Kara W. Swanson

@karawswanson
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Historian sci/tech/med/gender/race/law | IP & property law prof | she/her | couldn't choose between historians.social and mastodon.lawprofs.org | #NUSLPride | Boston, MA, USA
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Kara W. SwansonSep 17, 2025
Time to register for the 11th Annual IP Mosaic conference! Happening Oct 24-25 in person @SuffolkLaw & via Zoom, with one panel particularly timed to assist EU participants https://iipsj.org/programs/annual-mosaic-conference/
Annual Mosaic IP Law and Policy Roundtable Conference

Kara W. SwansonSep 11, 2025
Cool job alert! Public education re invention and innovation @ Lemelson Center @NMAH: https://trustcareers.si.edu/postings/6f15e5b7-58d5-45d7-9f7c-3880ee86f3cd
Project Specialist (Spark!Lab Network Manager), IS-0301-11

Job Opening: Project Specialist (Spark!Lab Network Manager), IS-0301-11 at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Kara W. SwansonSep 4, 2025
Feminist scholars - @Signs has posted #CFP for special issue on Crisis & the annual Stimpson Prize for emerging scholars: https://signsjournal.org/for-authors/calls-for-papers/#crisis
Calls for Papers

2027 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship The University of Chicago Press and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society are pleased to announce the competition for the…

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Kara W. SwansonAug 4, 2025
Come to #Boston this fall for #IPMosiac, a great annual conference hosted by #SuffolkLaw Oct 24-25 https://iipsj.org/programs/annual-mosaic-conference/
Annual Mosaic IP Law and Policy Roundtable Conference

Kara W. SwansonJul 21, 2025
It is always worth reading what #medical #historian Janet Golden has to say -- and she says it so well! https://jackiewolf1.substack.com/p/some-simple-ways-to-promote-vaccine?publication_id=3253909&post_id=168846452&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=5b4pz&triedRedirect=true
Some simple ways to promote vaccine falsehoods!

Janet Golden

Urgent Care
Kara W. SwansonMay 28, 2025
Medical historian Jackie Wolf explains why milk pasteurization was a huge public health advance -- spoiler alert -- huge drop in infant and child mortality from diarrhea: https://jackiewolf1.substack.com/p/the-raw-truth-about-raw-milk
The Raw Truth About Raw Milk

Jacqueline H. Wolf

Urgent Care
Kara W. SwansonMay 19, 2025
Get ready! The #AHAReads summer reading challenge starts in June. Who among us is not spoiled for choice in the category: "a history that has been sitting on your shelf too long"?! : https://www.historians.org/news-publications/aha-reads/?_zs=rIbma&_zl=B7bV4
AHA Reads - AHA

In these chaotic times, we’re feeling the need to escape. And what better way is there to forget about the present than by diving into a good book about the past? So we invite you to participate in the fourth annual AHA Summer Reading Challenge. Participants will complete three (or…

AHA
Kara W. SwansonMay 7, 2025
kottke.orgMay 7, 2025
The life and work of photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge is the subject of a new graphic novel called Muybridge. https://kottke.org/25/05/graphic-novel-biography-of-eadweard-muybridge
Graphic Novel Biography of Eadweard Muybridge

The life and work of photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge is the subject of a new graphic novel called Muybridge by Guy Delisle

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Kara W. SwansonMay 5, 2025
John OverholtMay 4, 2025
Stanford has acquired the prototype of a revolutionary Chinese typewriter long believed lost and known only from its patent documents. https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/05/mingkwai-chinese-typewriter-prototype-stanford-libraries via @metafilter
MingKwai prototype, the ‘origin of Chinese computing,’ finds a home at Stanford

Lost for more than half a century, the rare Chinese typewriter whose name means “clear and fast” was discovered in a New York basement and entrusted to Stanford Libraries.

Kara W. SwansonMay 5, 2025
Time to register for the International Society for the #History & #Theory of #IP annual meeting, hosted by UAM University (Madrid) June 25-26: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ishtip-16th-annual-workshop-2025-intellectual-property-and-capitalism-tickets-1312768549069
ISHTIP 16th Annual Workshop 2025: Intellectual Property and Capitalism

International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property - 16th Annual Workshop. UAM University (Madrid) June 25-26, 2025

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