Seminar MWP Masterclass 'Proof of absence: historical work on Medieval and modern blood libels' Add to calendar 2025-10-02 10:00 2025-10-02 12:00 Europe/Rome MWP Masterclass 'Proof of absence: historical work on Medieval and modern blood libels' Sala del Camino Villa Salviati - Castle YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Oct 02 2025 10:00 - 12:00 CEST Sala del Camino, Villa Salviati - Castle Organised by Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies In the framework of the Max Weber Programme Masterclass Series 2025/2026, this event features a discussion with Professor Alison Frank Johnson (Harvard). In this master class, Alison Frank Johnson will share some of the challenges of working on topics where deliberate misinformation has been worked into the historical record - in this case, blood libel accusations from the 15th century to the present. We will talk about how to manage the logical impossibility and moral necessity of proving that something never happened.