Date: October 11, November 6, 7 and 8, 2024
Locations: Auditorium 102 of CAD3/UFMG, Alice Monteiro de Barros Auditorium of the Law School, Baesse Auditorium of Fafich and Orlando Magalhães Auditorium of the Law School of UFMG

Speakers: Letícia Cesarino – Federal University of Santa Catarina / Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, Dani Madrid-Morales – professor at the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom), professors André Abath and Ernesto Perini-Santos, both from the Department of Philosophy (Fafich) and Marcus Abílio Pereira, from the Department of Political Science (Fafich).

The 1st International Conference of the Network of Studies on Democracy and Disinformation (REDD) was an event linked to the Institute of Transdisciplinary Studies (IEAT) of UFMG and the UFMG Program of Citizen Training in Defense of Democracy, which sought to debate the problems of disinformation, digital populism, denialism, algorithms and democracy. To this end, it had four meetings, with the themes “Conference: Old threats, new threats: Selections and disinformation in four African democracies”, “Workshop 1”, “Workshop 2: Methodological approaches in comparative disinformation research” and “Conference: The world inside out: Truth and politics in the digital age”.