Second Annual ISHTIP Workshop: Geographies of Intellectual Property

Second Annual ISHTIP Workshop: Geographies of Intellectual Property

Second Annual ISHTIP Workshop: Geographies of Intellectual Property
http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/go/events/ishtip

September 24-25, 2010
American University Washington College of Law
4910 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC, 20016
 
Following our first successful meeting in June 2009 at Bocconi University in Milan on “The Construction of Immateriality," the second meeting of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) will consider "Geographies of Intellectual Property.”
 
REGISTRATION: https://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm
 
Friday, Sept. 24
 
8:45: Opening Remarks by Peter Jaszi (American University)
 
Panel 1  9:00 - 12:00: The Movement of Ideas and Information
 
Will Slauter (Université Paris 8-Saint Denis), "How News Becomes Property"
 
Eva Subotnik (Columbia University), Comments
 
 
Katie Scott (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London), "Mapping Plagiarism in a Regime of Privilege"
 
Jessica Silbey (Suffolk University), Comments
 
 
Orly Lobel (University of San Diego), "Innovation's Edge: Talent Wants to be Free and Flowing"
 
David Lametti (McGill University), Comments
 
 
Lunch 12:15-1:30
 
Panel 2  1:30 - 6:00: Cartography of the Intangible. Metaphors of Space, Place and Property in the Genealogy of Intellectual Property Law -- Michael Carroll (American University), Chair
 
Maurizio Borghi & Stavroula Karapapa (Brunel University, West London), "Invisible Geographies: A Conceptual Map of the Copy in Copyright, and the Unexplored Land of Non-Display Uses"
 
Abraham Drassinower (University of Toronto), Comments
 
 
Simon Stern (University of Toronto), "From Author's Right to Property Right"
 
Ronan Deazley (University of Glasgow), Comments
 
 
Zac Zimmer (Cornell University), "Commons: Copyleft as Training Ground"
 
Adrian Johns (University of Chicago), Comments
 
 
Jeongoh Kim (Vanderbilt University), "Cultural Geographies of Intellectual Property: Turnpikes and Copyrights"
 
Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania), Comments
 
 
Cocktails 6:30-7:30
 
 
Saturday, Sept. 25
 
 
Panel 3  9:00 - 12:00: Preserving Local Identity -- Luca Molà (Warwick University), Chair
 
Debora Halbert (University of Hawaii, Manoa), "Exporting Authenticity: The Construction of National Cultural Identity"
 
Johanna Gibson (Queen Mary, University of London), Comments
 
 
Dwijen Rangnekar (Warwick University), "Re-Making Place: The Social Construction of a Geographical Indication for Feni"
 
Rosemary Coombe (York University), Comments
 
 
Marc Perlman (Brown University), "Should There Be Property Rights in Folklore? Surveying the Intellectual Landscape of the Debate"
 
Wendy Gordon (Boston University), Comments
 
 
Lunch 12:15 - 1:30
 
 
Panel 4  1:30 - 5:00: Geographical Processes in the Histories of Intellectual Property
 
Sara Bannerman (Australian National University, Canberra), "‘We are all developing countries':  Canada and International Copyright History"
 
Oren Bracha (University of Texas), Comments
 
 
Matthias Wießner (Universität Leipzig), "The German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the International Copyright Regime"
 
Christophe Geiger (CEIPI, University of Strasbourg), Comments
 
 
Doris Estelle Long (John Marshall Law School, Chicago), "The Continuation of the Geographic Boundaries of Empire in the New Digital Order"
 
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (Uppsala University), Comments
 
 
5:00: Concluding remarks by Lionel Bently (University of Cambridge) and Martha Woodmansee (Case Western Reserve University)
 
Banquet 6:00 - 9:00
 
 
Sean Flynn
Associate Director
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University Washington College of Law
202 274 4157
www.pijip.org