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Spring 2004 Colloquium

Wednesday, March 31st
12:15-1:30pm, Room 600 William & June Warren Hall (Amsterdam between 115 and 116 streets), Columbia Law School.  Light lunch will be served.

Jeffrey Redding, a Research Fellow at the Center for Study of Law & Culture, will give a talk on Gay Human Rights for Queer Homo-sectuals?

Commentator: Alice Miller, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Friday, April 16th
12:15-1:30 p.m., Room 600 William & June Warren Hall (Amsterdam between 115 and 116 streets), Columbia Law School.  Light lunch will be served.

Susan Scafidi, an Associate Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, will give a talk on Iconoclasm in Intellectual and Cultural Property.

Description:  Intellectual property and cultural property stand poised between the modern and the postmodern, between particularity and universality.  The intellectual freedoms of the late 20th century that celebrated both the public domain and a new global society remain in tension with a reinvigorated sense of proprietary individualism and cultural nationalism in the early 21st.  This paper attempts to place these oppositions in theoretical context, with particular attention to the role of destruction or iconoclasm in enabling creativity, and also to suggest a basis for considering the nature of imitation and secondary creation.

Commentator:  Zainab Bahrani, Porada Associate Professor of Ancient Art History, Columbia University

For more information or for papers, please contact culture@law.columbia.edu or call 212-854-2511.