QUESTION OWNERSHIP
Examine how ownership of knowledge is legally and economically constructed.
Imperium Capitalis
ABOUT IMPERIUM CAPITALIS
Empire of
capital.
Where knowledge becomes territory, ownership becomes the rule
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.
The seminar critically examines the relationship between intellectual property, corporate concentration, global trade, technology, public interest and unequal control over knowledge.
Its central question is deliberately open and interdisciplinary: to what extent do contemporary IP regimes operate as instruments of corporate power?
OBJECTIVES
MAP POWER
Study links between IP, corporate concentration and global markets.
CONNECT DISCIPLINES
Create dialogue among legal, economic, technological and management perspectives.
IMAGINE ALTERNATIVES
Explore public interest, commons, access and equitable knowledge governance.
BROAD SUB-THEMES
PHILOSOPHICAL JUSTIFICATION OF IP: DEVELOPING COUNTRY PERSPECTIVE
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
SEMINAR TIMELINE
September
2026.
05 September
Registration started
13 September
Registration deadline
15 September
Abstract submission deadline
17 September
Intimation of selected abstracts
23 September
Full paper submission deadline
29–30 September
Event dates
OFFICIAL PARTNERS / CENTRES
Government Law College, Kozhikode focuses on awareness, education and research in Intellectual Property Rights, including patents, copyrights, trademarks and geographical indications.
The Internal Quality Assurance Cell supports continuous quality enhancement and sustenance within the institution.
Legal education platform and publication partner referenced in the official brochure.