Davis Seminar Schedule

Davis Center Seminar

Truth and Information

Fridays at 10:15 am - 12:00 pm ET
211 Dickinson

The Shelby Cullom Davis Center Seminars present weekly programming on a variety of topics related to the Center's current theme. Visiting Fellows from academic institutions near and far help to create a rich understanding of the topic from diverse yet overlapping perspectives. The theme for the academic years 2024-26 is “Truth and Information."

The papers are pre-circulated and can be accessed one-week prior to the date of the seminar. Email Lana Rogers ([email protected]) for a copy of the paper. 

If you have access to Princeton University credentials, please access through SharePoint (university login required).

Events

The Plot to Kill John-Paul II: The Information Wars in the Cold War Era
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Financial Forensics: Police Surveillance and the Construction of Market Truth in Second Empire France
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Mendacious Statebuilders: The Politics of Secrets and Lies in Britain's Interwar Security Regime
Speakers
  • Jennifer Luff
    Davis Center Fellow and Johns Hopkins University
  • Commentator TBD
When the Truth Is Not Enough: Exposing Corruption in an Era of Impunity
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  • Nicole Hemmer
    Vanderbilt University
  • Commentator TBD
“True Picture of Public Opinion”: The Rise of Opinion Polling as a Scientific and Political Technology
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  • Greg Yudin
    Davis Center Fellow
  • Commentator TBD
Truth in the Trauma of the Fantastic: The Alien Abduction Controversy, 1975–2000
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Sacrilege, Conspiracy, and Proof in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Empire
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Truth and Information in Early Private Equity: Germany's GmbH, 1892–1933
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Knowledge, Information, and the British Colonial “Migrated” Archives
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Trials, Truths, and Legal Fictions: The Judge as a Writer of History
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