Friday, September 4 | 18:30 | Kinoteka 1
Debate following the screening of WE BELIEVE IN DINOSAURS, dir. Clayton Brown, Monica Long Ross
Language: Polish
The pandemic enhances problems and phenomena. On the one hand, conspiracy theories about the origins and potential cures for COVID-19 abound (“does the virus even exist?!”); on the other, people reach out to scientists hoping for accurate knowledge in these uncertain times. Scientists vs Fake News: which side is more likely to win this clash and why? How can we disarm conspiracy theories? “We Believe in Dinosaurs”, the starting point of this debate, recounts the tale of evolutionary denialism: a conspiracy theory particularly popular among fundamentalist Christians in the United States.
Moderator:
Agnieszka Lichnerowicz – TOK FM radio journalist and host of “Światopogląd”. Lichnerowicz covered EU summits as well as events in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and Georgia, and traveled to Egypt and Tunisia during the “Arab Spring”.
Guests:
Maciej Jarkowiec—reporter currently affiliated with Gazeta Wyborcza, former US correspondent at Przekrój and foreign editor at Wprost. Author of “Powrócę jako Piorun. Krótka historia Dzikiego Zachodu”.
Dr Paweł Boguszewski—neurobiologist, Head of the Laboratory of Behavioral Methods at the Nencki Institute. Boguszewski studies behaviors and emotions. Having studied biology at the University of Warsaw and Polish Academy of Science, he completed a postdoc at the Department of Psychology at Yale University in New Haven, US.
Tomasz Stawiszyński—Polish philosopher, opinion journalist and essayist. A graduate of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, he hosts several shows on the airwaves of TOK FM: “Godzina filozofów”, “Kwadrans filozofa” and “Wieczór Radia TOK FM”.
