# Heavenly Imperfection: Galileo's Discovery of Sunspots #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 4, 2013** 08:30AM - 04:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel • Rosovsky Hall • Room: Beren Hall 52 Mount Auburn Street • Cambridge** **Heavenly Imperfection: Galileo's Discovery of Sunspots** **Friday, October 4, 2013** A conference cosponsored by the Consulate General of Italy in Boston, the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities at Harvard, and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard **8:30 am to 4:30 pm** Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel • Rosovsky Hall • Room: Beren Hall 52 Mount Auburn Street • Cambridge **CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS:** **Peter Galison**, Harvard University **Mario Biagioli**, UC Davis School of Law ***"Moving images for unstable objects: Galileo's pictorial engagement with Change”*** **Paolo Galluzzi**, Museo Galileo, Institute and Museum of the History of Science ***"Spotted Felines and Spotted Sun. The Lincei and Galileo's Istoria"*** **Franco Giudice**, University of Bergamo ***"Conforme alle posizioni de i Pitagorici e del Copernico":*** ***Galileo's cosmological view from Sidereus to the Letters on Sunspots*** **Albert Van Helden**, Rice University and University of Utrecht ***"Sunspots after Galileo and Scheiner"*** **Eileen Reeves**, Princeton University ***"Summer School: Galileo's Research Agenda of June 1612"*** **Nick Wilding**, Georgia State University ***“Science, Intercepted”*** ***"THE GREATEST WITNESS"*** ***Theatrical Reflections on the Solar Spots*** A performance by students of the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training \*\*\* **5:00 pm** **MUSICAL PERFORMANCE, "Galileo’s Muse" by "Listening to History"** Science Center – Lecture Hall A • 1 Oxford Street \*\*\* **6:00 pm - 7:00 pm** **RECEPTION** Special Exhibitions Gallery, Science Center 251 Seating is limited. See also:- [ Other ](/filter_by/other) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/node/74931/event-feed.ics) Copy link link