Exhibition coming soon: Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates
COMING SOON!
Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates
3 September 2025 through 27 March 2026
Curator: Linda Quirk
Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains accidental mistakes–ranging from typos to factual errors to errors arising from prejudicial assumptions–and a significant proportion of it also contains deliberate misinformation resulting from various forms of forgery, fakery, and piracy. We can all become better readers and better at protecting ourselves from scammers by improving our understanding of the nature of the content before us. This exhibition introduces the work of notorious and lesser-known forgers, it reveals the various ways in which experts and authors have faked their own identities over the centuries–ranging from carefully-selected pseudonyms to falsified ethnicities to fraudulent credentials–and it explores a number of shady publishing practices. We may find ourselves laughing out loud at the wide variety of weird and wacky enterprises, many of which have been reinvented for each successive generation and every new technology over centuries.
Check out this free exhibition at Bruce Peel Special Collections (basement of Rutherford South), which is open for drop-in visitors on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday afternoons (1-4pm). Monday afternoons are set aside for group exhibition visits, which can be requested by writing to us at bpsc@ualberta.ca. Detailed information about the Peel library's hours can be found under NEWS on the Peel website here.
The book/catalogue that accompanies this exhibition can be purchased in person in the Peel library (cash only, no dealers) or through University of Alberta Press.
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