Selected Recent Conference Presentations

2005
"Not Quite Publics: Traditional Knowledge and New Social Movements."
Contested Commons / Trespassing Publics - A Conference on Inequalities, Conflicts and Intellectual Property.
Supported by SARAI and the Alternative Law Forum. New Delhi, India, January 6.

2004
"Ownership of the Arts is a Global Human Rights Issue."
Battling for the Ownership of the Arts Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, April 16.

2003
"Toy Wars and Dancing Masks: Properties and Personas in the Digital Public Sphere."
6th Annual Ethics & Technology Conference, Boston College, June 27-28,
and Democracy in the Digital Age Conference, Yale Law School, April 4-6.

“Protecting Cultural Industries.”
International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime Conference.
Duke University Law School, April 6.

2002
Dr. Coombe regularly participates in international policy making forums, such as the second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Inter-Sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), February 5.