Today!

Please join us for the next event in the ISHTIP Online seminar series!

Paula Westenberger (Brunel University, UK) will give a talk on the use of AI in digital heritage and issues of copyright.

Date: Tuesday 3 March 2026
Time: 2.00pm (London – GMT)

Free, and sign up for a zoom link below:

We are pleased to invite you to the next online ISHTIP seminar

Jose Bellido (Kent) will talk about the entanglement of IP law, colonialism and institutional relations between BIRPI, WIPO, and UNESCO in late twentieth century.

🗓️ Monday, 9 February, 2pm (UK)
📣 Free & everyone is welcome
Sign up ⬇️

Thank you very much to all colleagues who have submitted a proposal for their papers to be discussed at this year's workshop in Sao Paulo in June.

We hope to get back to you as soon as we can.

Happy new year.

A reminder that the deadline for paper proposal for the annual workshop 2026 in Sao Paolo is this Friday 🕰️

This year's theme is "Intellectual Property and Democracy".

We hope you can join us!

closing in two days - join us!

Happy new year.

A reminder that the deadline for paper proposal for the annual workshop 2026 in Sao Paolo is this Friday 🕰️

This year's theme is "Intellectual Property and Democracy".

We hope you can join us!

@glvbhr.bsky.social @kathybowrey.bsky.social @lhst-epfl.bsky.social @veropouillard.bsky.social @annasaunders.bsky.social

We realise that this is a busy time and we hope you can join us!

The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to

🗓️ 16 January 2026!

We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.

Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...

📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣

Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy

When: 25-26 June 2026

Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025

More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...

Reminder that @ishtip.bsky.social is now calling for papers for the 17th annual workshop: this year hosted by the University of São Paulo on the theme of 'Intellectual Property and Democracy', 25-26 June 2026.

Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!

Please share if you can, thanks @kathybowrey.bsky.social @glvbhr.bsky.social @annasaunders.bsky.social @lhst-epfl.bsky.social @be4copy.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣

Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy

When: 25-26 June 2026

Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025

More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...

Please join us for the next online ISHTIP seminar:

Gerardo Con Diaz (STS, UC Davis) will be speaking

'On Judgment: A Critical Grammar for Computing and Law'.

Monday, 8 December 6am LA (PST)

More info and registration link:

ishtip.org/on-judgement...

Everyone welcome.

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International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP)

17th Annual Workshop

Intellectual Property and Democracy

25 & 26 June 2026

hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Call for papers will be circulated soon.

Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday's seminar from so many timezones across the world!

Today!

Link for registration is below:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia - Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson. After registering, you w... Proprietary claims over seeds, crops, agricultural methods, and culinary knowledge exist as important forms of biocultural heritage in socioecological initiatives. These novel proprietary claims, exis...

Please join us for the next seminar in our online seminar series:

Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia

with Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson

Nov 17, 2025 07:00 PM (London).

Local time zones are displayed when you register below:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia - Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson. After registering, you w... Proprietary claims over seeds, crops, agricultural methods, and culinary knowledge exist as important forms of biocultural heritage in socioecological initiatives. These novel proprietary claims, exis...

Please join us for the next seminar in our online seminar series:

Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia

with Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson

Nov 17, 2025 07:00 PM (London).

Local time zones are displayed when you register below:

Here is the recording of the first ISHTIP online seminar of the series: "After Patent Republic".

@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social diagnoses the current shift from neoliberal US-dominant WTO era to state capitalism and multipolar neo-mercantilism, and its effect on patent law's theoretical underpinnings.

📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣

International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop

Intellectual Property and Democracy

25 & 26 June 2026,

hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Call for papers will be circulated in November.

Thanks to everyone across the globe who got up early, stayed up late, and shared their time and thoughts in today's seminar.

Next one in the seminar series will be in about a month's time, please join us for:

Today!

The first in the seminar series is coming up next week.

You can register for a zoom link here👇

We look forward to seeing many of you online!

We are very pleased to announce the 2025/6 ISHTIP Online Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from around the world who explore intellectual property issues from theoretical and historical angles.

Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️

We are grateful to Brad Sherman, Carol Ballard, Sruthi Balaji at University of Queensland for their help and facilitation of the seminar series.

For questions about the seminars, please contact Carol Ballard at: carol.ballard@uq.edu.au

Date: Monday 18 May 2026 | Time: 4.00pm (Paris – CEST

The Legal Aesthetics of Copyright, How AI Unmakes Images

Speakers: Séverine Dusollier and Nicolas Malevé

Date: Tuesday 3 March 2026 | Time: 2.00pm (London – GMT)

Decolonising the heritage, AI and copyright interface: a cultural rights approach

Speaker: Paula Westenberger

Date: Monday 9 February 2026 | Time: 2.00pm (London – GMT)

Laissez Passer: From BIRPI to WIPO

Speaker: Jose Bellido