Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project Conference
This will be a two-day research and practitioner conference at the Caltech on January 16-17, 2025, to discuss research regarding information and misinformation in the 2024 U.S. elections and other 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. We will also hear from practitioners during the conferences about their experiences with misinformation in recent elections.
Conference organizers: R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech) and Betsy Sinclair (WUSTL)
This conference is intended for academic researchers, election practitioners, students, postdocs, and community stakeholders interested and involved in election administration. This event is also open to members from the Caltech community and those from other college and university communities.
Preliminary conference agenda:
January 16
Morning Session: Information and how it mattered in the 2024 election
8:45am - 9am. Conference Welcome & Intro: Michael Alvarez (Caltech)
9am - 10am. Plenary talk
10am - 10:15am. Break
10:15am - 11:15am. Election official and stakeholder lightening talks: Misinformation problems and solutions. (5 minutes).
11:15am - noon. Lightening research presentations for poster session participants (3 minutes).
Afternoon Session: Information and voter views of election integrity
1:15pm - 2:15pm. Plenary talk
2:15pm - 2:30pm. Break
2:30pm - 3:30pm. Perspectives from the U.S. Election Assistance Commissioners
3:30pm - 5pm. Research presentations
3:30pm - 3:45pm. Talk 1.
3:45pm - 4pm. Talk 2.
4pm - 4:15pm. Talk 3.
4:15pm - 4:30pm. Talk 4.
4:30pm - 5pm. Q&A.
Reception and poster session (12 posters)
January 17
Morning Session: Misinformation, conspiratorial thinking, and disinformation in the 2024 election
8:45am - 9:45am. Plenary talk
9:45am - 10am. Break
10am - noon. Research presentations
10am - 10:20am. Talk 5
10:20am - 10:40am. Talk 6
10:40am - 11am. Talk 7
11am - 11:20am. Talk 8
11:20am - 11:45am. Q&A
Afternoon Session: Improving the quality of political discourse
1pm - 2:30pm. Research presentations
1pm - 1:20pm. Talk 9
1:20pm - 1:40pm. Talk 10
1:40pm - 2pm. Talk 11
2pm - 2:30pm. Q&A and conference wrap-up.