Join Dr. Earle Havens, Curator of the Bibliotheca Fictiva of Literary and Historical Forgery, for a wild ride through history’s most spectacular fakes, frauds, and hoaxes — an underexplored niche rich with intriguing characters and improbable stories.
The Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection at The Johns Hopkins University is the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of fakes and forgeries; and, in this course, Dr. Havens will investigate evidence pulled from their collection of rare books and manuscripts. Over two sessions, you will track the long line of imposters throughout human history — both real and imagined — who reinvented themselves to overcome all manner of difficulties. Though their lives were perilous and their legacies complex; their imaginations, vigilant performances, rhetorical skills, and commitment to their cons were staggering. You will also uncover the history of the hoax, which relies heavily on technological shifts and changes in how people consume popular media.
Dr. Earle Havens is Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Director of the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book, in the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University, where he also teaches book history and media literacy. He has published two books on the subject of forgery and the history of “fake news”: Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries: Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection; and, with Walter Stephens, Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450 – 1800.
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