Program on Human Rights Collaboratory: Cultural Heritage - Copyrights/Copywrongs: property rights, human rights and heritage

Tuesday, December 6, 2011
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
(Pacific)
Building 500, Seminar Room
Speaker: 
  • Rosemary Coombe

The Program on Human Rights Collaboratory Series is an interdisciplinary investigation of human rights in the humanities. It is funded under the Stanford Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies as the third in a sequence of pursuing peace and security, improving governance and advancing well-being.

Rosemary J. Coombe has a Tier One Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies at York University in Toronto, where she teaches in the Communications and Culture Joint PhD/MA  Programme, and is cross-appointed to the Osgoode Hall Faculty of Law Graduate Programme and the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought. Prior  to being awarded one of Canada's first Research Chairs, she was Full Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She holds a JSD from Stanford University with a PhD Minor in anthropology and publishes in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies and interdisciplinary legal studies. Her work addresses the cultural, political and social implications of intellectual property laws, the politics of cultural property, neoliberalism and human rights.