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Frankfurt debate

The "Frankfurt Debate on Language" series of events takes place every year with changing topics. This is the German Academy for Language and Literature's response to the great public interest in the German language and presents current topics for discussion. The fall 2023 edition on the topic of "Conspiracy Theories" was curated by the leaders of the DFG project.

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Project conference "Language use in conspiracy theories"

The final conference of the project took place at the University of Kassel from March 18-20, 2025.

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Lehrveranstaltungen zum Projektthema

  • Wintersemester 2025/2026: Sprachgebrauch in Verschwörungstheorien (LMU München)
  • Wintersemester 2024/2025: Rhetorik in Gegenöffentlichkeiten (Universität Kassel)
  • Wintersemester 2024/2025: Verschwörungstheorien in Text und Diskurs (LMU München)
  • Wintersemester 2022/2023: Verschwörungstheorien linguistisch (Universität Kassel)
  • Wintersemester 2017/2018: Sprache in Verschwörungstheorien [2x] (Universität Trier)

 

Workshops and public lectures

  • Linguistic perspectives on conspiracy thinking (workshop for members of the Beratungskompass Verschwörungsdenken network, 09/2025)
  • Conspiracy theories - and how they are made credible through language (workshop with pupils from the Martin Luther King School in Ratingen, 11/2024)
  • Extremism, language and conspiracy theories (lecture followed by a workshop for teachers and social workers in the city and district of Kassel (training series organized by the Kassel school authority), 09/2024)
  • Conspiracy theories - and how to make them linguistically credible (workshop with pupils from the city and district of Kassel (gifted education program of the Kassel school authority), 09/2024)
  • Conspiracy theories | Frankfurt debate on language (German Academy for Language and Literature, 11/2023)
  • Conspiracy theories - and how to make them linguistically credible (Workshop for young people ("Gegen Vergessen, Für Demokratie e.V."), 06/2021)