We are grateful to present our new collaboration with the House of Literature in Fredrikstad. FTU and the House of Literature have identified several leading experts from Norway, Ukraine, France, Finland, and Sweden, and the House of Literature is co-organizing the event.
On Monday, September 7, at 19:00, our next major Ukraine seminar will take place in Fredrikstad.
Speakers will include researcher Carl Heath from Sweden (RISE and the University of Gothenburg). He developed the educational materials on influence and disinformation for the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency.
The following speakers from Norway will address disinformation and influence: Paul M. H. Buvarp, Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI); Andreas Skjøld-Lorange, Head of Section at the Norwegian National Security Authority; and Bjørn Johan Berger, a volunteer working on political disinformation from Russia.
The seminar will also include a section on how the media distinguish between disinformation and facts. Secretary General Thibaut Bruttin of Reporters Without Borders, and Jessikka Aro, a well-known investigative journalist from Finland, will contribute to this section.
Part of the seminar will address psychological resilience among civilians, with contributions from Geir Jordet of the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and Unni Marie Heltne of the Center for Crisis Psychology at the University of Bergen.
We will focus on solutions to disinformation and influence, as we always highlight the role of technology and innovation.
The seminar will be inspired by the style of Dagsrevyen, with somewhat shorter presentations combined with interviews and expert debates.
The program is being put together by Editor-in-Chief Anna Blechingberg of FTU and Managing Director Roy Conradi Andersen of the House of Literature in Fredrikstad.