Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project

Information and Misinformation in Elections: 2025 Conference

Baxter Lecture Hall, California Institute of Technology

January 16-17, 2025

We plan a two-day conference at the California Institute of Technology on January 16-17, 2025, to discuss research regarding information and misinformation in the 2024 U.S. elections.  Research topics may include how campaigns used innovative new approaches to target and persuade voters, how social media influenced voters, what the electorate knew (or did not know) about the candidates and issues, misinformation in the election, election rumors and denialism, rhetoric about election integrity, disinformation dissemination and impact on the election, and conspiracy theories regarding the candidates and the administration of the election. While we will likely focus on research from social sciences and computer science, we welcome research from all disciplines and methodologies.  Our main focus will be on the 2024 U.S. elections, but we welcome research proposals from previous elections or elections in other nations.  

If you would like to attend the conference and present your research, please submit a 250-500 word abstract by November 20, 2024 to lcssp@hss.caltech.edu. Some research proposals will be invited for conference talks, others may be invited for poster presentations (if you have a preference, please indicate that in your email). We have limited funding to support travel for conference participants, in particular graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty.  

Preliminary conference agenda:

January 16

Morning Session: Information and how it mattered in the 2024 election

  • Plenary talk

  • Research presentations

Afternoon Session: Information and voter views of election integrity

  • Plenary talk

  • Election official roundtable

  • Research presentations

Reception and poster session

January 17

Morning Session: Misinformation, conspiratorial thinking, and disinformation in the 2024 election

  • Plenary talk

  • Research presentations

Afternoon Session: Improving the quality of political discourse

  • Research presentations

Conference wrap-up

Confirmed Speakers

R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology

Emily Beaulieu Bacchus, University of Kentucky

Christina Farhart, Carleton College

Emilio Ferrara, University of Southern California

Justin Grimmer, Stanford University

Stephan Levandowsky, University of Bristol

Joanne Miller, University of Delaware

Jonathan Nagler, New York University

Betsy Sinclair, Washington University in St. Louis

Charles Stewart III, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lynn Vavreck, University of California, Los Angeles