Hi everyone,

This Friday from 15:00 - 16:00 we will have our third online Hot Politics Lab meeting! We are very excited to have Julia van Weert as our speaker. Julia van Weert is Professor of Health Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication (ASCoR). She will talk about how effective communication can increase compliance with government related COVID-policies.

To join this Zoom webinar session, you can use the following link: https://zoom.us/j/839478901https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fj%2F839478901&data=02%7C01%7Cm.d.homan%40uva.nl%7C328a388a15de49f81d5808d7d158d798%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C1%7C0%7C637208051833734697&sdata=fli3jAKWE77wbdeU2nlWrExzFcZwZRzMDtqo%2FJFUc1U%3D&reserved=0. This is the same link we use every Friday.

We can also already announce the speaker of next week and the week after:

* April 10: Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U Groningen) will give a short lecture followed by a Q&A about the consequences of communicating uncertainty on trust (https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/03/17/1913678117.short?rss=1https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fcontent%2Fearly%2F2020%2F03%2F17%2F1913678117.short%3Frss%3D1&data=02%7C01%7CB.N.Bakker%40uva.nl%7Ce74b8085d7da4a1129b708d7d19137dc%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C1%7C0%7C637208293946351599&sdata=n9VERBv55iqzlvYN5%2BuU1tBPLCrwe3X0%2B%2Bw3t3TI6OA%3D&reserved=0) and some recent follow-up work about communicating uncertainty around COVID-19.

* April 17: Shana Gadarian (Syracuse University - https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/psc/Gadarian,_Shana/) will give a talk on the role of anxiety in politics. She will also talk about her recent work with Sara Goodman Wallace and Tom Pepinsky on coronavirus (here: https://tompepinsky.com/2020/03/29/the-geography-of-covid-19-and-individual-... ).

If you missed the last two online lab sessions or you just want to watch them again, below the video and audio links of the last two sessions:

* Micheal Bang Peterson (March 20th): video https://youtu.be/KGAq8m38yg0 and audio https://soundcloud.com/hotpoliticslab/online-hot-politics-lab-meetings-micha...

* Stuart Soroka (March 27th): video https://youtu.be/96m3cdgUY_I and audio https://soundcloud.com/hotpoliticslab/online-hot-politics-lab-meetings-stuar... Also see our online lab meetings archive at http://www.hotpolitics.eu/online-lab-meetings-videos/.

Hope to "see" you all this Friday!

Best,

Maaike Homan PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Room B10.01 [logo hot politics]