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21 Jun

Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy Theories

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Saturday 21st June    
4:00pm - 5:30pm
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https://brightonbookfestival.co.uk/products/conspiracy-theories

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They are everywhere. Conspiracy Theories. But how seriously should we take them and why are even the most sensible of people drawn to them?

 Brighton Book Festival invites you to join us with neuroscientist and author Dr. Daniel Yon and Conspiracy theorist, journalist and writer James Ball as we dig into the spaces that maybe we should stay away from!

Daniel Yon is an experimental psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist and director of The Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. He received his PhD in 2018, took up his first academic post in 2019 and joined the faculty at Birkbeck in 2021 – where he is now Associate Professor (Reader) in Cognitive Neuroscience. In 2023 he was made a Visiting Fellow of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study and in 2024 he was awarded the Experimental Psychology Society’s EPS Prize for distinguished, independent and original contributions to experimental psychology. He lives in London with his wife, Rosa.

James Ball is an award winning journalist, broadcaster and author, fellow of the think-tank Demos, and the political editor of The New European.
He has worked as the global editor of TBIJ, a special correspondent at BuzzFeed UKand special projects editor at The Guardian, where he played a key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden, as well as the offshore leaks, HSBC Files, Reading the Riots and Keep it in the Ground projects.  At WikiLeaks he was closely involved in Cablegate – the publication of 250,000 classified US embassy cables in 2010 – as well as working on two documentaries based on the Iraq War Logs.
James is the author of multiple books, including “Post-Truth and “The Tangled Web We Weave: Inside The Shadow System That Shapes the Internet”. His most recent book, “The Other Pandemic: How Qanon Contaminated The World” was published by Bloomsbury in July 2023.
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