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From: Jeebesh Bagchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 July 2004 10:47:03 BST
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Subject: [Commons-Law] Call for Papers :: Contested Commons/Trespassing Publics
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Call for Papers
Contested Commons/Trespassing Publics ::
A Conference on Inequalities, Conflicts and Intellectual Property
6th - 8th January 2005 in New Delhi, India.
The past� few years have seen conflicts over the regulation of information; knowledge and cultural materials increase in intensity and scope. This conflict has widened to include new geographical spaces, particularly China, India, South Africa and Brazil. Moreover, a range of new problems, including the expansion of intellectual property protection to almost all spheres of our social life, has intensified the nature of the conflict. It is important to recognize that the nature of the conflict gets configured differently as we move from the United States and Europe to social landscapes marked by sharp inequalities in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
In the light of these transformations, we would like to revisit earlier discussions on creativity, innovation, authorship, and the making of property. Is it possible to draw comparative registers between earlier histories of violence and dispossession that accompanied the making of property, and the current turbulence around intellectual property on world scale?
In this conference, we would like to push comparative discussions between earlier and contemporary moments of dispossession and criminalisation, between the open source movement and discussions on traditional knowledge and biodiversity. We would also like to build a dialogue between different moments in media history: print, film, music and the new media, so as to prise open questions around culture, circulation and property.
This conference aspires to interrogate the philosophical persuasions, cultural dynamics, political economy and legal grids that constitute the contemporary consensus. This cross-disciplinary conference will bring together people from different areas of study: law, history, sociology, literature, anthropology, development and cultural studies, film and media studies.
The conference is organised by Sarai (www.sarai.net), a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and the Alternative Law Forum (ALF), Bangalore. Sarai's research programme focuses on urban culture and the media, while ALF is a collective of critical legal researchers and practitioners based in Bangalore. Sarai and ALF have been collaborating on research and practice in the domain of 'Knowledge and Culture Commons' over the last two years.
Abstracts of three hundred words (300) are invited. The abstracts may address anyone of the above themes.
We will support travel and board of all selected participants resident in the South.
Last date for submission of abstracts is the 15th of September 2004
Please mail your abstracts to<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Conference Editors:
>From Sarai/CSDS: Jeebesh Bagchi, Ravi Sundaram
>From ALF: Lawrence Liang, Sudhir Krishnaswamy
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Sarai
Center for Study of Developing Studies (CSDS)
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi 110054, India
Ph: 91 11 23960040
Fax: 91 11 23943450
Email:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alternative Law Forum (ALF)
122/4 Infantry Road,
Bangalore 560 001, Karnataka
Phone: 91 80 22865757
Email:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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