Board

Founders

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  Remco Breuker

  Professor of Korean Studies

  Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University

  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).

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  Jacqueline Hylkema

  Assistant Professor of Cultural History · Senior Scaliger Fellow

  Leiden University College · Scaliger Institute, Leiden University Libraries

  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.