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SUMMARY:Teach-Out! Conference! Post-Truth Phenomenon (15-17 March) -      
  
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CONTACT:Ella McPherson
DESCRIPTION:Full programme and registration: https://wordpress.com/view/po
 sttruthphenomenon.wordpress.com \n\nThis exciting series of events\, open 
 to the public\, approaches the post-truth phenomenon in a variety of ways\
 , including journalism\, feminism\, politics\, theatre\, academia\, film\,
  art\, human rights\, and technology.\n\nCGHR is sponsoring a panel on Evi
 dence in the Post-Truth Era: Human Rights Perspectives.\n\n‘Post-Truth
 ’ was the 2016 Oxford Dictionaries word of the year. Announced in Novemb
 er\, shortly after the election of Donald Trump in the United States and t
 he referendum on Brexit in the United Kingdom\, this selection added fuel 
 to an ongoing mainstream and social media frenzy about fake news and ‘al
 ternative facts’ and concomitant implications for politics\, citizenship
 \, journalism\, and beyond. The post-truth phenomenon\, ‘relating to or 
 denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in sh
 aping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief\,’ as d
 efined by Oxford Dictionaries\, has been the subject of much instant comme
 ntary – though little academic analysis. This series of teach-out events
  and conference are an opportunity to consolidate and advance our understa
 nding of the post-truth phenomenon through collaborative activities and in
 terdisciplinary conversation.  At these events' core is the view that this
  is a moment of ‘knowledge controversy\,’ namely\, a rupture of the na
 turalised order that provides a window onto the norms\, practices\, and po
 wer relations supporting that naturalised order.\n\nThe Conference is orga
 nised by *Dr Ella McPherson*\, *Dr Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra* and *Devika Ran
 jan*. 
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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