Center for Public Genomics Activities & Events
Year 3 (August 2006 - July 2007)
Public Symposium: Cultures of Intellectual Property Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Organized by and co-funded with the Duke IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy
Intellectual property rights have become an arena of increased contestation as technology and business processes have become more driven by market forces on the one hand, and by informatics on the other. This workshop brings ethnographic studies in this area, with a primarily critical and qualitative sensibility, into conversation with law and policy scholarship. Featuring the work of young scholars, the gathering will focus on two themes as they relate to intellectual property: genomics & informatics and global health.
Year 2 (August 2005 - July 2006)
Public symposium: Public Genomics and Bioart Friday, April 14, 2006 Organized by Priscilla Wald & Rob Mitchell
This public event explored the controversies in the areas of policy, ethics, and law that have been generated by the rapid advance of genetic and genomic technologies and discoveries, as seen through the eyes and artistic production of contemporary artists. The symposium considered questions raised by bioart about the public, intellectual property, human creativity, and human being, as well as the controversies that this artistic production has generated in its own right.
Year 1 (September 2004 - July 2005)
Public Symposium: Collective Action and Proprietary Rights: Promoting Innovation and Access in Health March 4-5, 2005 Organized by Arti Rai & Anthony So
Through two public panel discussions, the conference explored ways in which collective action, particularly by the public sector, through licensing or pooling of intellectual property might minimize the barriers to innovation and access in health posed by proprietary rights. A working conference followed where stakeholder representatives considered policy options from various perspectives.