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CATEGORIES:Twentieth Century Think Tank
SUMMARY:Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African
  politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s an
 d 1970s - Helen Tilley (Northwestern University)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/137665
DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 1969\, as social movements roiled
  the world and decolonization continued to transfo
 rm geopolitics\, hundreds of government delegates 
 and thousands of official and invited guests journ
 eyed to Algiers for the Organization of African Un
 ity's First Pan-African Cultural Festival. The gov
 ernment representatives divided into three committ
 ees and spent much of the ten-day event hashing ou
 t their views on African culture\, past and presen
 t\, and articulating its role in the economic and 
 social development of the continent. Rather than w
 ork with a narrow definition of culture\, they emb
 raced an all-encompassing view\, seeing it as the 
 'totality of tangible and intangible tools\, works
  of art and science\, knowledge and know-how\, lan
 guages\, modes of thought\, patterns of behaviour 
 and experience acquired by the people in [their] l
 iberating effort to dominate nature and to build u
 p an ever improving society'. The resulting recomm
 endations came together in a 3\,000 word _Pan-Afri
 can Cultural Manifesto_\, which was adopted by the
  assembly on the final day without a single dissen
 ting vote. Among their top priorities were the nee
 d for member states 'to promote and coordinate res
 earch in all spheres of traditional medicine in or
 der to modernize them'\; and 'to protect the intel
 lectual property of Africans by suitable legislati
 on'. This talk places this event – including the s
 tate\, pan-African\, and global policies stemming 
 from it – within the wider context of the global C
 old War and decolonization. It explains how concep
 ts relating to African culture\, including people'
 s knowledge and know-how\, came to be encoded not 
 just within the text of model laws relating to cop
 yrights and patents\, but also in the programmes o
 f the WHO and Unesco and the constitutions of cert
 ain IP organizations\, setting global precedents i
 n the process.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Richard Staley
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