Seminar Abstract

The Centre of Excellence for National Security is organising its CENS Workshop on DRUMS 2023: The Evolving Landscape of DRUMS. This two-day workshop will examine how the collective efforts of government, civil society, social media companies and journalistic efforts contribute towards effective countermeasures and mitigative strategies in tackling disinformation and misinformation.

Who Should Attend

Policy-makers, academics, and other experts who are: (a) concerned about the issues of disinformation, online falsehoods and influence operations being a national security threat; (b) interested in the social implications of these issues; and (c) would like to learn how states and societies can address them.

Confirmed Panels & Speakers (as of 22 September 2023)

Keynote: Chris Riley, Head, Strategic Communications Unit, Public Diplomacy Division (PDD), NATO

Panel 1: Safeguarding Electoral Integrity

• Speaker 1 (TBC)
• Nuurrianti Jalli, Assistant Professor, School of Media and Strategic Communications, Oklahoma State University
• Dominika Hajdu, Policy Director, Centre for Democracy & Resilience, GLOBSEC

Panel 2: The Global Struggle of Narratives: Insights for Strategic Communications

• Una Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, Riga Stradins University China Studies Centre; Head, Asia Research Programme, Latvian Institute of International Affairs
• Speaker 2 (TBC)
• Mikael Tofvesson, Head of Operations, Swedish Psychological Defence Agency

Panel 3: Sophisticated Generative AI tools: New Battleground of Disinformation, Fact-Checking and Governance

• John Kelly, Founder & CEO, Graphika
• Speaker 2 (TBC)
• Charlie Beckett, Professor of Practice; Director of Polis, Polis/LSE JournalismAI project, London School of Economics and Political Science

Panel 4: Counter-DRUMS Measures

• Donato Vese, Faculty of Law, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
• Jun Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen
• Giedrius Sakalauskas, Director, Res Publica – Civic Resilience Center 

Panel 5: Information, Media, and Health Literacy for Combating DRUMS

• Damien Wang, Senior Librarian (Outreach), Programmes and Services, Archives & Libraries Group, National Library Board
• John William Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, Tsuda University
• Jane Lytvynenko, Freelance Reporter