Friday, June 6, 2008
9:00am - 5:00pm
Bennett Lecture Hall
Reception to follow in the Rowell Room
Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Faculty of Law University of Toronto
This event will be open to the public, and free of charge; advance registration is required.
To register please email centre.ilp@utoronto.ca, call 416-978-3724 or
mail in the registration form attached to the conference flyer.
Speaker Biographies, Abstracts and Presentations
EDUCATION, CULTURE AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY PANELS
Agenda as of May 29, 2008
9:00-9:15 – Welcome and Opening Remarks
Andrea Slane (Executive Director, Centre for Innovation Law and Policy)
Michael Hilliard (Corporate Counsel, Microsoft Canada)
9:15-11:00 – Panel #1: Education Policy and Curriculum Reform: Educating for the Technological Present and Future:
Moderator: Clare Brett (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto)
Panelists:
Shaheen Shariff (Education, McGill)
Public Policy, Justice and Legal Issues Relating to Concerns Over Internet Use Among Students
Michael Peters (Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois)
Education and the Culture of Openness: New Architectures of Collaboration
Charles Ungerleider (Sociology of Education, University of British Columbia)
The Impact of Technology on Education: Do We Need Educational Policy and Curriculum Reforms?
Tina Besley (Educational Psychology and Counseling, California State University San Bernardino)
Girls, Social Media and Education
11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 – Panel #2: Immigration Policy and the Knowledge Economy
Moderator: Valerie Preston (Geography, York University, Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS))
Panelists:
Michael Trebilcock (Law, University of Toronto)
Competitive Immigration Policies in International Talent Markets
Les Oxley (Economics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Knowledge Workers and the Changing Pattern of Global Migration: Some Experience from New Zealand
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics)
Accelerating Decline in America's High-Skilled Workforce: Implications for Immigration Policy
Ayelet Shachar (Law, University of Toronto)
The Global Race for Talent
12:45-1:30 – Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 – Panel #3: Information Economies:
Moderator: David J. Phillips (Information Studies, University of Toronto)
Panelists:
Avi Goldfarb (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Economic Geography and the Internet
Sergio Sismondo (Philosophy/Sociology, Queen’s)
Pushing Knowledge in the Drug Industry
Tal Zarsky (Law, University of Haifa, Israel)
Information Flows in Online Social Networks: Promises, Threats and Some Solutions
3:00-3:15 – Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 – Panel #4: Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Economy: The Circulation of Culture and Scientific Knowledge
Moderator: Abraham Drassinower (Law, University of Toronto)
Panelists:
Katherine Strandburg (Law, Depaul University, Chicago and Visiting Associate Professor of Law, New York University)
Homo Scientificus and User Innovator Community Norms
Sam Trosow (Law and Information Studies, University of Western Ontario)
Constraining the Flow of Knowledge in Post-Secondary Education: Copyright as Impediment to Teaching, Learning and Research
Ariel Katz (Law, University of Toronto)
Collectivizing Rights; Privatizing Taxation: The Unarticulated Function of Copyright Collectives
4:45-5:00 – Closing Remarks
Reception to follow
Further details will be posted as available.
Microsoft Law and the Information Society Project
