Speakers
 

Rosemary Coombe is the author of The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law (Duke University Press, 1998) and numerous articles in legal theory, cultural anthropology and cultural studies. She is working on a book about the globalization of intellectual property issues. She was appointed in 2001 to the Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies at York University where she is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts. Coombe earned a combined doctorate in law and anthropology from Stanford University in 1992.

Andrew Herman is the author of The ‘Better Angels’ of Capitalism: Rhetoric, Narrative and Moral Identity Among Men of the American Upper Class (Westview, 1998) and co-editor of The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor and Power (Routledge, 2000). A professor at Drake University, Herman received his Ph.D. from Boston College.