Day 1 - Forgeries, Fakes, and Counterfeits in Print Culture: Texts, Editions, Copies
Programme – Friday 10 May
Morning
09:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00-10:15 Opening Remarks
10:15-12:00 Texts I: False Texts
Georgijs Dunajevs (Würzburg – National Library of Latvia) ‘Faux Completeness over Textual Authenticity: A Case Study of the Taiping guangji’
Avni Chag (VU Amsterdam) ‘Writing in the Name of God: Implications of Pseudepigrapha in the Śikṣāpatrī’
Andrea Brondino (Warwick) ‘From Fiction to Fake, and Back Again: Reframing the Protocols of Zion in The Prague Cemetery of Umberto Eco’
Enrico Emanuele Prodi (Cagliari) ‘The Artemidorus Papyrus between the Ivory Tower and the Public Arena’

Afternoon
13:30-15:15 Editions I: Fake Imprints
Paolo Sachet (IHR, Geneva) ‘“Ad Catacumbas”: Rome and its Historical Sites as Fake Imprints in Protestant Publications’
Hadrien Dami (IHR, Geneva) ‘From Pierre Aubert to Pierre Marteau: Geneva as Fake Imprint and Hub for Fake Imprints in the Seventeenth Century’
Jacqueline Hylkema (Leiden) ‘The Politics of Printing Forgery in the Dutch Republic, from the States Bible to Spinoza’
Pierre Delseardt (Antwerp) ‘Paratext and Persuasion: Fake Imprints as Political Statements in the Habsburg Low Countries (1781–1793)’
15:15 Coffee Break
15:45-17:30 Copies I: Forgers and Forgeries
Geri Della Rocca de Candal (Oxford) ‘Untangling a Case of Double Forgery: A Unique Copy of the 1499 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili’
Katharina Mähler (Herzog August Bibliothek) ‘On Closer Inspection: Suspicious Details of Historic Bookbindings’
Paul Needham (Princeton) ‘The Rome Editions of the Columbus Letter 1493: Collecting, Thieving, and Forging’
Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) ‘Forging Print and Provenance: Deception and Detection in the Case of Galileo’

For general admission (£45 for either or both days) please register here: ticketlab.co.uk/event/id/23812#
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Date: 10 May 2024, 9:30
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organiser contact email address: geri.dellaroccadecandal@gmail.com
Part of: 2-Day Conference - Forgeries, Fakes, and Counterfeits in Print Culture: Texts, Editions, Copies
Booking required?: Required
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Cost: For either or both days: General admission £45 / Student admission £25
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark