INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY/INTELLECTUAL PIRACY
Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary, scholarly and artistic works, designs, symbols, names, and images. But what does it mean to own ideas, music, art, or designs as property? Is it a bellwether of capitalist logic or a vital guardian of individual creation? And what do we make of current attempts to blur the lines between creation and appropriation such as musical “mash-ups” and mixed media literature in our current moment or in cultural borrowings of the past (such as the recitation of works by “Homer”)? Are these instances of intellectual property or of piracy? At this moment of digital reproduction and manipulation, crowd sourcing, sharing economies, and on-line collaboration, we will investigate the concept, benefits, and/or damages of intellectual property and intellectual piracy.
Lectures
All lectures begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted, and are held in the Daniel Family Commons, which is located in the Usdan University Center.
Artist Levellers and Digital Diggers
02/20/2017
DAVID LOWERY• University of Georgia
The Invention of Copyright Piracy in late 19th Century America
02/27/2017
STEVEN WILF • University of Connecticut
Democratic Looking
03/06/2017
CLAIRE GRACE • Wesleyan University
How Do People Get News Online?
04/03/17
CHRISTIAAN HOGENDORN • Wesleyan University
Authenticity and Terror
04/10/2017
DAVID JOSELIT • Graduate Center CUNY (Lecture will be at the Russell House)
CANCELLED
04/17/2017
How the Romans Abolished Slavery in the Enlightenment
04/24/2017
DAN EDELSTEIN • Stanford University
Many Paths to the Great Spirit: Recontextualizing the New Age Appropriation of Indigenous Shamanism
05/01/2017
JUSTINE QUIJADA • Wesleyan University
The Aesthetics of the “Common”: A Challenge to the Notion of Intellectual Property?
05/08/2017
CHRISTINE ROSS • McGill