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The Eighth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections
American University Washington College of Law’s
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Women and the Law Program, and
Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law
present
The Eighth Annual
IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections
Gender and Traditional Cultural Expressions
Friday, April 1, 2010 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016
WEBCAST
This event will be webcast live with the ability for participants to electronically submit questions.
Live: http://tiny.cc/grn05
One week after the event, the webcast will be available on-demand.
On-Demand: http://tiny.cc/tco0e
Agenda
WECOME: 9:00 am
Dean’s Welcome
Claudio Grossman
Dean and Professor of Law
American University Washington College of Law
Opening Remarks
Ann Shalleck (bio)
Professor of Law, Carrington Shields Scholar, and Director, Women and the Law Program
American University Washington College of Law
PANEL 1: 9:15 am -10:45 am
An Ethnographic Framing of Legal Protection for
Traditional Cultural Expressions
Lorraine Aragon (bio)
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Indonesia
Boatema Boateng (bio)
Associate Professor of Communication, University of California – San Diego
Ghana
Jane Anderson (bio)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Australia
Peter Jaszi (bio)
Professor of Law and Director, Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic
American University Washington College of Law
Moderator
PANEL 2 – 11:00 am -12:15 pm
Alicia Ory De Nicola (bio)
Research Associate in Anthropology, University College London
Male Printers, Female Designers: Geographic Indication and the Role of
Caste, Class and Gender in Indian Traditional Textile Printing
Sylvia Kang’ara (bio)
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
Gender and African Traditional Cultural Expression:
What does Intellectual Property Have to Do With It?
Nkiru Nzegwu (bio)
Professor of Africana Studies, Binghamton University
The Swakopmund Protocol: An African Response to IP Rights Discourse
Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Head of United States Delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization, and Professor of Law at Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law
Professor of Law and Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University Washington College of Law
PANEL 3 – 1:45 pm -3:15 pm
Bita Amani (bio)
Associate Professor of Law, Queen's University Faculty of Law, Canada
Reframing the Biopiracy Dialogue Towards Women’s Work
Jillian De Gezelle (bio)
Executive Director, Remedia
Nadia De Leon (bio)
Adjunct Professor, Western Kentucky University
Margaret Chon (bio)
Associate Dean for Research and
Donald & Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice
Seattle University School of Law
PANEL 4 – 3:30 PM -5:00 PM
Gender Perspectives on the Future of Traditional Cultural Expression Scholarship
Margaret Chon (bio)
Associate Dean for Research and
Donald & Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice
Seattle University School of Law
Dorothy Noyes (bio)
Associate Professor of English, Comparative Studies, & Anthropology
Ohio State University
Nancy E. Weiss (bio)
General Counsel, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Christine Haight Farley (bio)
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
American University Washington College of Law
Moderator
CLOSING & ADJOURNMENT – 5:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Daniela Kraiem (bio)
Practitioner-in-Residence and Associate Director, Women and the Law Program
American University Washington College of Law
