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*CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT*
"What is a Scientific Author?"
March 7-9, 1997
Askwith Lecture Room in Longfellow Hall
Harvard University
13 Appian Way
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Conference Organizers: Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison, Department of
History of Science, Harvard University.
"What is a Scientific Author?" traces the genealogy of scientific
authorship from the early modern period to contemporary large-scale
research programs. By focussing on specific issues and historical
examples, the speakers analyze patterns of change of scientific
authorship through different institutional structures, disciplinary
practices, genres of scientific literature, political contexts,
techniques of communication, as well as different scales of research
programs and organization of labor and responsibilities.
The conference will focus on the discussion of precirculated papers; the
speakers will provide only short (10-minute) summaries of their main
arguments.
For information regarding registration and how to obtain the
precirculated papers, please contact the conference coordinator, Jean
Titilah, at [log in to unmask]; tel:617-496-4508; fax:
617-495-3344. Changes and/or updates to the conference program can be
found on the conference website:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/author.html.
Askwith Lecture Room in Longfellow Hall is located in the Graduate School
of Education section of the Harvard University campus. Appian Way runs
between Garden and Brattle Streets just outside of Harvard Square and
close to the Cambridge Common.
The conference has been made possible by the support of the National
Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Department of History
of Science, Harvard University.
PROGRAM
Friday March 7, 1997
1:30-2:00 Coffee
2:00-2:15 Introduction
2:15-5:45 Session I - Technology, Instruments, and Authorship
Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley
"Secede and Assemble: Ready-Made Events in Molecular
Biology"
Pamela Long, Johns Hopkins University
"Power, Patronage and the Authorship of Ars: From
Mechanical Know-how to Mechanical Knowledge in the Last
Scribal Age"
3:45-4:00 Break
Myles Jackson, University of Chicago
"Artisanal Versus Scientific Knowledge: Fraunhofer and
Working-Class Optics"
Robert Brain, Harvard University
"Scandals of the Extrinsic: The French Legal Subject in
the Age of Technical Reproducibility"
Christian Licoppe, France Telecom, Centre National d'Etudes des
Telecommunications
"Managing Narratives and the Shaping of the Self Through a
Hybrid Authorial Voice"
James Boyle, Washington College of Law, American University
Commentary
Saturday March 8, 1997
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-12:00 Session II - Authorship in Big Science
Mario Biagioli, Harvard University
"Authorship, Credit, and Responsibility in Contemporary
Biomedicine"
Peter Galison, Harvard University
"The Collective Author"
10:00-10:15 Break
Sharon Traweek, University of California, Los Angeles
"Gossip and Alphabetical Order in High-Energy Physics"
Hugh Gusterson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Death of the Author and Authors of Death: Creativity
and Prestige Among Nuclear Weapons Scientists"
Arnold Davidson, University of Chicago
Commentary
12:00-12:15 Break
12:15-1:00 Roger Chartier, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Paris, Keynote Address
1:00-3:00 Lunch Break
3:00-5:45 Session III - Authorship and Narratives
Andrew Warwick, Imperial College, London
"What is a Scientific Reader? Making Sense of Maxwell's
'Treatise' in Late Victorian Cambridge"
Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University
"Is There a Doctor in the House? Tracing the Virtual
Surgeon"
4:00-4:15 Break
Angela Creager and Judith Swan, Institute for Advanced Study and
Princeton University, respectively
"Fashioning the Virus as a Chemical Object: Stanley,
Authorship, and TMV"
Mary Terrall, Harvard University
"The Uses of Anonymity in the Age of Reason"
Barbara Johnson, Harvard University
Commentary
6:00 Conference Reception - For Participants and Attendees
Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Science Center Room 226
Sunday March 9, 1997
9:00 Coffee
9:30-12:15 Session IV - Authorship in the Early Modern Period
Simon Schaffer, Cambridge University
"Forgers and Authors in the Baroque Economy"
Rob Iliffe, Imperial College, London
"Discipleship and Authority: Understanding the 'Principia'
1687-1727"
10:30-10:45 Break
Adrian Johns, California Institute of Technology
"The Ambivalence of Authorship in Early Modern Natural
Philosophy"
Rivka Feldhay, Cohn Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv
"Authority and Authorship in Jesuit Culture"
Carla Hesse, University of California, Berkeley
Commentary
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