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International Society for Forgery Studies

Society and journal

Board

Presentation preview. Remco Breuker and Jacqueline Hylkema are the founders. The editorial and advisory board lists below are fictional examples.

Founders

  • Portrait of Remco Breuker

    Remco Breuker

    Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University

    Research interest
    Forgery and the political uses of the past in Koryŏ Korea.
    Published on
    Forging the Truth: Creative Deception and National Identity in Medieval Korea (2008), on the forged Ten Injunctions of the Koryŏ dynasty

    Historian of Korea and Northeast Asia. His study Forging the Truth: Creative Deception and National Identity in Medieval Korea (2008) examines the forged Ten Injunctions of the Koryŏ dynasty. His books include Establishing a Pluralist Society in Medieval Korea (Brill, 2010). He is one of the translators of Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea: A Translation of the Samguk yusa (2025).

    Professor of Korean Studies

  • Portrait of Jacqueline Hylkema

    Jacqueline Hylkema

    Leiden University College · Scaliger Institute, Leiden University Libraries

    Research interest
    Forgery in the print culture of the Dutch Republic and Britain, 1550–1800.
    Published on
    Forgery in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century print

    Cultural historian of early-modern print culture in the Dutch Republic and Britain. She has published on forgery in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century print, curated the Leiden University Library exhibition Books, Crooks and Readers: The Seduction of Forgery (1600–1800) (2014), and works on Mapping the Fake Republic (1550–1800), a study of forgery in the Dutch Republic and a new Special Collection of Dutch fakes and forgeries at Leiden University Library.

    Assistant Professor of Cultural History · Senior Scaliger Fellow

Editorial board

  • Adaeze Obi

    University of Lagos

    Research interest
    Notarial practice and the trade in certified documents
    Published on
    Notarial certification, the Donation of Constantine, pseudepigrapha, technical reports in historical argument

    Editor

  • Elias Brumberg

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Research interest
    Interpolated charters and paper evidence in court
    Published on
    Watermark testimony in the Rotterdam trial, interpolated charters, inserted leaves, simulated wear

    Managing editor

  • Anneke de Vries

    Netherlands Forensic Institute

    Research interest
    Handwriting attribution and the dating of inks
    Published on
    Script corpora, handwriting comparison standards, dating iron-gall ink

    Editor

  • Wenqing Zhao

    Fudan University

    Research interest
    How editors and authenticators come to accept a hoax
    Published on
    A twentieth-century documentary hoax, fibre analysis of false manuscripts

    Editor

Advisory board

Appointed for six-year terms.

  • Anaïs Charbonnier

    Université Paris Nanterre

    Research interest
    Forgery before the French courts, 1670–1810
    Published on
    Forgery prosecutions and notarial records in early modern France

    Advisory board member

  • Masato Ishida

    Kyushu University

    Research interest
    Falsified colophons in Persian and Japanese manuscripts
    Published on
    Detecting falsified colophons

    Advisory board member

  • Ingrid Sørensen

    Museum of Cultural History, Oslo

    Research interest
    Runestones, sagas, and the national past in nineteenth-century Norway
    Published on
    Runic inscriptions and invented traditions

    Advisory board member

  • Adéla Zemanová

    Charles University

    Research interest
    The Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora manuscripts and their defenders
    Published on
    The Ossian papers, Czech manuscript forgeries

    Advisory board member

The International Society for Forgery Studies is developing the journal. Board appointments and editorial policies have yet to be announced.