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From April 10-12, 2023, The University of Texas at Austin will host the #Connexions Conference on global media in diplomacy and foreign policy. #Connexions will create an international space for discourse on modern media and technology in state affairs to help address the critical need for informed and expert leadership in the information sphere, promoting a safer and healthier digital environment that in turn shapes the direction of history. Of main focus will be the chaos of information itself and how it informs and impedes the creation, execution, and communication of policy and the effective conduct of diplomacy. Academics, policymakers, and media practitioners will convene to address the key issues of our ever-evolving media environment, including fake news, disinformation, social media, cyber warfare, artificial intelligence, and the vulnerabilities of technologies that govern and drive global connectivity.

For more information, visit the conference website at https://www.slavx.org/connexions.

Using digital humanities methodology, Adam Hanzel and Dr. Kiril Avramov seek to analyze the “interplay between Patriarch Kirill’s ideology of ‘Holy Tradition’ and the movement Sorok Sorokov,” specifically in “the digital space.” Read the full article at the link below.

Team Pravda recently published “Putin the historian: Russian disinformation narratives around Ukraine” in the “Forum for Ukrainian Studies”. Led by Dr. Tatiana Klynina and featuring student researchers David Castillo, Nicholas Pierce, and TTL Mykhaylo Simanovskyy, the publication discusses Russia’s disinformation practices through the use of historical narrative. Read the full article at the link below.