Second Annual ISHTIP Workshop

Geographies of Intellectual Property

American University, Washington, D.C.
24-25 September 2010

Live webcast of the event available here

>> Programme <<

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”
    • Comments: Eva Subotnik (Columbia University)
  • Katie Scott (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London), “Mapping Plagiarism in a Regime of Privilege”
    • Comments: Jessica Silbey (Suffolk University).
  • Orly Lobel (University of San Diego), “Innovation’s Edge: Talent Wants to be Free and Flowing”
    • Comments: David Lametti (McGill University).
• 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: Copyright and the Unexplored Land of Non-Display Uses”
    • Comments: Abraham Drassinower (University of Toronto).
  • Simon Stern (University of Toronto), “From Author’s Right to Property Right”
    • Comments: Ronan Deazley (University of Glasgow).
  • Zac Zimmer (Cornell University), “Commons: Copyleft as Training Ground”
    • Comments: Adrian Johns (University of Chicago).
  • Jeongoh Kim (Vanderbilt University), “Cultural Geographies of Intellectual Property: Turnpikes and Copyrights”
    • Comments: Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania).
• 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”
    • Comments: Johanna Gibson (Queen Mary, University of London).
  • Dwijen Rangnekar (Warwick University), “Re-Making Place: The Social Construction of a Geographical Indication for Feni”
    • Comments: Rosemary Coombe (York University).
  • Marc Perlman (Brown University), “Should There Be Property Rights in Folklore? Surveying the Intellectual Landscape of the Debate”
    • Comments: Wendy Gordon (Boston University).
• 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”
    • Comments: Oren Bracha (University of Texas).
  • Matthias Wießner (Universität Leipzig), “The German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the International Copyright Regime”
    • Comments: Christophe Geiger (CEIPI, University of Strasbourg).
  • Doris Estelle Long (John Marshall Law School, Chicago), “The Continuation of the Geographic Boundaries of Empire in the New Digital Order”
    • Comments: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (Uppsala University).
  • 5:00: Concluding remarks by Lionel Bently (University of Cambridge) and Martha Woodmansee (Case Western Reserve University)
• Banquet 6:00 – 9:00