Dipartimento distudi umanistici

The Social History of TruthInternational Conference

Thursday, February 27, 2020470 Stephens Hall

Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and SocietyUniversity of California, Berkeley

Info: rita.lucarelli@berkeley.edu

Programme4 pm: Opening 

4.15 pm: Rita Lucarelli (UC Berkeley) “Living according to Maat”: Truth, Knowledge

and Wisdom in ancient Egypt 

4.45 pm: Massimo Pinto (Aldo Moro University, Bari) The Truth of Ancient Texts: Textual

Scholarship and Forgeries 

5.15 pm: Co�ee break 

5.30 pm: Francesco Paolo de Ceglia (Aldo Moro University, Bari)

Do Corpses Bleed in the Presence of Their Murderer? A Social History of the Limits of Nature

 

6.00 pm: Massimo Mazzotti (UC Berkeley) A Galileo Forgery: Authentication and

the Power of Fakes 

6.30 pm - 7.00 pm: Conclusions

Department of History