📣 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 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 ⬇️

Our online seminar with Prof @kathybowrey.bsky.social on"Open Science's Progressive Potential. A Critical IP Perspective" is on youtube now, in which she diagnoses the potential and limitations of Open Science in relation to IP & other proprietary practices. More online seminars to come in autumn!

Today! We would be please if you were able to join us. Registration closes at noon (UK time).

📣 If you miss interdisciplinary conversations about IP from the past few days, don’t fret … Pls join us for the online seminar critical IP perspectives on Open Science with Kathy Bowrey @kathybowrey.bsky.social next Monday. Info ⬇️

And it’s a wrap-up! Huge thanks to everyone who wrote, spoke, and participated in the 2025 Annual Workshop in Madrid! We hope you had a wonderful and stimulating time in and outside the lecture theatre. We will announce next year’s date and location in autumn and look forward to seeing you again.

We are on! ISHTIP Day 1 in Madrid

📢 Joint ISHTIP/Warwick Law School online seminar with Kathy Bowrey @kathybowrey.bsky.social who will provide a critical IP perspective on the Open Science Movement 🕰️ 30 June 2025, 1-2pm (London), online ❗Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/warwick-la... ℹ️ Info: ishtip.org/open-science...

We look forward to seeing you in Madrid or online on Wednesday and Thursday!

Next week! You can still register on eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ishtip-16t... Downloadable PDF on our website: ishtip.org/final-progra...

ROUNDTABLE on Intellectual Property and Industrial Property (in the Era of Trump) Wellcome Collection, London | 19 June | 3:30-5pm GMT In-person and online & open to public With @mbarber.bsky.social @kathybowrey.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social Vitor Ido, Svitlana Lebendeko, Caoimhe Ring, me

Save the date in London: Roundtable on Intellectual Property and Industrial Policy (in the Era of Trump) 19 June 2025 | 3:30-5pm | Wellcome Trust, Euston Road Organised as part of British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship project 'IP and the Role of the State in Industrial Policy' 1/3

It is with profound sadness that we learned about the passing of our beloved friend, colleague, and mentor, Mario Biagioli. Mario was a pre-eminent scholar in many fields of inquiry: history of science, science studies, media studies, and the interdisciplinary study of intellectual properties. 1/2

The final programme (with slightly later starting times) for the 16th Annual Workshop in Madrid is on ishtip.org . And please do not forget to register your attendance on Eventbrite (link below). A bit over a month to go! We look forward to seeing you.

A bit more than a month to go until our meeting in Madrid: please do not forget to register for your in-person/online attendance on eventbrite (especially if you are the author or presenter)!

We are pleased to announce the programme for the 2025 ISHTIP 16th Annual Workshop, 25-26 June, in Madrid 🇪🇸:

Should be of interest to early-career scholars of ISHTIP ⬇️

Proposals relating to the ERC funded project "Before Copyright" led by Marius Buning are also very welcome, feel free to contact Marius in case of interest.

Three fully-funded PhD fellowships. Proposals on “History of Knowledge” theme, linking it to the History of Capitalism research group, and focusing on the history of innovation and IP (copyright, patents, trade marks) are particularly welcome. Open geographical & temporal scope from 1500 - present

Please bear with us as we are still in the process of programming and selecting abstracts... thank you.

We closed our X/twitter account. Bluesky will for now our main social media presence. You can also join ISHTIP and our mailing list. Please send an email with your email address, position and affiliation to admin[at]ishtip.org More info: ISHTIP.org

We are grateful for the overwhelming record number of submission received for the 2025 Annual Workshop in Madrid and hope to get back to everyone who submitted as soon as we can. Thank you.

The London IP reading group, Intangible in tangible, will hold its first 2025 meeting on 23 January, organised by Danilo Mandic and Henrique Carvalho. For more details, please see the link below:

Deadline extended for the 16th ISHTIP Annual Workshop in Madrid, June 2025. The new deadline is: 17 January 2025 The 2025 theme is INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CAPITALISM. Please see ishtip.org for more details. We wish you happy holidays 🎄❄️🏖️🌞

Deadline extended for the 16th ISHTIP Annual Workshop in Madrid, June 2025. The new deadline is: 17 January 2025 The 2025 theme is INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CAPITALISM. Please see ishtip.org for more details. We wish you happy holidays 🎄❄️🏖️🌞

10 days to go until the deadline for proposal submission: it is an abstract & CV only, and no full draft is required at this point. We look forward to receiving your proposals and hopefully see you in Madrid!

@profjohanna.bsky.social, 'The Pretension Is Nothing; the Performance Everything': The Origin of Performers' Rights and the Creation of the Performer as Artist : preview on G Bks: books.google.ca/books?hl=en&... with many other great essays in this volume @ishtip.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social

ICYMI CfP for our 2025 Annual Workshop in Madrid

The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property is pleased to share its Call for Paper for its 16th Annual Workshop in Madrid, 25-26 June 2025. The 2025 theme is INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CAPITALISM. Please see ishtip.org for more detail

Please bear with us as we are in the process of migrating our website to a new server and updating the pages. Hopefully it should be back up and running soon!

SAVE THE DATE We are excited to announce the dates for the next ISHTIP - International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property - Annual Workshop, which will take place in Madrid on 25 - 26 June 2025. More details and CfP will follow next month.

Two weeks until the Annual Workshop of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property at Boston University! Please find the link for (free) registration and the terrific program here: www.bu.edu/law/engageme... We look forward to seeing many of you!

TODAY Please join us in four hours for a conversation on Intellectual Property & the Design of Nature 🌱 London 12 noon | Paris 1pm | NYC 7am | Chicago 6 am | Sydney 9 pm All details are below:

ISHTIP is very pleased to invite you to an online book talk on the new volume 'Intellectual Property & the Design of Nature' ed. by Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman, with comments by Emilie Cloatre (Kent) and Andrew Ventimiglia (Illinois State). More details & link in the next post and in the flyers:

Paraît aujourd'hui aux Éditions du Collège de France : Jérôme Baudry, Jean Dalibard (dir.), À bras-le-corps ! Savants et instruments au Collège de France au XIXe siècle. Merci aux auteurs & autrices, et à l'équipe des Éditions, tout particulièrement Fanny Pauthier ! #histsci #histSTM

Registration - free! - is open for the 15th Int Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property Workshop, Boston University Law School, 26 - 27 May 2024. We advise early booking of accommodation (list is in the website) if required, as prices tend to be high. www.ishtip.org?p=1402

There is still time to submit an ISHTIP workshop abstract... the deadline has been extended to Monday 22 January 2024.

Happy New Year! Please do not forget to send in an abstract for our meeting in June in Boston.

Call for Papers: 2024 Int. Society for the History and Theory of IP Annual Workshop | 26-27 June 2024 | Boston University hosted by Jessica Silbey Abstract deadline: 8 Jan 2024 Theme: Intellectual Property and the Anthropocene Other papers within ISHTIP interests also welcome. More details:

Enjoyed talking to ISINNOVA think thank about ERC CoG Creative IPR work, find more here www.futures4europe.eu/blogs/from-s...

@lpcprof.bsky.social @mpilhlt.bsky.social @reginaldohlaw.bsky.social @mary1liston.bsky.social @ishtip.bsky.social @panuminkkinen.bsky.social @thewphp.bsky.social @dorfmandoron.bsky.social @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social @cmewing.bsky.social @gshans.bsky.social @hkpmw.bsky.social

Some thoughts from me on what can be learnt from Allende’s technological diplomacy, as well as what was (and what is now) at stake in crafting new laws and frameworks for technological cooperation. cil.nus.edu.sg/blogs/allend...

“While ownership of university inventions attracts scholarly and policy attention, effective management of copyright in research outputs is also necessary to maximise the benefits of publicly funded research, but often neglected.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

International Society for the History and Theory of IP: Call for Papers: “Intellectual Property and the Anthropocene” 26-27 June 2024 hosted by Jessica Silbey, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Further details : www.ishtip.org?p=1385

Call for Papers: 2024 Int. Society for the History and Theory of IP Annual Workshop | 26-27 June 2024 | Boston University hosted by Jessica Silbey Abstract deadline: 8 Jan 2024 Theme: Intellectual Property and the Anthropocene Other papers within ISHTIP interests also welcome. More details: