IP/Gender Past Presentations - 2005 to Present



2010 - SEVENTH ANNUAL IP/GENDER: MAPPING THE CONNECTIONS
Gender and Invention

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Zorina Khan
Bowdoin College
What Do Intellectual Property Rights Promote?:
Innovation among Women Inventors in the 19th and 20th Centuries

PRESENTERS

Rayvon Fouché and Sharra Vostral
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Selling Women: Lillian Gilbreth and Gendered IP

Annette I. Kahler
Albany Law School
Examining the Right to Exclude: Historical, Social andmEconomic Perspectives on Women and Invention

Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University School of Law
Merry Widows: Egbert v. Lippman and the Corset as Patented Technology

Ann Bartow
University of South Carolina School of Law
Gender, Innovation and Inventorship: Every Patent Tells a Story

Bernardita Escobar
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
Women and Science Production in Developing Countries: Chile in the 1990–2008 Period

Shlomit Yanisky Ravid
Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College, Israel
Patents and Gender: The Exclusion of Women Inventors from IP Rights

Laurel Smith-Doerr
Boston University
Gendering Science, Gendering Ethics: The Intersecting Production of Knowledge, Gender and Ethics

COMMENTORS

Dan Burk
University of California, Irvine - School of Law

Shubha Ghosh
University of Wisconsin Law School

Mario Biagioli
Harvard University

Joshua Sarnoff
American University Washington College of Law

Christine Haight Farley
American University Washington College of Law

Michael Carroll
American University Washington College of Law

Ann Shalleck
American University, Washington College of Law


2009 - SIXTH ANNUAL IP/GENDER: MAPPING THE CONNECTIONS
Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Jonathan McIntosh
Artist, www.rebelliouspixels.com/
Transforming Mass Media Myths: Gender and Sexuality in Political Remix Video

Francesca Coppa
Muhlenberg College
"Swap Audio?" Theorizing Music in Fan Vidding

PRESENTERS

Melissa Tatum
University of Arizona College of Law
Does Gender Influence Attitude Toward Copyright in the Filk Community?

Tisha Turk
University of Minnesota
Transformative Narrations: Fan-made Videos and Fair Use 
Casey Fiesler
Vanderbilt Law School
Paper Dolls: Role-Playing, Gender, and Pretending Without A License 
Laura Murray
Queen's University
Boys and Their Toys? On the Gender Dynamics of Copyright Activism in Canada
Jordan Gilbertson
University of La Verne
We Will Not Be Ignored - Integrating Fan Created Works Into the Traditional Copyright Classroom
Karen Hellekson
Intellectual Property, Transformation, and Academic Journals 
Kristina Busse
University of South Alabama
Original Genius and Transformative Reptition
 
Zahr Said
University of Virginia School of Law
Taking the ‘Grrr’ out of ‘Grrrl’: Strategically Gendered Marketing in Cathy’s Book 
Abigail De Kosnik
University of California, Berkeley
Women’s Work and 'Free' Fan Labor 
 

 COMMENTATORS

Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown University Law Center

Francesca Coppa
Muhlenberg College

Ann Bartow
University of South Carolina School of Law

Peter Jaszi
American University, Washington College of Law

Ann Shalleck
American University, Washington College of Law


2008 - FIFTH ANNUAL IP/GENDER: MAPPING THE CONNECTIONS


KEYNOTE SPEAKER
University of Pennsylvania Law School
PRESENTERS

Olufunmilayo Arewa
Northwestern University School of Law
Difference and Technology: Gender, Intellectual Property and Identity in the Internet Age

Kevin Collins
Indiana University School of Law
Software, Wetware and Cyborgs: Recent Cases on Patentable Subject Matter

Francesca Coppa
Muhlenberg College
Media Cannibals: A History of Vidding Women

Séverine Dusollier
University of Namur (Belgium)
Queering Intellectual Property: A Deconstruction of the Masculine Property and the Female Public Domain

K.J. Greene
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Blues Women of the 1920s
Published as: K.J. Greene. Intellectual Property at the Intersection of Race and Gender: Lady Sings the Blues. 16 Am. U.J.Gender, Soc. Pol'y & L 365 (2007). 

Debora Halbert
Otterbein College
The Labor of Creativity: Women's Work and Quilting

Ian Kerr
University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
Identity Thefts of the Third Kind

Laurence Rassel
Constant
Legal Tools as Feminist Narrative: Act as if Author was your Location

Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown University Law Center
Economies of Desire: Fair Use and Marketplace Assumptions

COMMENTATORS

Ann Bartow
University of South Carolina School of Law

Dan Burk
University of Minnesota Law School

Christine Haight Farley
American University, Washington College of Law

Peter Jaszi
American University, Washington College of Law

Victoria Phillips
American University, Washington College of Law


2007 - FOURTH ANNUAL IP/GENDER: MAPPING THE CONNECTIONS


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Margaret Jane Radin
University of Michigan Law School, Princeton University

PRESENTERS

Christine Haight Farley
American University, Washington College of Law
The Feminist Mystique of Brands in Trademark Law Today

Jessica Silbey
Suffolk University Law School
Origin Myths: The Mystical Beginnings of Intellectual Property Law

Dan Burk
University of Minnesota Law School
Do Patents Have Gender?

Ann Bartow
University of South Carolina School of Law
Gender as Intellectual Property: The Propertization of Women

Helen Lom
World Intellectual Property Organization - Geneva, Switzerland
Empowering Women through Awareness Raising and Capacity Building about Strategic Uses of Intellectual Property Tools to Gain Economic Advantage

Elizabeth Judge
University of Ottawa- Ottawa, Canada
Eyeing IP: Gender, Senses and the Visualization of Intellectual Property

Ruchira Goswami
National University of Juridical Sciences - Calcutta, India
Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Gendered Perspective from India

Amita Dhanda
NALSAR University - Hyderabad, India
Creative Recipes: Gendering the IPR Teaching Program at NALSAR University Hyderabad

COMMENTATORS

Peter Jaszi
American University, Washington College of Law

Diane Zimmerman
New York University School of Law

Julie Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center

Ann Shalleck
American University, Washington College of Law

Victoria Phillips
American University, Washington College of Law


2006 - THIRD ANNUAL IP/GENDER: MAPPING THE CONNECTIONS


PRESENTERS

Carys Craig
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Authorship and Conceptions of the Self: A Feminist Inquiry into Creativity and Copyright
Published as: Carys Craig, Reconstructing the Author-Self: Some Feminist Lessons for Copyright Law, 15 Am. U.J.Gender, Soc. Pol'y & L 207 (2006)

Dan L. Burk
University of Minnesota Law School
Feminism and Dualism in Intellectual Property
Published as: Dan L. Burk, Feminism and Dualism in Intellectual Property, 15 Am. U.J.Gender, Soc. Pol'y & L 183 (2006)

Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown University Law Center
My Fair Ladies: Sex, Gender, and Transformative Use in Copyright Law
Published as: Rebecca Tushnet, My Fair Ladies: Sex, Gender, and Fair Use in Copyright Law, 15 Am. U.J.Gender, Soc. Pol'y & L 273 (2006)

Eileen M. Kane, Ph.D., J.D.
Penn State Dickinson School of Law
Breast Cancer and Patents: Molecules and Conflict
Published as: Eileen M. Kane, Molecules and Conflict: Cancer, Patents, and Women's Health, 15 Am. U.J.Gender, Soc. Pol'y & L 305 (2006)

Ann Bartow
University of South Carolina School of Law
Trademarks of Privilege: Naming Rights and the Physical Public Domain

Susan Scafidi
Southern Methodist University
Counterfeit Chic: The Culture of the Copy in an Outlaw Medium

Victoria Phillips
American University, Washington College of Law
How to Commodify an American Quilt: The Women of Gee's Bend
Published as: Victoria Phillips, Commodification, Intellectual Property and the Quilters of Gee's Bend, 15 Am. U.J.Gender, Soc. Pol'y & L 359 (2006)

Boatema Boateng
University of California, San Diego
Gender Contradictions in Textile Production and IP Law in Ghana
Published as: Boatema Boateng, Walking the Tradition-Modernity Tightrope: Gender Contradictions in Textile Prodution and Intellectual Property Law in Ghana. 15 Am. U.J.Gender, Soc. Pol'y & L 341 (2006)

COMMENTATORS

Christine Haight Farley
American University, Washington College of Law

Peter Jaszi
American University, Washington College of Law

Ann Shalleck
American University, Washington College of Law


2005 - SECOND ANNUAL IP/GENDER: MAPPING THE CONNECTIONS


PRESENTERS

Ann Bartow
University of South Carolina School of Law
Fair Use and the Fairer Sex: A Gendered Story of Copyright Law
Published as: Ann Bartow, Fair Use and the Fairer Sex: Gender, Feminism, and Copyright Law, 14 Am. U.J.Gender, Soc. Pol'y & L 551 (2005)

Sonia Katyal
Fordham University School of Law
The Intellectual Property of Gender
Published as: Sonia K. Katyal, Performance, Property, and the Slashing of Gender in Fan Fiction, 14 Am. U.J.Gender, Soc. Pol'y & L 461 (2005)

COMMENTATORS

Peter Jaszi
American University, Washington College of Law

Christine Haight Farley
American University, Washington College of Law

Ann Shalleck
American University, Washington College of Law