Programme – Sunday 11 May
Morning
09:30-10:15 Coffee
10:15-12:00 Texts II: False Authorship
Phillip Haberken (Boston University) ‘The Challenge of Verisimilitude and the “True Likeness” of Jan Hus in the German Reformation’
Marco Spreafico (Warburg Institute) ‘Un autre est moi: Faking and Forging Self-Translations in Early Modern Italy and France’
Giovanni Spalloni (CNR) ‘Lettere agli eretici: A Textual Forgery in the Turmoil of 1977’
Anthony Grafton (Princeton) ‘Joseph Scaliger and the Case of the Doctor’s Diploma’

Afternoon
13:30-15:15 Editions II: Pirating and Workarounds
Ester Camilla Peric (Scuola Superiore Meridionale) ‘Aldine Counterfeits: Reassessing the Lyon and Italian Imitations’
John Bidwell (Morgan Library & Museum) ‘Authorized Editions: Some Manuscript and Printed Authentication Statements’
François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles (Independent) ‘Counterfeiting Jansenist Bibles during the Reign of Louis XIV: The Brussels-Paris Connection’
Pritha Mukherjee (Reading) ‘Re-Evaluating Book Piracy and its Market in India’
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-17:30 Copies II: Forgers and Forgeries
Martyna Osuch(University of Warsaw Library) ‘Falsifying a Book’s Past: Alteration of Ownership Marks in Early Modern Warsaw Collections’
Nicolas Barker (independent) ‘The Oath of a Freeman Revisited’
Francesca Galligan (Bodleian Library) ‘A ‘perfected’ Mirour, with Anne Clifford’s annotations’
H.R. Woudhuysen (Oxford) ‘“England’s Foremost Book-Collector and Supreme Bibliographical Pontiff”: Some Notes on T.J. Wise’s bibliographies’

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