The Prevalence and Degree of Infiltration of Russian Disinformation on the Russian-Ukrainian War in the Western Information Space

*This event will take place in French only

9:15 am   Opening Remarks and Presentation of Research and Data for the NATO Dyad Countries Surveyed

• Research team lead by Laurent Borzillo, Ph.D.
• Pr. Stéphane Roussel (ENAP)

9:30 am  Narratives Related to the Russian-Ukrainian War in Democratic Societies: Content and Arguments Used / Comparison with Other Themes

Moderator : Professeure Magdalena Dembińska (Université de Montréal) ; POL-CAN ^*tbc*

• Pr. Florian Töpfl (Université de Passau)
• Pr. Justin Massie (UQAM)
• Marco Munier (UQAM)
• Balthazar Stengelin (McGill)
• Susanne Aschi-Glesius, consule générale d’Allemagne Megan Minnion (OTAN) ^*tbc*

11:00 am  Coffee Break

11:30 am  Vectors of Pro-Russian Discourse in the West / The Receptiveness of Democratic Societies to Russian Narratives and Fake News

Moderator : Zachary Lemyre (Université de Montréal)

• Anthony Seaboyer, directeur du Centre for Security, Armed Forces and Society (CSAFS; RMC) Nicolas-François Perron (UQAM)
• Maud Quessard, directrice du domaine Espace Euratlantique (IRSEM)
• Pr. Anatoliy Gruzd (Toronto Metropolitan University)
• Aurélie Bonal, cheffe de la délégation européenne au Canada ^*tbc*
• Julie Renaud (UQAM) ^*tbc*

1:00 pm  Lunch

2:00 pm  Possible Measures and Actions to Counter the Proliferation of pro-Russian Narratives, of Both Russian and non-Russian Origin

Moderator: Mathieu Gariepy, (Université Laval) ^*tbc*

• Pr. Nicole Jackson (Université Simon Fraser)
• Khrystyna Holynska, Ph.D. (RAND)
• Pr. David Morin (Université de Sherbrooke
• Oana Goga, Ph.D (INRIA)
• Franziska B. Keller, Ph.D. (University of Bern)
• Pr. Reihaneh Rabbany (McGill) ^*tbc*

3:30pm  Closing Remarks

• Laurent Borzillo, Ph.D (ENAP)