中研院民族所

2024年11月22-23日

FRI-SAT, November 22-23, 2024

本所第三會議室（本所新館2319會議室）

李梅君Mei-Chun Lee｜Academia Sinica
Kukhee Choo｜Hosei University
司黛蕊Teri Silvio｜Academia Sinica
Melissa Demian｜University of St Andrews
Nishant Shah｜Chinese University of Hong Kong
白瑞梅Amie Parry｜National Central University
胡子哥 Gabriele de Seta｜University of Bergen
Katrien Jacobs｜Monash University Malaysia
林照真 Caroline Lin｜National Taiwan University

In recent years, misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories
have become increasingly important factors in political processes around
the world, and these phenomena cannot be ignored by anthropologists
and scholars in related disciplines. The questions of what is real and what
is fake, and how can we know, matter not only to our interlocutors but
are also pressing epistemological questions that may force us to reframe
our findings and our methodologies.
Some anthropologists have discussed conspiracy theory and the
conditions that give rise to it in terms of what it can tell us about local
ideas about what political power is and how it works in general (e.g.,
West and Sanders, eds. 2003, Boyer 2006, Birchell 2006, Masco and
Wedeen, eds, 2024). Others have looked at conspiracy discourse outside
of the field of politics, for instance how discourse about the cover-up of
truths about the existence of aliens is an alternative way of narrating
known but uncomfortable histories (e.g., Battaglia, ed. 2006, Lepselter
2016). Other topics related to questions of truth and falsehood, what is
deliberately hidden and what can be revealed, such as gossip, religious
experience and conversion, and the uses and misuses of scientific
discourse, have had longer histories within the discipline, and the effects
of new media technologies on all of these phenomena is an urgent topic of
current research.
This interdisciplinary conference will be looking at the conditions that give
rise to new ways of thinking about what is true and what is fake, how
truth and untruth are presented and disseminated, especially in relation
to the structure of digital environments and government surveillance.
Topics covered will include conspiracy theories around political events
(such as assassinations), how conspiratorial thinking and disinformation
spread and how they might be combatted, and how technological
innovations (such as AI) and new types of totalizing social media and
surveillance environments are creating new types of truth and new forms
of revelation. Most of the research being done on these topics has been
conducted in the context of North America and Europe. Here we look at
discourses emerging primarily outside of those contexts (especially in
Asia), with complicated global and local interconnections. Like the
discourses we study, the conference aims to uncover how new formations
of the hidden and the visible, the corrupt and the pure, (re)construct
relationships between the past and the future.

主辦單位：中央研究院民族學研究所

Organizer: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

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