Current Topics
Pictured: with Martijn Icks and Jennifer Keohane at the Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics conference, University of Vienna.
CARP VI: Attend our Sixth Conference in Greece, May 13-15, 2027 Psychological Warfare: Enduring Strategies, Evolving Battlefields: Psychological warfare targets what military force often cannot directly command: perception, emotion, judgment, and will. History as a Battleground of Memory: Who gets immortalized, who gets erased, and how reputations are rewritten across time The Anatomy of Character Attacks: How gender shapes who is targeted—and how attacks unfold Reputation Under Fire: Studying and Designing effective defenses against character assassination Teflon Characters: Why some reputations emerge unscathed—even stronger—after repeated attacks Psychological Weak Points: Individual traits and situational vulnerabilities that make people easier targets Diplomatic Insult and Character Attacks in IR: They may overlap, but they are different political weapons designed to achieve different goals. Context Matters: How character attacks operate similarly and differently across cultures, eras, and political systems |
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Conference at GMU, 2019
• Organized by CARP (Serge Samoilenko, conference chair)
• Hosted more than 60 participants and guests from 12 countries • Facilitated several research publications including the Handbook (2020) |
Conference in Amsterdam, 2019
• Organized and hosted by Martijn Icks and Edwina Hagen.
• Gathered scholars from fourteen countries. • Facilitated a forthcoming research publication as a Series (Amsterdam University Press) • Gave an impulse to new research collaboration |
Conference in Vienna, 2020
• Sponsored by the University of Vienna
• Chaired by Dr. Nadja Gernalzick • Gathered scholars from twelve countries • Facilitated an academic publication (an edited volume). See our announcements. |
5th CARP Conference, 2025
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