light on news stories that are shrouded in secrecy, conspiracies, and state-sponsored political spin. These range from … Read more
Join us for a panel discussion examining media disinformation and manipulation strategies that have been attributed to and orchestrated by Russia vis-á-vis the U.S. and Ukraine. The panelists will address Russian Twitter bots, the state of media and journalism in contemporary … Read more
Ukraine's Euromaidan protest in 2013-2014 was a spectacular event that attracted significant media and public attention, due in no small part to the extensive use of social media by protesters. In this talk, based on ethnographic research conducted during and … Read more
Join us for a presentation and discussion of Andrea Bohlman's monograph "Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland" (Oxford University Press, 2020). Participants: Anna Krakus (University of Southern California), Donald Reid (History, UNC) and the author Andrea … Read more
Olga Lavrenova is a Russian geographer, philosopher and historian. She is one of the leading researcher at the Institute of Scientific Information on Human Science (INION RAS) and a professor at the National University of Science and Technology in Moscow. … Read more
What is ChatGPT? Where did it come from? What does it mean for science, scholarship, and public life? Join our interdisciplinary panel for a discussion of this new technology and its real and imagined impacts on the campus community. The … Read more
How can empathy be sparked through short socially engaging documentary films? How to open up a dialog about themes not talked about enough in our societies with character-based emotional stories? The UNC Forum on Southeast Europe is pleased to host … Read more
