Philipp Theisohn invited by Jaipur Book Mark

Philipp Theisohn to participate in a conference on copyrights at the Jaipur Book Mark. Copyrights experts from Switzerland, Germany, Australia and India will discuss global issues of copyright and intellectual property rights.

Jaipur Literature Festival began an important new initiative: Jaipur BookMark (JBM). Conceptualized as a business to business segment, JBM is held parallel to JLF, and provides a platform for publishers, literary agents, authors, translation agencies and writers to engage with one another.

Session: Global issues of copyright and intellectual property rights
19 January 2017
at the Jaipur Book Mark at 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Copyrights experts from Switzerland, Germany, Australia and India will discuss global issues of copyright and intellectual property rights.

Speakers: Philipp Theisohn, G. Raghavendra, KerstinSchuster, Aditi Maheshwari Goyal, Cate Blake, Swami Shubha Vilas

Moderated by Renuka Chatterjeeat the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi and at the Seagull Publishing School in Kolkata.

Philipp Theisohn will also be speaking on the issue in Delhi & Kolkata.
23 January 2017 - Seminar/ lecture at the Centre for Internet and Society, Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi

25 January 2017 - Lecture at the Seagull Publishing School in Kolkata. 

About Philipp Theisohn 
Philipp Theisohn, who was born in 1974, studied Modern German Literature, Medieval Studies and Philosophy in Tübingen and Zürich. He gained his doctorate in Jerusalem and Tübingen and, since 2013, has been Professor of Modern German Literary Studies at Zurich University. He has produced numerous publications on German and European literary history from the 13th to the 21st century, in particular on "literary future knowledge", the perception of literary property, and Jewish Cultural Poetics.

The focal points of his work and research are the literature of Switzerland, literary property/plagiarism as a literary historical phenomenon, science fiction and futurology, realism, Franz Kafka and Early Modern Poetics of Knowledge.

Theisohn is intensely involved in the transmission of literature far beyond the academic environment. He is a member of the jury for the "Swiss Book Prize" of the Publishers' Association, an expert for inter-disciplinary and literary projects for the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia; he curates literary exhibitions, is active in a broad range of journalistic work, among other things for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and is in charge of the blog and website of the "Schweizer Buchjahr" which contributes significantly to contemporary literary discourse.

Among his most important book publications are: "Die Zukunft der Dichtung. Geschichte des literarischen Orakels 1450-2050" ("The Future of Poetry. The History of the Literary Oracle 1450-2050"); "Plagiat. Eine unoriginelle Literaturgeschichte"( "Plagiarism. An Unoriginal Literary History") and "Literarisches Eigentum. Zur Ethik geistiger Arbeit im digitalen Zeitalter" ("Literary Property. On the Ethics of Intellectual Work in the Digital Age").