How do We Search for Truth in a World Saturated with Illusions?
There's a Puppet Show for that, and the Author of Don Quixote Wrote it! with Professor David Castillo
Friday, January 24 | 12-1 pm
Central Library | Ring of Knowledge
Free and Open to the Public
The Grosvenor Room @ the Central Library Presents: THE UB HUMANITIES SERIES
Conspiracy theories, viral social media fibs, manipulative deepfakes, polarizing infotainment, attention merchants, demagogues... Does truth stand a chance in our age of inflammatory media? You might be surprised at what Cervantes has to say about it!
About David Castillo
David R. Castillo is Professor of Spanish and co-director of the Center for Information Integrity at SUNY Buffalo where he served as Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures from 2009 to 2015 and Director of the Humanities Institute from 2016 to 2022.
Castillo is a recipient of the UB Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement. His work in early modern literature and cultural history focuses on the damaging effects of inflationary media, including the proliferation of deceptive illusions and manipulative disinformation, and what we can learn from the “reality literacy” strategies of Miguel de Cervantes and other authors of the Spanish Golden Age to help us survive our post-truth age.
