AU IP/Gender conference (with a keynote from me)

Reimagining IP/Gender: The Next Ten Years of Feminist Engagement with Intellectual Property Law

 

Presented with the Women and the Law Program

American University Washington College of Law

February 27, 2015

For registration and more information.

 

At the 11th Annual IP/Gender, presenters will address the production of knowledge, commodification, definition, and valuation of women's work, and other areas of feminist and queer inquiry. We hope to spur intellectual property scholars to explore how the tools of deliberately intersectional feminist and queer theory can shed new light on the challenge of creating intellectual property law that fosters social justice.

 

9:30 am - Welcome - Michael Carroll, American University Washington College of Law

 

9:35 - Opening Keynote

Ann Shalleck, American University Washington College of Law - Introduction

Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center- IP, Gender, and Creative Communities

 

10:00 - Panel I

Community Structure and Women’s Leadership in Traditional Cultural Production - Moderator - Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law

Helen Chuma Okoro, Nigerian institute of Advanced Legal Studies - Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property Protection, and Matriarchal Dominance: The Case of Traditional Textiles in South Western Nigeria

Lorraine Aragon, University of North Carolina - Cut From the Same Cloth? Reimagining Copyright’s Relationship with TCEs and Gender in Indonesia

 

11:00 Coffee 11:15 - Panel II Documenting Communities of Practice - Moderator - Meredith Jacob, American University Washington College of Law

Jhessica Reia, Center for Technology and Society at Fundacao Getulio Vargas (CTS-FGV) - DIY or Die! Gender and Creation in Marginal Music Production

Betsy Rosenblatt, Whittier Law School (and Rebecca Tushnet) - Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use

 

12:30 Lunch

 

1:00 - Lunch Keynote: Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law - IP and Gender: Reflections on Methodology and Accomplishments

 

1:30 Panel III

Gendered Understandings of the Role and Scope of Intellectual Property Law - Moderator - Irene Calboli, Marquette Law School and National University of Singapore

Carys Craig, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University - Deconstructing Copyright’s Choreographer: the Power of Performance (and the Performance of Power)

Charles Colman, New York University School of Law - Patents and Perverts

 

2:30 Coffee

 

2:45 Panel IV

Gender and Intellectual Property in the U.S. Federal Courts - Moderator - Christine Farley, American University Washington College of Law

Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School - Intellectual Property Reform Through the Lens of Constitutional Equality

Sandra Park, ACLU Women's Rights Project - A Feminist Challenge to Gene Patents: Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics

 

3:45 - Looking Forward: the Next Ten Years - Peter Jaszi, American University Washington College of Law, Daniela Kraiem, American University Washington College of Law, and community

 

4:30 – Close