Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project Conference

We plan a two-day conference at the California Institute of Technology on January 16-17, 2025, to discuss research regarding information and misinformation in the 2024 U.S. 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. While we will likely focus on research from social sciences and computer science, we welcome research from all disciplines and methodologies. Our main focus will be on the 2024 U.S. elections, but we welcome research proposals from previous elections or elections in other nations.

If you would like to attend the conference and present your research, please submit a 250-500 word abstract by November 15, 2024 to lcssp@hss.caltech.edu. Some research proposals will be invited for conference talks, others may be invited for poster presentations (if you have a preference, please indicate that in your email). We have limited funding to support travel for conference participants, in particular graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty.

Preliminary conference agenda:

January 16

Morning Session: Information and how it mattered in the 2024 election

• Plenary talk
• Research presentations

Afternoon Session: Information and voter views of election integrity

• Plenary talk
• Election official roundtable
• Research presentations

Reception and poster session

January 17

Morning Session: Misinformation, conspiratorial thinking, and disinformation in the 2024 election

• Plenary talk
• Research presentations

Afternoon Session: Improving the quality of political discourse

• Research presentations

Conference wrap-up