From Machiavelli to QAnon - join us as we trace the fascinating genealogy of modern day conspiracies with Prof Andrew McLenzie-McHarg

Truthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, crisis actors, chemtrails, the Epstein files, Pizzagate, the Plandemic - it seems as though there’s a conspiracy theory for every situation. But what exactly is a conspiracy theory? And why is the term used to describe beliefs that are so unlike theories (at least in the scientific sense of the word) ?

Join Andrew McKenzie-McHarg as he traces the origins of conspiracy theorising from Machiavelli and Savonarola through the French Revolution, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Nuremberg Trials, to Richard Hofstadter’s “paranoid style” and today’s QAnon - offering a new perspective on the origins and evolution of one of the defining—and most troubling—features of modern political culture.

This event takes place downstairs in the Tusk Room, The Walrus Pub, Brighton. Unfortunately there is no wheelchair access at this venue.

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