From prestonh@home.com Tue Jan 26 22:06:12 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id WAA25388 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:06:11 -0800 Received: from ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id WAA28977 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:06:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from C17639-A ([24.0.234.140]) by ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA6031 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:06:08 -0800 X-Sender: prestonh@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 22:05:03 -0800 To: indknow@u.washington.edu From: "Preston D. Hardison" Subject: Call for papers: Protecting Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <19990127060608.AAA6031@C17639-A> From: Bret Diamond To: EANTH-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for papers. Protecting Indigenous Intellectual PropertyRights (fwd) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 23:40:41 -0500 From: James W Dow Reply-To: anthap@oakland.edu To: anthap@oakland.edu Please reply to Mary Riley CALL FOR PAPERS -- PROPOSED ORGANIZED SESSION FOR THE 1999 American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, to convene November 17-21, 1999 in Chicago, Illinois: PROTECTING INDIGENOUS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE NEXT MILLENIUM: LONGITUDINAL APPROACHES, TOOLS THAT WORK The scope of this proposed session is to go beyond the discourse of the "inherent importance" of indigenous intellectual property rights (IPR) by taking a longitudinal approach and examining the tools and techniques which have been effective in defining, maintaining, and successfully upholding indigenous claims to land, resources, and the corpus of collective traditional knowledge and other IP in the judicial court systems. Session participants will present papers which: (1) examine the formation and evolution of specific tools for the protection of IPR in specific sociocultural systems; (2) measure the progress made and obstacles encountered in attempts made to establish or recognize indigenous IPR; and (3) reflect on how the existence and application of these tools - legislation, statutes, etc., which have served to simultaneously define and protect indignous IPR have impacted the cultures which they were originally designed to serve. The assumption that the "empowerment" of indigenous persons is both a tangible and valid measure of the effectiveness of IPR legislation and awareness will be challenged and discussed in tandem with the session participants' examination of the tools and techniques that have been devised to establish and protect indigenous claims and assertions to land, resources, and the use of IP by persons outside of the indigenous community. Interested session participants do not have to be AAA members (nor anthropologists) in order to participate in this session. We also seek lawyers, political scientists, and other scholars outside of the field of anthropology (and/or the academy) to participate in this session. Non-AAA members may be eligible to have the registration fees for the AAA Annual Meetings waived, but expenses for lodging, travel, etc., in conjunction with attending the AAAs in Chicago are the responsibility of each individual participant. The deadline for individual abstracts (250 words or less), conference registration fees (if you are an AAA member), and all other related paperwork for the AAAs is WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1999. It is recommended that prospective interested participants contact the session organizer, Mary Riley, as soon as possible for more information. For more information, please contact Mary Riley at slabat1@uic.edu, or at the following address: Mary Riley 706 South Laflin St., #2F Chicago, Illinois 60607 (312) 421-8710 [E-mail: slabat1@uic.edu] In your communications, please include your name, address and/or e-mail address, and phone or fax numbers, (if applicable). .