TESTIMONY - an interdisciplinary approach
29-30 May 2025
Faculty of Philosophy
204 Splaiul Independenței
Thursday, May 29th (hybrid), Titu Maiorescu Hall
10:00 am – 10:10 am Opening remarks
10: 10 – 10:50 Carlotta Gallani, Upsalla University, Testimonial knowledge through unsafe testimony. Notes on Lackey’s reply to Goldberg
10:50-11:05 Coffee Break
11:05 – 12:05 Constantin Stoenescu, University of Bucharest, Testimony and Nonpropositional Knowledge (keynote lecture)
12:05 -14 Lunch Break
14:05- 14:45 Rashad Rehman, Center for Bioethics, Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH, The Problem of Intertestimonial Disagreement: A Case Study
14:45 – 15:25 James Gillard, University of Texas at Austin, A Testimonial Theory of When To Believe LLM Outputs (online)
15:25 – 16:05 Aisha Qadoos, University of Birmingham, Bearing Witness (online)
16:05 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:10 Ileana Dascălu, University of Bucharest, Digital storytelling and the experiential turn in understanding cultural heritage
17: 10 -17 50 Ionuț Tudor, University of Bucharest, The Testimony of human rights
Friday, May 30th (online)
16:30 – 17:10 Sandra Brânzaru, University of Bucharest, Testimony and knowing what it’s like –VR and bots
17:20- 18:00 Iulia- Mihaela Gheorghe, West University of Timișoara, Testimonial Narratives in the Digital Age: Exploring the Impact of Digital Addiction and Digital Abilities on Student Performance
18:10 – 18:50 Laida Arbizu Aguirre, University of the Basque Country, Trauma, Power, and the Epistemic Double Bind: Resisting Credibility Reconfigurations in GBV Testimony
19:00- 20:00 Duncan Pritchard, University of California, Irvine, Understanding Fake News, Keynote lecture
20:00- 20:10 Concluding remarks