Monday 25th May: Copyright and Creativity: An Afternoon With Julie Cohen

Presented by ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) and Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation (iCi).

Julie E. Cohen teaches and writes about intellectual property law and privacy law, with particular focus on copyright and on the intersection of copyright and privacy rights in the networked information society. She is a co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Aspen Law & Business, 2d ed. 2006), and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge. From 1995 to 1999, Professor Cohen taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. From 1992 to 1995, she practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation. Professor Cohen received her A.B. from Harvard University and her J.D. from the Harvard Law School, where she was a Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She is a former law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

I have attended the ARC symposium in 2007 (one at the QUT Garden's Theatre) and found it really informative so I expect the same for this event.

Tuesday 26th May: BrisCulture presents Creative Brisbane

Join expert planners, policy makers, academics and curators in Brisbane on 26th of May at the Old School of Arts in Ann Street, Brisbane to rethink sustainable creativity in a way that fits Brisbane's unique urban culture.

Cultural policy expert Marcus Westbury, festival curator Danielle Bentley, writer and urban consultant Linda Carroli, QUT researcher Jaz Choi and publisher, consultant and sociologist Mark Bahnisch will lead panel discussions, interactive workshops and public conversations.

Visit the BrisCulture website for more information:
http://brisculture.com/creative-brisbane-rethinking-innovation/

Providing that there is a bit of time after this, I will be making a stop at the Hive event with Philip di Bella speaking (Also, Italian Week starts that day and will go on until June 2)

Wednesday 27th May: Design Institute of Australia presents Care Factor - Socially Responsible Design (with Alex Lotersztain)

Alex's practice challenges us to consider how we can mould our practice to consider social responsibility through working directly with village communities in rural Africa to develop commercially viable design products that can be made by local artisan’s utitlising local materials for the international export market. A genuine global nomad, Lotersztain was born in Argentina to Polish parents and travelled extensively as a child. He studied Industrial Design at Ort School before moving to Australia.

I have been listing DIAlogue seminar series' since 2008 but have never actually been to one! Providing that I can still register, I look forward to attending this event. There is another one in June which I will attend.

Thursday 28th May: AIMIA Queensland presents Digital PR - Managing PR in the Digital Channel

SPEAKERS
Matt Granfield - Director, DP Dialogue
David Smerdon - Head of Strategy, Vision 6
David Campbell - Creative Director, FNUKY
Richard Slatter - General Manager, Wotnews

View the speakers bios HERE (pdf)

MC'd by Matthew Hart from BBS PR.