O4SR SkeptiCamp 2024 – Misinformation, Disinformation and How We Are Misled
August 23rd to 25th – Speakers all day Saturday August 24
Friday, August 23 is our Skeptics in the Pub meet-up starting at 5 PM
McMenamins 19th Street Cafe
1485 E 19th Ave, Eugene, OR
Saturday, August 24th – Doors open at 9:30 AM and talks begin at 10 AM
Hilyard Community Center – Multipurpose Room
2580 Hilyard Street
Eugene, OR 97405
Speakers include
• Melanie Trecek-King, Science Communicator of the Thinking is Power website
• Dr. Steven Strauss, Biotechnology Outreach, Oregon State University, School of Forestry
What is the GMO Controversy Really About?
• Dr. Ellen Peters, University of Oregon, Center for Science Communications Research, and
author of the book Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers
• Dr. Alison Carter, University of Oregon, Department of Anthropology on Pseudoarchaeology
• Dr. Daniel Lowd, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Computer and Information Science
Artificial Intelligence
• Susan Gerbic, founder of Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia
Saturday evening no-host dinner – location TBA
Sunday, August 25 field trip – Tour the Center for Advanced Materials Characterization (CAMCOR) in the Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories on the University of Oregon campus. https://camcor.uoregon.edu/
PREREGISTRAION: Email O4SR.contact@gmail.com
This event is free and open to the public. Seating will be limited, so we recommend that you pre-register. We will need a head count for dinner reservations. The tour of the CAMCOR lab will be limited to 25 people, so it is important to pre-register for the tour.
Indicate which you plan to attend: 1. Friday Pub Meetup 2. Saturday talks 3. Saturday dinner 4. Sunday tour.
SATURDAY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! – If you can help, Contact Jeanine DeNoma at O4SR.contact@gmail.com
We need volunteers for the following jobs on Saturday at SkeptiCamp
Set-up tables and chairs starting at 8:45 AM
Registration table
Clean up, put chairs away, and sweep at the end of the day
Help with A-V
Kitchen help with coffee and clean up
Questions: Email to O4SR.contact@gmail.com