Colloquium Series for 2023-2024
Trust 101: Who to Let in, Who to Keep out
Do you allow just anyone to enter your home? Do you reveal your suffering to anyone who will listen? Do you ever find yourself holding back from full self-expression because you do not trust your current social context? Do you accept friend requests from everyone who asks to be your friend on Facebook? Do you believe most things you read on Twitter and other social media? Do you act as if your vote is counted properly in local, state, and federal elections?
Trust permeates our daily lives, from one-on-one interactions to social media, to looking for help, to casting a ballot in an election. How do we decide who or what to trust? Is there a right or wrong way to trust? Are some people, social media sites, and forms of government more trustable than others? Why?
The Extending Empathy Project is pleased to collaborate with The American Democracy Project to bring to you this series of colloquia geared toward examining just how thoroughly trust determines the course of our lives. Each talk will focus on how trust works at a different levels of engagement, beginning with one-one-one interaction, then the media, then social media such as Twitter, and then, finally, democracy itself.
All of these presentations will take place on zoom and are free to the public.
All sessions have the same registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodu6vqj4jG9QpTDx3jZGZUaw-scVZZQiN
Trust and the Unseen Burden of Authenticity
Dr. Vanessa Hintz
School of Education and Human Services
Carroll University
Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
4:00-5:30 pm CST
Trust After Twitter
Dr. Nathan Carpenter
College of Journalism and Communications
University of Florida
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
4:00-5:30 pm CSTMisplaced Trust: What Role Does Trust Have in Conspiratorial Thinking?
Anna George1, M.S., & Dr. Eric Wesselmann2
Oxford Internet Institute1 Illinois State University2
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
4:00-5:30 pm CSTTrust and Media in a Post-Truth Era
Dr. Steve Hunt
School of Communications
Illinois State University
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
4:00-5:30 pm CSTEnhancing Trust by Dismantling Stigma: An Ecological Perspective
Dr. Daniel Lannin
Department of Psychology
Illinois State University
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
4:00-5:30 pm CST“Why Can’t I Trust You?” The Neuroscience and Psychology of Trust
Dr. J. Scott Jordan
Department of Psychology
Illinois State University
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
4:00-5:30 pm CSTConfronting America’s Legitimacy Crisis: (Dis)Trust, Precarity, and the Necessity of Democratic Reforms
Dr. Byron Craig & Dr. Steve Rahko
School of Communications
Illinois State University
Wednesday, June 19th, 2024
4:00-5:30 pm CST