Lecture--Chris Kelty on Free Software

[Matt Price]

Hi Folks,

I think I posted this to the list last week but here's a proper notice
about Chris Kelty's talk on Friday.  Hope to see some of you there.

Matt


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>Please Circulate
>+ REMINDER +
>
>Women and Gender Studies Institute's BIOPOLITICS + TECHNOSCIENCE series.
>
>CHRIS KELTY, Rice University
>FRIDAY, Jan. 26, 140 St. George Street, Room 205, 12-1:00pm
>"Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software"
>*Co-sponsored with Faculty of Information Studies
>
>Chris Kelty is assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University
>whose research in the field of science and technology studies focuses
>on internet culture and history, intellectual property, free and open
>source software, public domains, authorship, and ownership in the
>U.S., Europe and India.  His forthcoming book, Two Bits, will be
>published by Duke.  As well as many articles in collected volumes,
>Kelty has published in Anthropological Quarterly, Cultural
>Anthropology, and Grey Room.
>
>ABSTRACT
>Two Bits is an ethnographic and historical portrait of the emergence
>of Free Software.  It tracks the components of Free Software as they
>came together from the 1970s to the 1990s (legally, technically, and
>organizationally) and proposes a model for thinking about projects
>that have emerged out of Free Software, such as open access, Creative
>Commons, or open source biology.  Of particular concern is how Free
>Software functions as a "recursive public" or a public sphere that
>includes both expressive and technical forms of discourse.
>
>This event is open to all. See <www.utoronto.ca/wgsi/biopolitics> for
>future events.
>
>Sponsors: New College; Centre for the Study of the United
>States;Equity Studies; Faculty of Information Studies; South Asian
>Studies; Centre for Environment; African Studies; Centre for Diaspora
>and Transnational Studies; History; SSHRC
>
>Organizers: Michelle Murphy (michelle.murphy-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org) and Brian
>Beaton (brian.beaton-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org).
>
>Michelle Murphy
>Associate Professor,
>History Department and Women and Gender Studies Institute
>University of Toronto
>40 Willcocks St.
>Toronto, ON M5S1C6
>416-978-8964

-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
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