TWO DAYS NATIONAL SEMINAR · 2026
IMPERIUM
CAPITALIS
Empire of capital
“Where knowledge becomes territory, ownership becomes the rule”
Two Days National Seminar on
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AS CORPORATE HEGEMONY
Law, Capital, Knowledge, and the Politics of Ownership
IPPOWER
AI
TRIPS
PATENT
DATA
COMMONS
KNOWLEDGE
CAPITAL
LAW
POWER
TECHNOLOGY
OWNERSHIP
THE QUESTION
Knowledge is no longer
just knowledge.
In an age where patents guard medicines, algorithms hold data hostage, and corporations claim dominion over ideas themselves, knowledge has become the last great empire ruled not by kings, but by capital.
IMPERIUM CAPITALIS is MaFLaC's national seminar confronting this new order: an interdisciplinary reckoning with Intellectual Property as the modern architecture of corporate power.
CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTIONWHO OWNS KNOWLEDGE?
BROAD SUB-THEMES
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IP
TRIPS & THE GLOBAL SOUTH
PHARMA PATENTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
AI, COPYRIGHT & DIGITAL CAPITALISM
IP, AGRICULTURE & FOOD
IPR, TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, & BIOPIRACY
OPEN SOURCE, OPEN ACCESS & COMMONS
PUBLIC INTEREST LIMITATION ON IP
IP, CAPITAL, CORPORATE POWER
KEY DATES
05 SEPRegistration
13 SEPRegistration deadline
15 SEPAbstract deadline
17 SEPSelection intimation
23 SEPFull paper deadline
29–30 SEPSeminar
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knowledge order.
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