Members

University of Lagos

Notarial practice and the trade in certified documents.

Charles University

The Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora manuscripts and their defenders.

Universidade de São Paulo

Invented pedigrees for national museum collections in Brazil.

Université Paris Nanterre

Forgery before the French courts, 1670–1810.

Netherlands Forensic Institute

Handwriting attribution and the dating of inks.

University of Bucharest

Conspiracy narratives and the forged documents that circulate as their proof.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Interpolated charters and paper evidence in court.

Uppsala University

Pastiche compositions passed off as lost works, from violin sonatas to streaming spoofs.

Cardiff University

Monastic forgeries in Welsh and English cartularies.

University of Cambridge

Fabricated data and the nineteenth-century cases that shaped scientific fraud.

Seoul National University

Counterfeit seals in late Chosŏn administration.

Museum of Cultural History, Oslo

Runestones, sagas, and the national past in nineteenth-century Norway.

Università degli Studi di Milano

Forged vintage certificates and counterfeit labels in the wine trade.

Leiden University

Forgery in the print culture of the Dutch Republic and Britain, 1550–1800.

University of Ghana

Claimed royal identities and colonial-era impostors.

Universidad de Salamanca

Forged relics, lives of saints, and apocryphal letters in Iberian church history.

Universität Wien

Handwriting corpora and retracted research.

Jagiellonian University

Romantic-era literary hoaxes and how museums came to hold them.

Kyushu University

Falsified colophons in Persian and Japanese manuscripts.

University of Oxford

Letters and treatises falsely ascribed to ancient philosophers.

American University of Beirut

Counterfeit coinage and the credibility of money in Mediterranean trade.

KU Leuven

Workshop copies sold as originals and the invented histories of ownership behind them.

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Synthetic video and audio in election campaigns, and how viewers judge them.

Leiden University

Forgery and the political uses of the past in Koryŏ Korea.

Sorbonne Université

False identity papers and the policing of impostors.

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Forged Greek inscriptions in nineteenth-century collections.

Universität Tübingen

Fabricated prehistoric finds and the collectors who bought them.

Universidade de Lisboa

Fabricated descent and the machines that simulated signatures.

Fudan University

How editors and authenticators come to accept a hoax.