2017 – Pasco, Washington Conference

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2017 – Pasco, Washington Conference

Experts from around the world met in Pasco, WA for the first US conference on the Shroud of Turin since 2014. Here are over 40 papers covering aspects of science, medicine, art and history. Watch the conference videos as they share their research.

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Category	Presenter(s)	Talk Title	Length	Video
History & Theology	Robert Siefker	Overview of the Shroud	60 min	Video
History & Theology	Andrew Dalton	The Crown of Thorns: The Paradoxical Lordship of the King of Kings	25 min	N/A
History & Theology	Fred Baltz	Exposition of John 20	30 min	Video
History & Theology	Cheryl White	The Role of Epistemology in Approaching Truth in the Shroud of Turin	45 min	Video
Scientific Analysis	Pietro Pescetelli	Physical Cause of Jesus' Death	40 min	Video
History & Theology	Dean Schulz	Identifying the Tomb of Jesus for Turin Shroud Research	20 min	Video
History & Theology	Emanuela Marinelli	The Mandylion in Constantinople: Literary and Iconographic Sources	30 min	Video
History & Theology	Mario Latendresse	Who Saw the Mandylion and What was its Size?	30 min	Video
History & Theology	Jack Markwardt	Geoffrey de Charny's Acquisition of the Shroud of Turin: Texts, Fictions, and Forgeries	60 min	Video
History & Theology	Alessandro Piana (read by Michela Marinelli)	The Holy Shroud and Othon de La Roche: Notes for a Working Hypothesis on the "Missing Years" (1204-1356)	35 min	Video
History & Theology	Mario Latendresse	There is No Evidence that Othon de la Roche Acquired the Shroud of Turin	35 min	Video
History & Theology	Mario Latendresse	The Shroud of Turin and the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris	45 min	Video
History & Theology	Cesar Barta; Jorge Manuel Rodriguez Almenar	The Image of Edessa Included the Whole Body but Only its Empty Reliquary Arrived at Paris	30 min	Video
History & Theology	Jack Markwardt	The Simony Theory: Passage of the Shroud from Constantinople to Lirey	30 min	Video
History & Theology	Jack Markwardt	Avignon and the Shroud of Turin: Authenticity Confirmed	30 min	Video
Panel Discussions	Panel	Panel discussion regarding the day's presentations	45 min	N/A
History & Theology	Giorgio Bracaglia	Uncovering the Frailties of Ecclesiastical Authorities in the Holy Shroud Guild Archives	30 min	Video
Scientific Analysis	Marzia Boi (presented by Cesar Barta)	Pollens on the Shroud and the Sudarium of Oviedo	35 min	Video
Scientific Analysis	Gianni Barcaccia	Sources of DNA on the Shroud	35 min	Video
Scientific Analysis	Janis Winchester	Use of the VP-8 Image Analyzer with a Photograph of the Shroud Exhibiting 3D Results	20 min	Video
Scientific Analysis	Paolo Di Lazzaro & Daniele Murra	The "Other Images" on the Shroud of Turin	30 min	Video
Radiocarbon & Dating	Giulio Fanti	Numismatic Dating of the Turin Shroud through Analysis of Byzantine Coins	45 min	Video
Image Formation	Gianmaria Concheri; Giulio Fanti; Sergio Rodella	Hypothesis of Face-Cloth Wrapping: Experimental & Numerical Results	5 min	Video
Radiocarbon & Dating	Joe Marino	Politics of the Shroud C-14 Dating	60 min	Video
Radiocarbon & Dating	Joe Marino	Invisible Reweave on the Shroud: Evidence For	30 min	Video
Radiocarbon & Dating	Mark Antonacci	Was the Shroud Invisibly Rewoven with Foreign Material?	20 min	Video
Radiocarbon & Dating	Giulio Fanti	Dating Techniques Other than Carbon Dating	40 min	Video
Radiocarbon & Dating	Bob Rucker	Statistical Analysis of the 1988 Carbon Dating	40 min	Video
Radiocarbon & Dating	Bob Rucker	The Neutron Absorption Hypothesis	35 min	Video
History & Theology	Russ Breault	Art, Icon, or Relic	90 min	Video
Panel Discussions	Panel	Panel discussion regarding the day's presentations	45 min	Video
Image Formation	Giulio Fanti	Image Characteristics	25 min	Video
Scientific Analysis	Paolo Di Lazzaro; A. Di Lascio; P. Iacomussi; M. Missori; D. Murra	Explaining the Color of the Blood on the Shroud	15 min	Video
Scientific Analysis	Jose Carlos Godinez	Chemistry of the Image Imprinting Process	30 min	Video
Image Formation	Mark Antonacci	Naturalistic Processes for Image Formation	15 min	Video
Image Formation	Bob Rucker	Role of Radiation in Image Formation	45 min	Video
Image Formation	R. Campion; Giulio Fanti	Critical Analysis About the Radiation Direction in Image Formation	25 min	Video
Image Formation	Giuseppe Baldacchini	Characteristics of the Image and Its Formation	30 min	Video
Image Formation	Mario Latendresse	A Geometric Mechanism for Image Formation	30 min	Video
Image Formation	Paolo Di Lazzaro & Daniele Murra	Linen Coloration by Pulsed Radiation: A Review	30 min	Video
Scientific Analysis	Tony Fleming	Chromosome Acting as Loop Antenna for Colorization of the Shroud	20 min	Video
Image Formation	Giulio Fanti	Image Formation by Corona Discharge	40 min	Video
Image Formation	Michael Schaffer	Experimental Effects of Coronal Discharges on Linen	15 min	Video
Image Formation	Chuck Rogers	Free Electron Model of Image Formation	30 min	Video
Image Formation	Arthur Lind	Image Formation by Charged Nuclear Particles	30 min	Video
Image Formation	Mark Antonacci	Evidence for Image Formation by a Cloth Collapse Model	30 min	Video
Image Formation	Bob Rucker	Problems with the Cloth Collapse Hypothesis	15 min	Video
History & Theology	Tristan Casabianca	Do We Really Need New Evidence and Arguments About the Shroud?	20 min	Video
Panel Discussions	Panel	Panel discussion regarding the day's presentations	45 min	Video
History & Theology	Mark Antonacci	Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go From Here?	20 min	Video

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