Trans-Imperial Strategies for Keeping Medicines as Private Assets from 1500 to 1900
On April 7, postdoctoral researcher Angana Moitra gave a lecture at the English Literary Society of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi’s Annual Fest, Logos’26, which had the theme “Othering as Supernatural: Death of Resolute Corporeality”.
On Logos’26, Moitra spoke on the topic The Witch as Other: Witchcraft as Marginalisation and Reclamation, based on her transitional work from her PhD to her postdoctoral research within Secrets to Patents
Secrets to Patents
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.
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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