Lectures 2009 – 2010

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009:
VISITING SPEAKER Michelle Murphy
Associate Professor, Department of History and Women and Gender Studies
University of Toronto
"The Economization of Life"
4:00pm in 8417 Social Science (reception at 3:30pm)


OCTOBER 15, 2009:
VISITING SPEAKER Cori Hayden
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of California – Berkeley
"New Same Things: Generic Medicines, Drug Access, and the Making of Pharma-Equivalencies"
4:00pm in 8417 Social Science (Reception at 3:30pm)


OCTOBER 29-30, 2009:
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Library and Information Science in the Department of ALM (Archival Science, Library and Information Science, Museology), and Associate Professor in Comparative Literature
Uppsala University, Sweden

Thursday, October 29 at 3:00pm
"Performative Properties: Wild Animals, Intellectual Property, and the Museum"
4207 Helen C. White Hall

Friday, October 30 at 12:00pm
"Branding Science: the Intellectual Properties of Marie Curie"
209 Bradley Memorial Building

*Sponsored by Medical History and Bioethics*
*Cosponsored by the School of Library and Information Studies and the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies*


NOVEMBER 12, 2009:
VISITING SPEAKER Tarleton Gillespie
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University
Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
"The Politics of Internet Platforms: How Sites Like YouTube are Shaping Information Policy and Public Discourse"
4:00pm in 8417 Social Science (reception at 3:30pm)