Kara W. Swanson

Historian sci/tech/med/gender/race/law | IP & property law prof | she/her | couldn't choose between historians.social and mastodon.lawprofs.org | | Boston, MA, USA











Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-09-17

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 iipsj.org/programs/annual-mosa

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-09-11

Cool job alert! Public education re invention and innovation @ Lemelson Center @NMAH: trustcareers.si.edu/postings/6

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-09-04

Feminist scholars - @Signs has posted for special issue on Crisis & the annual Stimpson Prize for emerging scholars: signsjournal.org/for-authors/c

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-08-04

Come to this fall for , a great annual conference hosted by Oct 24-25 iipsj.org/programs/annual-mosa

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-05-28

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: jackiewolf1.substack.com/p/the

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-05-19

Get ready! The 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"?! : historians.org/news-publicatio

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kottke.orgkottke
2025-05-07

The life and work of photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge is the subject of a new graphic novel called Muybridge. kottke.org/25/05/graphic-novel

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John Overholtoverholt@glammr.us
2025-05-05

Stanford has acquired the prototype of a revolutionary Chinese typewriter long believed lost and known only from its patent documents. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025 via @metafilter

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-05-05

Time to register for the International Society for the & of annual meeting, hosted by UAM University (Madrid) June 25-26: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ishtip-16th

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-05-02

Latest free content @SignsJournal is a roundtable on Loretta J. Ross’s Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel signsjournal.org/loretta-rosss

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-04-10

The 5th Race + IP conf is NEXT WEEK. If you can't make it to Pittsburgh (which is lovely in the spring!) virtual attendance is an option. Check out the amazing program: raceipconference.org/2025/

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-04-04

has launched the Coalition Project, creating an archive of our present. Like many other resources provided by the journal, no pay wall! signsjournal.org/feministresis

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-02-08

TFW the Patricia Williams invites you to her class because — checks notes — she is teaching your work!!! law.northeastern.edu/faculty/w

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-01-28

Quick! Paper proposals for Race + IP '25 are due Feb. 1. A profoundly interdiscipinary conference curated by : raceipconference.org/

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-01-28

Can't believe that , the journal is celebrating its 10th anniversary! Congrats to the editors and all who have published in its pages! If you want to contribute to the 10th ann, issue, see the catalystjournal.org/index.php/

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2025-01-10

Quick! Get your application in for a fellowship, due Jan. 15. My time there was terrific, and the community can't be beat (check out the many seminar series, both in person and hybrid). masshist.org/research/fellowsh

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2024-12-16

Just spit my tea laughing when I read “Vivi cleared her throat and reached for the least sexy thing she could think of, a copy of her syllabus.”

Kara W. Swansonkarawswanson
2024-12-13

Excited to see that the paper I commented on last July is published: congrats to Prof. Jessica Lai for her creative use of data re contraceptive to think about &
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