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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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