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SUMMARY:Dealing with Extremism - Professor David Runciman\, University of 
 Cambridge
DTSTART:20170203T173000Z
DTEND:20170203T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Many extremist ideologies rely heavily on conspiracy theories 
 to explain how the world works and where power lies. This lecture explores
  what our understanding of conspiracy theories – where they come from\, 
 how they work\, who believes in them – can tell us about dealing with ex
 tremism. The US presidential election campaign showed that conspiracy theo
 ries are increasingly becoming part of the currency of democratic politics
 . Is democracy itself becoming more extremist? Where do the boundaries lie
  between the contestation of democratic values and the repudiation of them
 ? This lecture will examine the relationship between harmless conspiracy t
 heories\, dangerous extremism and the rise of ‘post-truth’ politics an
 d it will ask how we can still draw the line between them.\n\n*Biography*\
 n\nDavid Runciman is Professor of Politics and Head of the Department of P
 olitics and International Studies (POLIS) at Cambridge University. His boo
 ks include Political Hypocrisy and The Confidence Trap: A History of Democ
 racy in Crisis and he writes regularly about politics for the London Revie
 w of Books. He is one of the directors of a major Leverhulme-funded resear
 ch project based in Cambridge on Conspiracy and Democracy\, which explores
  the history and impact of conspiracy theories on democratic politics. (Mo
 re details of the project can be found here: "http://www.conspiracyanddemo
 cracy.org/":http://www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org/) He is the host of the 
 popular weekly podcast Talking Politics.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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