Friday March 7
4-4:30pm Margaret Graves and Felipe Rojas | Welcome, Introduction
4:30-5pm Ken Lapatin | “Making and Faking the Minoans”
5:15-5:45pm Miruna Achim | “Freaks, Fakes, Jewels, and the Invention of Mesoamerica’s Most Ancient Culture”
(Moderated by Jeff Moser)
6-6:45pm Reception
Saturday March 8
10:30-11am Martin Berger | “Plaster Casts, Human Zoos, and Hybrid Cultures: Contextualizing Authenticity in European Ethnographic Museums ca. 1900”
11:15-11:45 Kathrin Colburn and Elizabeth Dospěl Williams | “Marketing Race on a Late Antique Textile ‘Collage’”
(Moderated by Marta Doglio)
12-1pm Lunch Break
1-1:30pm Nur Sobers-Khan | “Reviving Islam Akhun: Swindler and Forger or Anti-Colonial Mischief Maker?”
1:45-2:15pm Adam Sellen | “Zapotec Fakes”
(Moderated by Shanti Morell-Hart)
2:30-2:45pm Coffee Break
2:45-3:15pm Irina Podgorny | “Fakes: A Methodological Problem and a Family Business”
3:30-4pm Michael Press: | “Forgery Industries in Late Ottoman Jerusalem”
(Moderated by John Steele)
4:15-5:15pm Roundtable Discussion