2022
Seminar - Creative IPR and History of Capitalism: Hello Florence - So far so good: Capitalism’s Affective Articulation
Andrew Popp (Copenhagen Business School) presents Hello Florence - So far so good: Capitalism’s Affective Articulation
Time and place: Dec. 12, 2022 2:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Håndbiblioteket, Niels Treschows hus and on Zoom
In the summer of 1917, Ray Miller drove with his family from eastern Ohio to visit family living in Los Angeles. At home he left behind his young sweetheart, Florence Roe. During the nine months they were separated across 1917-18 Ray and Florence exchanged almost 200 letters. This paper uses Florence and Ray’s letters to argue that affect is a mode or mechanism of articulation (here thought of as ‘jointing,’ more than as speech), animation, and circulation within capitalist economies. In the paper, these effects are traced to the relationship between affect and the projection of fantasies and future-oriented dreamworlds, replicating or mimicking and co-generating capitalism’s own future-oriented projects, projections and imagined futures. Thus, the paper continues my attempts to open a dialogue between the histories of capitalism and economic life and the histories of emotions and the everyday. At the same time as making these arguments, the paper seeks to be richly empirical, immersing us in Ray and Florence’s world.
Andrew Popp is a professor of history in the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. He has published on a wide range of topics in British business, social, and cultural history, but most recently he has focused on the relationships between emotions, the everyday, and what might be called the history of economic life. He has been Editor-in-Chief at Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History since 2014.
About the event
This event is part of Creative IPR and History of Capitalism's series of open seminars. The research group and project hosts open seminars on the last Monday of every month. This is a public research seminar bringing together researchers and other professionals from across the social sciences, law, the humanities and beyond to present their research or field of expertise followed by a Q&A session.
Seminar - Creative IPR and History of Capitalism: Lessons from Oslo - Examining social mobility after the establishment of Norway’s first university
Nick Ford (Lund University) presents Lessons from Oslo - Examining social mobility after the establishment of Norway’s first university
Time and place: Nov. 28, 2022 2:15 PM – 5:30 PM, P. A. Munchs hus 489
The first Scandinavian universities were established in the fifteenth century. But it was not until 1811 that the first university was established in Norway: what is today the University of Oslo. Prior to this, aspiring Norwegian academics would travel to Copenhagen to study. Many high-status professions in Norwegian society — including in state administration and the church — required university level qualifications.
The research question considered is: How did the University of Oslo affect patterns of higher education attainment in the years immediately after its establishment? Of particular interest is what changes were induced in the socioeconomic and educational profile of the families from which students came. We propose a difference-in-difference analysis to examine changes before and after the opening of the University of Oslo: both between Denmark and Norway, and within the Norwegian graduate population.
The empirical approach is underpinned by three factors. First, the timing of the establishment of the University of Oslo was not determined by Norway itself — after many decades of advocacy for a Norwegian university, it could not be anticipated that one would finally be founded in the early nineteenth century. Second, the University of Oslo was modelled closely on the University of Copenhagen and offered substantially the same courses — the new university did not offer instruction in new skills. Third, political circumstances acted to cleanly separate the Danish and Norwegian cohorts after the University of Oslo opened: Norwegians no longer moved to Copenhagen to study, and Danes did not study in Oslo.
Nick Ford is a PhD student in economic history at Lund University in Sweden. He is working with Scandinavian economic history and started his studies at Lund University in 2020 after completing a master's degree in economics at the University of Southern Denmark. He is attached to a research project on human capital acquisition across Denmark, Norway and Sweden during the period 1800-1940. The project uses individual-level records to track the background, education and work experience of students to better understand changes in employers’ demands for worker skills during a period of significant economic development.
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This event is part of Creative IPR and History of Capitalism's series of open seminars.
Seminar - Creative IPR and History of Capitalism: Postcolonial People - The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal
Christoph Kalter (University of Agder) presents Postcolonial People - The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal
Time and place: Oct. 31, 2022 2:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Håndbiblioteket, Niels Treschows hus and on Zoom
Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the histories of over half a million Portuguese settlers who 'returned' following the 1974 Carnation Revolution from Angola, Mozambique, and other parts of Portugal's crumbling empire to their country of origin and citizenship, itself undergoing significant upheaval. Looking comprehensively at the returnees' history and memory for the first time, this book contributes to debates about colonial racism and its afterlives. It studies migration, 'refugeeness,' and integration to expose an apparent paradox: The end of empire and the return migrations it triggered belong to a global history of the twentieth century and are shaped by transnational dynamics. However, they have done nothing to dethrone the primacy of the nation-state. If anything, they have reinforced it.
Christoph Kalter is a Professor of History at the University of Agder. He is the author of "The Discovery of the Third World: Decolonization and the Rise of the New Left in France, c. 1950-1976" (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and of "Postcolonial People. The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal" (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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Seminar - Creative IPR and History of Capitalism: Responsibility Goes Virtual: Lessons from Covid Vaccine Patents
Professor Mario Biagoli (UCLA Law) presents Responsibility Goes Virtual: Lessons from Covid Vaccine Patents
Time and place: June 13, 2022 2:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Håndbiblioteket, Niels Treschows hus and on Zoom
Current calls for the global North’s to provide affordable covid vaccine shots to the global South through licenses and tech-transfer programs has triggered a new and intriguing reframing of the notion of responsibility by the pharmaceutical industry. The assumption is that the present will repeat itself, and that we need to be ready for those scenarios even though that may come with human costs in the present. In fact, pharmaceutical industry spokespersons have been arguing that the global north is not responsible for the health needs of the global south, but for those of future global subjects. Loudly affirming responsibility to future generations is applied as an ethical-looking veneer over the rejection of responsibility to present patients in actual need. If the global South’s calls for compulsory licensing of vaccine patents were to be accepted, that would destabilize the present pharmaceutical innovation ecology by showing that IP rights could be arbitrarily weakened or suspended. In turn, this would scare away venture capital, thus starving the R+D ecosystem. Accordingly, acting on the belief that the global north has any responsibility for the health of the global south will have irresponsible, fatal consequences. Today’s unvaccinated masses demanding affordable shots are thus “selfish” – a “special interest” group insensitive and irresponsible to the needs of a much larger number of future global citizens, from the North or South alike. The path to future global health is obstructed not by corporate greed but by the demands of today’s poor.
Mario Biagioli is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Communication at UCLA. Dr. Biagioli’s scholarship is at the intersection of intellectual property and science and technology studies. He was previously a Distinguished Professor in the School of Law, the STS Program, and the Department of History at UC Davis, where he was the founding director for the Center for Science and Innovation Studies, and an Associate faculty member of the Cultural Studies Program and the Critical Theory Program. He is the author of eight books, his most recent publication Gaming the Metrics: New Ecologies of Academic Misconduct was published by MIT Press in 2020. He is currently completing a book on the new forms of scientific fraud and misconduct that are spawn by the introduction of metrics of academic evaluation. Other interests include patentable subject matter, the history of the idea/expression divide, and the role of eyewitnessing in science. [Biography sourced from UCLA Law].
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This event is part of Creative IPR and History of Capitalism's series of open seminars.
Seminar - Creative IPR and History of Capitalism: Regulation or Reputation? Evidence from the Art Market
Professor Kim Oosterlinck (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Dr. Anne-Sophie Radermecker (Université libre de Bruxelles) present their paper, Regulation or Reputation? Evidence from the Art Market.
Time and place: Apr. 25, 2022 2:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Håndbiblioteket, Niels Treschows hus and on Zoom
LONDON, UK - FEBRUARY 19, 2014: Christie's auction catalogue, published by Christie's on November 10, 1997. Christie's is currently the world's largest fine arts auction house.Shutterstock.
This paper investigates the role of regulation and reputation in the art market. We look at attribution issues in the art market, and in France in particular, where both regulatory and reputational mechanisms have been implemented. More specifically, we focus on the Marcus Decree––a pioneering decree regulating the authentication process of artworks in France since 1981––and the self-regulated authentication systems developed by international top-tier auction houses.
Our findings suggest that the implementation of the decree did neither significantly strengthen the market for autograph and non-autograph works, nor radically modify the landscape of attributions, whereas similar but stronger trends in prices and volumes are found in reputational markets (UK, US). We also attribute the moderate effects of the Marcus decree to the size and relative depth of the French art market, the concomitant globalization of the art trade and the development of technical art history, compliance mechanisms and legal compliance costs. Our results are supported by empirical evidence from a data set composed of 15th and 16th century Flemish paintings auctioned between 1972 and 2015 in a regulated market (FR), but also in reputational markets (UK, US, and other European countries).
Speakers
Kim Oosterlinck is Professor of Finance at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Research Fellow at the CEPR. His work on arts includes, amongst others, the impact of fake discoveries on art markets, the reactions of art markets to monetary reforms, art dealers’ business strategy and the strategic motivations of banks to create art collections. He has published several articles on the French, Dutch and Belgian art markets during WWII and works on a book comparing these markets with the British and German ones. Kim Oosterlinck is currently Vice-Rector in charge of Prospective and Finance at the ULB.
Anne-Sophie Radermecker holds a Ph.D. in Art history/Cultural Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is a former B.A.E.F. fellow at Duke University and lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since 2021, she is assistant professor in Cultural Management at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her main research interests are the economics of art and culture, the market for marginal heritage, the reciprocal interactions between museums and the art market, and quantitative methods applied to art history. Her book entitled Anonymous Art at Auction was released in July 2021 (Brill, Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets).
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This event is part of Creative IPR and History of Capitalism's series of open seminars.
Seminar - Creative IPR and History of Capitalism: The Movement of a Musical Work, Ernst Krenek’s Op, 1923-1940
Johan Larson Lindal (Linköping University) presents The Movement of a Musical Work: Ernst Krenek’s Op, 1923-1940
Time and place: Apr. 4, 2022 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Håndbiblioteket, Niels Treschows hus and on Zoom
Johan Larson Lindal discusses the musical work concept and the movement of musical works through a microstudy of Ernst Krenek’s String Quartet no. 3, Op. 20, from its composition in 1923 until its reappearance in New York in 1940. The Quartet belongs to Krenek’s lesser-known works and occupies a rather narrow spot within the ‘New Music’ in the German-speaking avant-garde of its time. Its premiere was at the first International Society for Contemporary Music festival in 1923, after which it was largely forgotten by its composer. Nevertheless, it reappeared several times throughout this period in various formats and with different constellations of people, even after becoming effectively banned in Germany and Austria. These prerequisites, along with its ambiguous formal structure, makes it a compelling case.
The work of art is often discussed from a philosophical viewpoint, with proponents of, for instance, musical works as eternal abstracta or spatiotemporally situated concreta being a main focal point. Lindal instead approaches the work concept from a historical and sociological perspective, claiming that the notion of any individual musical work is based on its movement through societies and processes such as performances, publication, copyright, remediation, and circulation. Lindal draws on Actor-Network Theory and micro-history to construct a framework in which to view the work concept in relation to Op. 20 1923-1940 through the music piece’s various events, or instances in which it became relevant as an entity: for example, as text, performance, and document. He discusses which aspects of the music piece were emphasized depending on context, for example content, form, information, and relations. He thus studies the piece Op. 20 as an actor-network, always existing and transforming within networks consisting of different components, and with different degrees of unity. Studying a musical piece in this way helps us understand how artistic works were continuously fixed, re-performed, and re-defined in the early 20th century.
Johan Larson Lindal has, since 2019, been a PhD Candidate at Linköping University, Sweden: Department of Culture & Society (IKOS), division Tema Q (interdisciplinary research centre for Culture and Society). His main area of research is 20th century music history. He presented a paper at the Creative IPR Conference in February 2022 and contributed a chapter to the upcoming European Network of Avant-garde and Modernism Studies 7th book series on the theme ‘Crisis’. Before enrolling as a PhD student, he was affiliated with the Mistra Urban Futures platform in Stockholm investigating sustainable transdisciplinary co-production in the Stockholm Region.
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Seminar - Creative IPR and History of Capitalism: Reshaping Intellectual Property Rights to Support Effective Transitions in Fashion
Sara Cavagnero (Northumbria University) presents Reshaping Intellectual Property Rights to Support Effective Transitions in Fashion.
Time and place: Mar. 28, 2022 2:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Håndbiblioteket, Niels Treschows hus and on Zoom
In the current framework, IP assets seem pernicious, with third-party certification marks often cherry-picking issues and individual trademarks being frequently used as unsubstantiated sustainability indicators. Thus, by supporting green marketing campaigns and fostering power imbalance, IP tools are likely to create confusion regarding sustainable practices, giving the illusion that progress is being made – in sharp antithesis with the principles and objectives inspiring IP law.
Strengthening the criteria that brands must meet before they can earn sustainability credentials, eventually conveyed through IP rights, is advocated at all levels. Arguably, though, this top-down approach is not effective as it fosters a business-as-usual perspective and neglects MSEs, which are predominant in the sector. These players are often exploring new ways of doing business, purpose-driven, based on transparency and trust, aimed at benefitting both local and global communities.
Therefore, this research posits theories for reshaping existing IP rights according to a bottom-up perspective, drawing on the sustainable pathways set forth by smaller players. Starting from the assumption that transparency is only the starting point of the sustainability journey, the analysis will focus on the potential of IP rights to convey quality, ethos, and craftsmanship, which come into play when relationship-based business models are at stake.
Sara Cavagnero is a PhD Researcher at Northumbria University and qualified IP lawyer admitted at the Italian Bar, Sara's work has devoted to the use of IP assets as private sustainability governance tools and the legal implications arising thereof. Her analysis is framed within the under-considered SMEs' perspective, and focused on suppliers along the value chain. Sara is involved as an expert at UN/CEFACT "Enhancing Traceability and Transparency for Sustainable Value Chains in Garment and Footwear" project. She is the Law & Sustainability Specialist and one of the co-founders of the NGO rén collective, a platform providing sustainable fashion SMEs with network opportunities and viable options for an industry reset.
About the event
This event is part of Creative IPR and History of Capitalism's series of open seminars.