
The following is the text of a talk given at the British Academy on the 24th of November 2003. The occasion was an Arts and Humanities Research Board 'Research Strategy Seminar' entitled 'Intellectual Property Rights in the Arts and Humanities'. I
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This essay is an expanded version of a presentation at the 2007 DOCAM Summit, Daniel P. Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Montreal, 26 September 2007.

A response to the Open Objects Initiative and the Cross-Cultural Partnership, both presented at the conference Subversion, Conversion, Development organized by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University
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Subversion, Conversion, Development: Public Interests in Technologies took place at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts , Social Sciences, and Humanities) at the University of Cambridge, 24-26 April 2008. The organizers included James
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A report on the CRASSH workshop "Subversion, Conversion, Development: Public Interests in Technologies," Cambridge, 24-26 April 2008.From the workshop's abstract:As part of the "New forms of knowledge for the 21st Century" research agenda at
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This talk was given in the course Introduction to Anthropology, AT1501 Lecture 19, at the University of Aberdeen, 2008.

(This essay is a draft version of a chapter to appear in Trademarks and Brands, an Interdisciplinary Critique, (eds.) Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis and Jane Ginsburg, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.)
James Leach is Senior Lecturer in Social
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Still Water co-director Jon Ippolito takes a look at emblematic cases of the transition from subversion through conversion to development in connections between art and industry in the last fifty years. This talk was first presented at the
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This is a response to the conference Subversion, Conversion, Development: Public Interests in Technologies took place at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts , Social Sciences, and Humanities) at the University of Cambridge, 24-26 April 2008. The
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This essay links the rise of ritualised literacy in MahÄyÄna Buddhism to rituals inherent in the early canon.