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Coffee and Breakfast
Welcome and Introductions
Lisa Wedeen and Joseph Masco, Conference Organizers
Panel I: Origin Stories
George Shulman, New York University- Genre and Impasse in American Politics and Literature
Faith Hillis, University of Chicago - Conspiracy and Its Curious Afterlives: The Case of Russia’s First Hack of Liberal Democracy
Timothy Melley, Miami University - Conspiracy, Theory and the (Secret) Work of the State
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Lunch Break
Panel II: State Programs
Hussein Ali Agrama, University of Chicago - After Muslims: Secrecy and Blasphemy in Modern Liberal State
Lisa Davis, Princeton University - The President’s Body: “Conspiracy Culture” and the Problem of Missing Persons in Cyprus
Joseph Masco, University of Chicago - A False Flag
Coffee Break
Panel III: Corporate Planning
Joseph Dumit, University of California, Davis- Corporate Conspiring: Techniques for Calibrating Our Futures
Robert Meister, University of California, Santa Cruz - Finance-as-Conspiracy/Market-as-Theory
Louisa Lombard, Yale University - Wartime Profiteering: Two Perspectives on Conspiracies and Facts