The Instability of Intellectual Property

Uppsala, Sweden July 2-4, 2014

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Hosted by the Department of Archival Science, Library & Information Science and Museology & Heritage Studies (ALM), Uppsala University in collaboration with the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University and Linköping University in Sweden.

By choosing this theme for the 2014 ISHTIP workshop at Uppsala University we want to focus on the ways in which intellectual property moves and travels across disciplinary, legal, linguistic, and geopolitical borders.

Instability can refer to the way intellectual property law seeks to pin down a legal regime for increasingly unstable works. Instability can refer to the interdisciplinarity of intellectual property scholarship, as it tries to navigate and expand across and beyond disciplinary traditions.  Instability can refer to the many processes of cultural and legal translation and transculturation involved in flows of culture.

We encourage a broad variety of historical and/or contemporary topics that explore  interdisciplinary and international aspects of intellectual property, engaging with the diversity and plurality of legal and linguistic traditions. We are particularly interested in receiving contributions that deploy a self-reflexive epistemological outlook on the study of intellectual property.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• translation and appropriation;
• perceptions of instability in different times and places and strategies deployed for dealing with that instability;
• transnationalism;
• legal borrowing;
• comparative legal and cultural studies;
• hybridity (in both cultural and legal terms, for instance scientific property);
• processes of commodification and conversion;
• the interplay between international, regional and local law/culture;
• IP from below/
• “centre-periphery” relations
• interchanges, translations and borrowings between various intellectual properties and jurisdictions

Please note that after the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit revised papers for publication in a special issue of the journal Culture Unbound (see www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se).

 

Important dates

January 15th 2014:	Submission of paper proposal (proposals should comprise a 300 word abstract, a single paragraph author biography and two page CV) to ishtip2014@gmail.com
March 1st 2014:	Notification of acceptance
June 1st 2014:	Submission of Paper (maximum 8000 words)

 

Organizers

Marianne Dahlén marianne.dahlen@jur.uu.se

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén ehw@abm.uu.se

Martin Fredriksson martin.fredriksson@liu.se

 

This information is reproduced in our downloadable PDF call for papers.