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