======================== HES POSTING ================= *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 ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]