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SITE Seminar | Sleepless nights, safer roads? Night-time air alerts and behavioral risk avoidance
4/21/2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On April 21, 2026, we welcome Dariia Mykhailyshyna to present new evidence from Ukraine on how exposure to night-time air alerts affects next-day traffic safety. Using administrative data from Lviv (2022–2024), the study disentangles fatigue-related impairment from threat-induced risk avoidance and shows how acute danger can shift everyday behavior in measurable ways.
SITE Seminar | Propaganda and disinformation as components of hybrid warfare: The case of the Russian–Ukrainian war
5/5/2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On May 5, 2026, we welcome Nina Khairova to discuss how misinformation escalates into coordinated propaganda campaigns in digital environments, and what this implies for detecting manipulative information in the context of hybrid warfare. The seminar introduces a framework for AI-based misinformation detection and uses the Russian–Ukrainian war as a case study to illustrate why context-aware approaches are essential.
SITE Seminar | The political consequences of energy price shocks - Evidence from Germany
5/12/2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On May 12, 2026, we welcome Jan Christoph Steckel to discuss how household electricity price shocks shape democratic attitudes and party support in Germany during the 2022–2023 energy crisis, drawing on evidence from a four-wave panel survey and billing-system–driven variation.