{"id":9,"date":"2026-03-13T17:53:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:58:25","slug":"programme-and-registration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digital-humanities.open.ac.uk\/truth2026\/programme-and-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Programme and registration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TELLING THE TRUTH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programme \u00b7 5\u20136 November 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All times are GMT (UK)<\/strong> and use the 24-hour clock. Talks<\/strong> are 20 minutes<\/strong> plus 5 minutes for questions; lightning<\/strong> talks are 15 minutes<\/strong>. Where panels run in parallel they are labelled A, B and C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can download a pdf of the full programme<\/strong> at this link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telling_the_Truth_Programme<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

You can download the Book of Abstracts<\/strong> at this link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telling_the_Truth_Book_of_Abstracts_v2<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To attend an event or panel, click on its Register here<\/strong> link: each session has its own registration page, so please register separately<\/strong> for every session you plan to join<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Day 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 5 November 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08:30\u201308:50 <\/strong> Opening<\/strong>   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Practicalities and conduct \u2014 Rachele De Felice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction from the conference chair \u2014 Caroline Tagg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome remarks from the Open University Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation \u2014 Mark Brandon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colloquia \u00b7 parallel \u00b7 09:00\u201310:00<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

09:00\u201310:00 <\/strong> Colloquium: Truth, rhetoric and fiction<\/strong>  A   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Ford<\/strong>: Truth, rhetoric and fiction: literary forms of truth from the Elizabethan Stage, the late eighteenth century, through to the present day<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With contributions by Tim Hammond, Elizabeth Ford, Richard Jones and Joanne Reardon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:00\u201310:00 <\/strong> Colloquium: Democracy, disinformation and religion<\/strong>  B   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Paul-Francois Tremlett<\/strong>: Democracy, disinformation and religion: the mobilisation of truth by religious actors, institutions and counter-cultural communities<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With contributions by Vickie Hudson, Joseph Powell and Precious Chatterje-Doody<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallel panels \u00b7 10:00\u201311:30<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

10:00\u201311:30 <\/strong> Mediating Vulnerabilities<\/strong>  A   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Daria Chernysheva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00\u201310:30  Tamara Polajnar<\/strong>: Making Harm Legible: AI and the Truth-Telling of Victims<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30\u201311:00  Lohita Raulo<\/strong>: Health Misinformation in the Digital Age among Vulnerable Communities in Odisha<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00\u201311:30  Kyrie Miranda-Farnell<\/strong>: Avoiding the Algorithm: Self-Censorship and Euphemistic Violence on Social Media<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00\u201311:30 <\/strong> Poetic Truths<\/strong>  B   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Alex Tickell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00\u201310:30  Elhadj Benmoussa<\/strong>: Whose Truth Travels? Translation, Memory, and the Politics of Authenticity in Contemporary Algerian Narratives<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30\u201311:00  Dulani Kulasinghe<\/strong>: Locating Eddy: Reading against the grain of family stories and the colonial archive<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00\u201311:30  Daniel Calvert<\/strong>: Ethnographic poetry and the (non-)representation of atmospheric truths in social science research findings<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00\u201311:30 <\/strong> Public Truths<\/strong>  C   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Philip Seargeant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00\u201310:30  Britta Schneider<\/strong>: The Intersection of Truth-Construction and Language Materialisation Meaning-Making in Contexts of Print Literacy and Machine Learning and the Future of Public Truth<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30\u201311:00  Frank Monaghan<\/strong>: Hillsborough: a telling \u2018truth\u2019, untelling the lie<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00\u201311:30  Johannes Angermuller<\/strong>: Truth matters. For a socio-epistemic approach to public discourse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plenary<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

11:30\u201312:30 <\/strong> Plenary Panel 1: Authorship<\/strong>   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Bennett<\/strong> (University of Bristol)  \u00b7  Edmund King<\/strong> (The Open University)  \u00b7  Karina van Dalen-Oskam<\/strong> (University of Amsterdam and Huygens Institute)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by<\/strong> Francesca Benatti and Karina von Lindeiner-Str\u00e1sk\u00fd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30\u201313:00  Lunch<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Parallel panels \u00b7 13:00\u201315:00<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

13:00\u201315:00 <\/strong> Truthful Characters<\/strong>  A   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Joanne Reardon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:00\u201313:30  Anlie Williams<\/strong>: An Able Pen: Reading the Selves of Harriet Jacobs\u2019s LINDA: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:30\u201314:00  Heather Fishwick<\/strong>: Retelling the Truth<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:00\u201314:30  Dora Rusciano<\/strong>: Fiction as an Instrument of Social Deconstruction and Critical Analysis in Daniela Dr\u00f6scher\u2019s Work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:30\u201315:00  Radvil\u0117 Bartkut\u0117<\/strong>: Infected by Kukutis: The Genesis of a Poetic Character<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:00\u201315:00 <\/strong> Trauma and Truths<\/strong>  B   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Kristina Hultgren<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:00\u201313:30  Clare Best and Patricia Debney<\/strong>: Capturing complex truths through collaborative writing<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:30\u201314:00  Amy Booth<\/strong>: Performing authenticity in a child sexual exploitation and abuse forum<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:00\u201314:30  Evangelia Mourtzanou<\/strong>: Victimhood as Process: A Critical Discourse and Systemic Functional Study of Trauma, Identity and Agency<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallel panels \u00b7 15:00\u201316:45<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

15:00\u201316:45 <\/strong> Historical Storytelling<\/strong>  A   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Samuel Sargeant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:00\u201315:30  Arunima Chakraborty<\/strong>: WhatsApp Histories: Digital Propaganda and the Crisis of Historical Truth<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:30\u201316:00  Katie Hazel<\/strong>: Telling the truth of the past: Emotional authenticity and historical storytelling in Call the Midwife<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:00\u201316:30  Lauren Alex O\u2019Hagan<\/strong>: Constructing Truth, Selling Heroism: Commercial Narratives of Captain Scott\u2019s Antarctic Expedition (1910-13)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:00\u201316:45 <\/strong> Truths across Languages<\/strong>  B   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Rodrigo Hernaiz Gomez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:00\u201315:30  Abdelhamid Ahmed and Lameya Rezk<\/strong>: Telling the truth across languages: University students\u2019 use and metalinguistic understanding of evidentials in L1 Arabic and L2 English argumentative writing<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:30\u201316:00  Azzeddine Tamlakoutan<\/strong>: The Cognitive Grammar of Asymmetric Warfare: Force Dynamics and Spatial Proximization in Elite News Discourse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:00\u201316:30  Paloma Simone Seger<\/strong>: Al parecer: Evidential Marking in Mexican Journalism and Expert Reports on the Ayotzinapa Case<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:30\u201316:45  Irina Zhilina<\/strong>: Why Russian truth cannot be pretty: \u201ckrasivy\u201d vs \u201cprekrasny\u201d<\/em> [Lightning talk]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plenary<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

16:45\u201317:45 <\/strong> Plenary Panel 2: Authenticity<\/strong>   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Maxine Ali<\/strong> (University of Reading)  \u00b7  Siobhan Campbell<\/strong> (The Open University)  \u00b7  Matti Kangaskoski<\/strong> (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4)  \u00b7  Trask Roberts<\/strong> (Kent State University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by<\/strong> Korina Giaxoglou and Daria Chernysheva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evening event<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

18:30\u201320:00 <\/strong> Translation, Truth, and Textual Afterlives: An Evening of Transformation<\/strong>   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bianca Maria Alecu<\/strong> (University of Bucharest)  \u00b7  Matthew Reynolds<\/strong> (University of Oxford)  \u00b7  Helen Zaltzman<\/strong> (Broadcaster, writer, and producer of the linguistics podcast The Allusionist<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conversation with<\/strong> Daria Chernysheva (The Open University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Friday 6 November 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallel panels \u00b7 08:00\u201309:30<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

08:00\u201309:30 <\/strong> Representing Truths<\/strong>  A   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Karina von Lindeiner-Str\u00e1sk\u00fd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08:00\u201308:30  JD Davids<\/strong>: Oral History, Artifacts and Collaborative Testimony: Whose Authority Narrates Queer\/Trans Experience?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

08:30\u201309:00  Carly Speed<\/strong>: The Hidden Truths of Deaths in Psychiatric Detention<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:00\u201309:30  Rod Hermeston<\/strong>: Disability Stylistics: From Stereotypes to Positive Potential<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

08:00\u201309:30 <\/strong> Influencing the Truth<\/strong>  B   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Olivia Kelly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08:00\u201308:30  Maxine Ali<\/strong>: Commoditized controversy in post-truth digital wellness economies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

08:30\u201309:00  Nicola Wilson-Torch<\/strong>: Instagram, Inauthenticity and the Platformed Autobiography of Caroline Calloway<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:00\u201309:30\u00a0 Melissa Avdeeff<\/strong>, Megan\u00a0Rector, Viola\u00a0Wiegand<\/strong>: Mediating Environmental Truths: UK Outdoor Influencers and Informal Sustainability Discourse on Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallel panels \u00b7 09:30\u201311:30<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

09:30\u201311:30 <\/strong> Fictional Truths<\/strong>  A   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Francesca Benatti<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:30\u201309:45  Emily Bullock<\/strong>: The Truth of Ghost Stories<\/em> [Lightning talk]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:45\u201310:15  May Ouma<\/strong>: Author Authenticity, Censorship, and Conspiracies of Silence<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:15\u201310:45  Nicolas Mugavero<\/strong>: The Truth as Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:45\u201311:15  Louise Kari Mareau<\/strong>: Cynicism: a tool to sincerity?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:30\u201311:30 <\/strong> Platforming Truths<\/strong>  B   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Korina Giaxoglou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:30\u201310:00  Nikos Papadopoulos<\/strong>: Hypernarrativity and\/as narrative capital: Performed authenticity and aura farming in postdigital platform ecologies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00\u201310:30  Abdelhamid Adarrab<\/strong>: The Architecture of Authenticity in Post-Truth Social Media Ecologies: A Discursive Analysis of Truth-Claims by Moroccan Content Creators Elmaliki, Essou, Raghib, and Swinga<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30\u201311:00  Olivia Kelly<\/strong>: Truth in the age of social media algorithms<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00\u201311:30  Rachele De Felice<\/strong>: Email as platform for truth in an emerging pandemic: the construction of Anthony Fauci\u2019s authority<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallel panels \u00b7 11:30\u201313:00<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

11:30\u201313:00 <\/strong> Discursive Truths<\/strong>  A   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Kristina Hultgren<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30\u201312:00  Mohammad Aboomar<\/strong>: Shock or Appease: How Contradictory Truth Claims Shaped Evolution Popularisation in Arabic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:00\u201312:30  Edmund King<\/strong>: Truth Telling in Hypernormalised Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30\u201313:00  Nikolay Ternov and Dmitry Mikhailov<\/strong>: The lexemes \u201cfascist\u201d and \u201cNazi\u201d in the Telegram discourse of military bloggers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30\u201313:00 <\/strong> Social Media Truths<\/strong>  B   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Frank Monaghan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30\u201312:00  Xiangyu Zhang<\/strong>: Constructing recognizable masculinities through identity play in parody videos by female content creators on Douyin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:00\u201312:30  Kyu Hyun Park<\/strong>: Truth as Emotional Resource: Affective Truth-Claims and Community Negotiation in Korean Guilty Pleasure YouTube Discourse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30\u201313:00  Nicola Pelizzari<\/strong>: Pseudo-authority and Health (mis)information on TikTok. A corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:00\u201313:30  Lunch<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Plenary<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

13:30\u201314:30 <\/strong> Plenary Panel 3: Audiences<\/strong>   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dawn King<\/strong> (playwright and author of the acclaimed play The Trials<\/em>)  \u00b7  Stuart Johnstone<\/strong> (crime fiction writer and former police officer)  \u00b7  Lara Frumkin<\/strong> (The Open University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by<\/strong> D\u00f3nall Mac Cathmhaoill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallel panels \u00b7 14:30\u201316:00<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

14:30\u201316:00 <\/strong> Translating Truths<\/strong>  A   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Daria Chernysheva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:30\u201315:00  Katharina Walter<\/strong>: Augmented, Not Automated: Authorship, Authenticity and Truthfulness in AI-Mediated Translation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:00\u201315:30  Jes\u00fas De Prado Plumed<\/strong>: Hebrew Truth and Christian Polity from Anti-Jewish Spain: Emplotment, Mediation, and the Contingency of Truth-Claims in an Early Modern Case Study<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:30\u201316:00  Brinda Nair<\/strong>: When Chitra Becomes Painting: Translation, Authenticity, and Sacred Visual Discourse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:30\u201316:00 <\/strong> Performing Truths<\/strong>  B   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Jonathan Gibson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:30\u201315:00  Madeline Muravchik<\/strong>: Faking it, Honestly: Inherent and Staged Authenticity in Contemporary French Autobiographical Theater<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:00\u201315:30  Sabrina Francesconi<\/strong>: The female voice-over and truth-telling in audiovisual discourse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:30\u201316:00  Charles Cathcart<\/strong>: Marston, Montaigne, and telling the truth<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallel panels \u00b7 16:00\u201317:30<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

16:00\u201317:30 <\/strong> Unreliably Narrated Truths<\/strong>  A   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Francesca Benatti<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:00\u201316:30  Rebecca Connor-Evans and Alison Gibbons<\/strong>: Who remembers?: Cognitive Operations and Perspectival Mechanisms of Unreliability<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:30\u201317:00  Antonella De Blasio<\/strong>: Ambiguous Truths: Autofiction and the Poetics of Unreliability<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:00\u201317:30  Carmen Gomez-Galisteo<\/strong>: Truth Is a Story Someone Told Better: Unreliable Narrators in Gone Girl and Verity<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:00\u201317:30 <\/strong> Contesting and Correcting Truth Online<\/strong>  B   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Philip Seargeant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:00\u201316:30\u00a0 Ulisses Tadeu Vaz De Oliveira, Natalia Sexto<\/strong>: Defining Truth and Harm in Digital Platforms: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Hate Speech Policies on Social Media<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:30\u201317:00  Harith Alani<\/strong>: Telling the Truth to the Unwilling: Audience Reactions to Automated Corrections in the Wild<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:00\u201317:30  Sadia Choudhri<\/strong>: Constructing Truth: Exploring Hypertext Framing in Counterfeit News of Fact-checking Websites<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

17:30\u201318:00 <\/strong> Closing<\/strong>   \u00b7   Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Practicalities \u2014 Rachele De Felice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflections on the conference and concluding remarks \u2014 Kristina Hultgren and Alex Tickell, The Open University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farewell and next steps \u2014 Caroline Tagg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Banner image based on Bocca della Verit\u00e0<\/em> by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0<\/a>, from Wikimedia Commons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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