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
Special Topic: Gender and Traditional Cultural Expressions
Friday, April 1, 2010, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Washington College of Law, 6th Floor, 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016
Registration: www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration
Programme and more information:: http://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/founders/2011/20110401.cfm
Webcast: This event will be webcast live with the ability for participants to submit questions electronically. Live: http://tiny.cc/grn05 – One week after the event, the webcast will be available on-demand. On-Demand: http://tiny.cc/tco0e
The Eighth Annual “IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections” Symposium focuses on the special theme of gender and the production of traditional cultural knowledge. Since colonial times, the specific cultural productions of discrete human communities have been systematically under-valued and relegated to the status of “naturally occurring raw materials” in legal and economic regimes. The consequences of introducing IP regimes in this area may have special significance for women and their communities, or may reflect underlying assumptions about gender, women’s proper role in decolonization and development, and the distributive consequences of IP regimes.