[Milton-L] Conference on Intellectual Property (CIP)

[Stackhouse, Amy]

Dear Colleagues,
While this is not exactly a Milton conference, we would especially
welcome papers on Milton and intellectual property or on Milton's
contemporaries and intellectual property.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Regards,
Amy Stackhouse

CALL FOR PAPERS

The inaugural Conference on Intellectual Property (CIP) will be held on
June 12-13th 2009 at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, and will include
keynote addresses by Laura M. Quilter, M.L.S., J.D. and painter Joy
Garnett.

Whether as a factor in the economics of book production and authorial
contracts, the reason and rationale behind the editing of texts, or the
legislative decision that shaped the modern book trade, intellectual
property as developed in the academic, economic, legal, and
technological fields challenges the very notion of the book: what it is,
how it is made, and who determines its history. It simultaneously
challenges the very notion of ownership:  what we own, how we own, and
who may claim ownership. The purpose of this conference is to explore
intellectual property, in a cross-disciplinary context, as both a
concept and a reality relating to the professional fields whose concerns
intersect in understanding its essence and implications.    

We invite papers and panels dealing with any and all aspects of
intellectual property, from the origins of eighteenth-century literary
property debates to the viability and ethics of plagiarism and
plagiarism detection, from the economic impact of patents to the
technological advances that may make intellectual property obsolete. We
especially encourage papers/panels that embrace a multidisciplinary or
interdisciplinary approach.

CIP papers and/or abstracts will be included in a conference
proceedings, and selected essays may be published in a proposed
collection for a peer-reviewed press.

Papers/Panel abstracts should be submitted by February 5th, 2009 to Dr.
Amy Stackhouse at astackhouse at iona.edu or Dr. Dean Defino at
ddefino at iona.edu. We look forward to a fruitful and collegial
experience.  For more information, please see the conference website at
www.iona.edu/cip.


Keynote Speakers:

Laura Quilter is an attorney and researcher in technology and
information law and policy. Laura's research and practice particularly
focuses on the rights of information users, including consumers,
libraries, creators, and scientists, and she regularly speaks and writes
on these matters. She earned her law degree from Boalt Hall School of
Law, University of California, Berkeley, in 2003, and her library
science degree from the University of Kentucky in 1993.
http://lquilter.net/professional/briefbio.html
http://lquilter.net/index.php

Painter Joy Garnett appropriates news and documentary photographs from
newspapers, internet and other media, and re-invents them as paintings.
Her work mines the tensions between the open-ended narratives of art,
and ubiquitous media representations of real-life events. Ms. Garnett's
work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world,
including the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC, the National
Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and the Witte Zaal in Ghent,
Belgium, and reproduced in numerous publications, from Harper's to
Cabinet magazine.  In 2004, she was awarded a grant by the Anonymous Was
a Woman foundation, and she currently serves as Arts Editor for Cultural
Politics, a refereed journal published by Berg in Oxford, UK.
http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/joy.html