ISHTIP’s seminar series brings together scholars from around the world to explore how intellectual property regimes have evolved and how they continue to shape, and be shaped by, social, political, and technological forces. In keeping with ISHTIP’s interdisciplinary ethos, the series invites contributions from law, history, philosophy, sociology, literary theory, political economy, anthropology, and other related disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. For questions about the seminars, please contact Carol Ballard.
For past seminars and their recordings, see here.
| “Pink Patenting” and “Ever-Pinking”: Sex- and Gender-Targeted Innovation and the Legal Production of Difference Professor Jessica Lai (Victoria University of Wellington) | Tuesday 20 October 2026 9 PM (Wellington, NZ) Check your time zone | Further details and Registration |
| Intellectual Property and the Dark Side of the Pharmaceutical Industry Associate Professor Luke McDonagh (London School of Economics) | Tuesday 3 November 2026 1 PM (London, UK) Check your time zone | Further details and Registration |
| Collaboration as Method and Object: A Tattooist–Academic Approach to Copying and Creativity Dr Marie Hadley (University of Newcastle) and Dr Adam McDade (Flesh Chambers, Manchester) | Tuesday 17 November 2026 7:30 PM (Sydney, Aus) Check your time zone | Further details and Registration |
| Ingenious Women: Democracy, Gender and the IP System in Colonial India (1930-1948) Assistant Professor Priya Mirza (University of Delhi) and Assistant Professor Tania Sebastian (Vellore Institute of Technology) | Tuesday 16 February 2027 6:30 PM (New Delhi, India) Check your time zone | Further details and Registration |
| “Merchants in Words” and “Rapacious Machines”: The Making of Patent Agents, c. 1870–1950 Assistant Professor Jerome Baudry (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) | Monday 8 March 2027 2 PM (Lausanne, Switzerland) Check your time zone | Further details and Registration |
| Copyright and Cultural Hierarchy: How the Law Shapes the Perception of Music Dr Jiarong Zhang (Newcastle University) | Monday 5 April 2027 8:30 AM (London, UK) Check your time zone | Further details and Registration |