Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce that on Saturday and Sunday, February 8-9, our campus will host the Department of Philosophy's Archaeology in a Post-Truth World Interdisciplinary Conference.   The popularity of false narratives about history (alternative history) and archaeology (pseudoarchaeology) poses a unique threat. In a post-truth world, false stories — e.g. that…

Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce that on Saturday and Sunday, February 8-9, our campus will host the Department of Philosophy's Archaeology in a Post-Truth World Interdisciplinary Conference.   The popularity of false narratives about history (alternative history) and archaeology (pseudoarchaeology) poses a unique threat. In a post-truth world, false stories — e.g. that…