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Trans-Imperial Strategies for Keeping Medicines as Private Assets from 1500 to 1900

“AI in the Academic World” keynote at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria’s cross-faculty conference

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“AI in the Academic World” keynote at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria’s cross-faculty conference

Secrets to Patents’ PI, Natacha Klein Käfer, gave the opening keynote of the 40th Jornada Academica Integrada of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. This university-wide event is the largest of the institution, and every year it showcases the research being developed at the Federal University. In its 40 years of existence, this is the first time the opening keynote was given by a scientist in the Humanities. This instance of the JAI was dedicated to the theme of AI in science, and the keynote was title “AI in the Academic World: Transformations in Research, Production, and Teaching.”

You can read more about the keynote and its themes on the UFSM’s website.

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The Project

The Research Environment Secrets to Patents investigates the long-term history of how life-saving and health-improving medicines became for-profit commodities from 1500 to 1900. Focusing on the Atlantic Colonial Nexus, the project’s team will investigate the strategies that different historical agents used to claim ownership of medicinal knowledge.

Funding

Secrets to Patents has been generously funded by the Swedish Research Council (2025-2030) and hosted at Lund University (SE), in collaboration with the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen (DK) and the History Department of Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (BR).

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