20 Jan Call for Participants: Graduate Student Colloquium: Doing Legal and Cultural History
Friday, April 20th / 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Crowell Reading Room, 6028 HSSB
Meredith McGill (English, Rutgers)
Oren Bracha (Law, University of Texas)
Patricia Cohen (History, UCSB)
Laura Kalman (History, UCSB)
Mark Rose (English, UCSB)
This lunchtime colloquium offers UCSB graduate students an opportunity to discuss the challenges of doing interdisciplinary work in legal and cultural history with copyright experts Oren Bracha and Meredith McGill, and UCSB professors Patricia Cohen, Laura Kalman and Mark Rose. The colloquium will extend the discussion that Bracha and McGill will begin in the April 19 panel discussion “Copyright: What Happened to the Republic of Letters?” To participate in the colloquium, please RSVP to IHC Program & Events Coordinator Cole Cohen: cole@ihc.ucsb.edu. Lunch will be provided.
More information about the speakers and the panel:
PANEL: Copyright: What Happened to the Republic of Letters?
Thursday, April 19 / 4:00 PM
Meredith McGill (English, Rutgers)
Oren Bracha (Law, University of Texas)
Moderator: Mark Rose (English, UCSB)
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Two eminent historians of copyright will discuss the transformation of American copyright law from the very limited regime of the early nineteenth century to the expansionist regime of the late nineteenth century. This transformation set the foundation for the current copyright regime which many believe represents a threat to the civic commons.
Oren Bracha, Professor of Law at the University of Texas, is the author of many important articles on the history of copyright as well as a book-length study forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Meredith McGill, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University, is the author, among other works, of a major study of US copyright in the early nineteenth century, “American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting.” The panel will be moderated by Mark Rose, Professor of English Emeritus at UCSB and current Dickson Emeritus Professor.
Sponsored by the Dickson Emeritus Professorship and the IHC’s Public Goods series.