Faculty at Home Lecture Series: Jason Blazakis - Conspiracies and Disinformation

Conspiracies and Disinformation: New Challenges or Sources of Timeless Turmoil?

Jason M. Blazakis will discuss the international security challenges posed by conspiracies and disinformation and how these have manifested during the COVID-19 pandemic. He will also share some observations from his own research and that of the Middlebury Institute Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism.

Jason Blazakis (B.A., University of Mississippi; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, where he focuses on threat financing, sanctions, violent extremism, and special operations. He is the director of the Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism and oversees the center’s research on domestic terrorism, terrorism finance, recruitment, propaganda, and the use of special operations to counter transnational threats. From 2008–2018, he was director of the Counterterrorism Finance and Designations Office at the U.S. Department of State.

Hosted by Sarah Stroup, Associate Professor of Political Science.

Please visit the Faculty at Home website for more information and to register for this free event.