Evento 10: A Conversation Between Jona Lendering and Jan W. Bok

Fake News and Soft Power Persuasion

Everyone seems to appreciate the ancient world, and everyone seems to know more than archaeologists, philologists, and historians. Since the early 1970s, there has been a flood of unprofessional publications, and the rise of the internet has enabled the reintroduction of already refuted ideas. In terms of its ability to inform the general public about new discoveries, the study of the ancient world is a disappointment. Fortunately, there are lessons to be learned about proactive forms of scientific communication.

Jona Lendering studied history in Leiden and has since written about archaeology, history, and ancient languages. He published several books and created Livius.org, which, before Wikipedia, was the largest website on Rome, Greece, Persia, and other civilizations of the distant past. He currently maintains a daily blog on ancient history: MainzerBeobachter.com.

Jan W. Bok is a faculty member at the Global College, IE University, Madrid. Previously, he taught Political Philosophy at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and World Language and Literature at the Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy. He graduated from various academic institutions, including Erasmus University Rotterdam (History and Arts, Philosophy) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Political Science) in Paris.

Event in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish.

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