Experiences in applying for (and getting) an ERC Grant.
Higher seminar in Media and Communication Studies with Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Linköping University.

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén is the first (and so far, only) Swedish female scholar in the humanities and social sciences to receive an Advanced Investigator Grant by the European Research Council. In her presentation, Eva will talk about what it means to be an interdisciplinary scholar of intellectual property, describe how the PASSIM project came into being, share her experience of international research management and leadership, and say something about a possible PASSIM 2.0, or where to go once an Advanced Investigator Grant ends. She will explore the past, present and future of PASSIM.

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén is Professor of Mediated Culture at the Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University, Sweden, and also Co-Director of The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP). She has written extensively on the cultural history of international copyright, the public domain and, more recently, on patents as documents. Her most recent book, Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information was published by University of Chicago Press in 2015. In 2017, she was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant for the project “Patents as Scientific Information, 1895-2020,” (PASSIM), which runs between October 1, 2017 and March 31, 2023. Her first article in PASSIM “How Patents became Documents, or Dreaming of Technoscientific Order, 1895-1937,” in Journal of Documentation 75(3), 2019 was recognized with a 2020 Emerald Literati Award for “Highly Commended Paper.” https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-11-2018-0193

The PASSIM website External link, opens in new window.
The European Research Council (ERC) External link, opens in new window.
ISHTIP External link, opens in new window.

This higher seminar is arranged by the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. The seminar will take place via Zoom. For more information including zoom link, please contact saga.hansen@sh.se .