All Episodes - Professor Cornel Zwierline: Knowlege Gaps: The Early Modern Foundations of Conspiracy & Democracy

A Public Lecture by Conspiracy & Democracy Visiting Fellow Professor Cornel Zwierlein (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy research project on Tuesday, 28 January at 5pm at the Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick Site) when Professor Cornel Zwierlein (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) will speak about “Knowledge Gaps: The Early Modern Foundations of Conspiracy & Democracy”.It seems as if Conspiracy Theories are a particularly modern phenomenon. By relying on some examples and cases, this lecture gives a long-term overview of what they looked like and when they appeared. We possess full-fledged conspiracy theory texts only since the 16th century. While examples may have existed already in Antiquity, we do not possess any textual evidence for them. The lecture tries to develop an explanation for why conspiracy theories emerged only at this point in European history. In order to do so, it is necessary to distinguish between conjurations, any kind of

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