Triangle SkeptiCamp 2024
Saturday – Main Conference Day at John Chavis Community Center
Times | Description | Presenter(s) | Video |
9:45am – 10:00am | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Jeff Gehlbach | |
10:00am – 11:30am | Presentation Telling Stories with Wikipedia | Susan Gerbic | |
10:35am – 11:40am | Workshop Being the Person Your Friends Come To About Weird Beliefs | Susan Gerbic | |
11:45am – 12:15pm | Presentation How to Challenge Your Views Without Looking Like an Idiot | Coleman Watts | |
12:30pm – 1:45pm | Lunch Break (on your own) | Group | – |
1:45pm – 2:15pm | Presentation Disgust: How an Overlooked Emotion Meddles With Our Minds | Erika Engelhaupt | |
2:15pm – 2:30pm | Book signing Get your own copy of Gory Details, signed by author Erika Engelhaupt! | Erika Engelhaupt | – |
2:30pm – 3:00pm | Presentation Strategies for Investigating Mysteries | Kenny Biddle | |
3:05pm – 3:35pm | Presentation The UFO Presentation THEY Don’t Want You to Attend | Rob Palmer | |
3:35pm – 3:40pm | Bonus Finding Meaning Through Science: An Impromptu Soliloquy | Faith Newsome Rodriguez | |
3:40pm – 4:10pm | Presentation Visual Illusions: When Perception Differs From Reality | Eric Harris | |
4:15pm – 4:25pm | Lightning Talk Talking About the Big Stuff Podcast | Michael Cole | |
4:30pm – 4:40pm | Lightning Talk Adults Read Stuff They Wrote as Kids | Rob Palmer | |
4:45pm – 5:15pm | Presentation Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds | Melanie Trecek-King | |
5:15pm – 5:30pm | Closing Keynote and Farewell | Jeff Gehlbach | |
5:45pm – until | Post-Event Social Hang at Transfer Co. Ongoing fellowship over dinner and drinks at Transfer Co. Food Hall. | Group | – |
Sunday – Investigative Field Trip with Kenny Biddle
CFI Chief Investigator Kenny Biddle and fellow conferees toured a reputedly haunted local attraction.
Times | Description | Location |
1:00pm – 4:00pm | Investigative Field Trip to Mordecai Historic Park We met at the visitor center of Mordecai Historic Park in downtown Raleigh, the site of “the most haunted house in Raleigh”, where we toured Mordecai House. | Mordecai Historic Park |
4:00pm – until | Post-Investigation Social Hang After the guided tour we adjourned to a nearby establishment to discuss how many ghosts we thought we saw in evidence. | William & Company |
Friday – Pre-Event Social Event at Transfer Co. Food Hall
Evening social event with organizers and speakers.
Times | Description | Location |
6:30pm – 9:00pm | Pub Night at Transfer Co. Triangle SkeptiCamp organizers, conferees, and speakers gathered for a social hang the evening before the main conference day. | Transfer Co. Food Hall |
Participation in all aspects of Triangle SkeptiCamp is subject to the code of conduct.