EASST 2010 Pre-conference PhD Workshop - Weeds, Offcuts, Issues and Troubles

Weeds, Offcuts, Issues and Troubles

EASST 2010 Pre-conference PhD WorkshopSeptember 1st 2010, Trento (Italia)URL: http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010/pre-conference-phd-workshop
 

Timetable

Fwd: CFP: Eä. Deadline: July 10

Dear all,

An information that might be of interest for you.
Best regards,
Christophe Boëte

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Date: 1 June 2010 20:16
Subject: CFP: Eä. Deadline: July 10
To: Christophe Boete <cboete@gmail.com>

Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology (ISSN 1852-4680) is a periodical free online journal in an interactive format publishing papers on Medical Humanities and Social Studies of Science and Technology. It is permanently available at www.ea-journal.com.

CFP SILFS 2010 Extended deadline

SILFS 2010: International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Sciences

Contributed papers are invited to the International Conference of the SILFS (Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze).

The conference will take place at University of Bergamo, Bergamo (Italy), from 15-17 December 2010.

For details of the Association (SILFS) and the Conference (SILFS2010) see the SILFS website at http://www.unibg.it/silfs

Papers are welcome in any of the six different sections of the conference as follows:

1. Logic and Applications

2. Philosophy of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

3. Philosophy of Life Sciences and of Cognitive Sciences

4. Methodology and Philosophy of Science

5. Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences

6. Epistemology and the History of Science

reminder risky entanglements? conference in vienna, 9-11 june

Dear Colleagues,

just a quick reminder that you can still register for the Conference “Risky Entanglements? Contemporary research cultures imagined and practised” in Vienna, from 9-11 June.

The conference program is now online, for further details see:

http://sciencestudies.univie.ac.at/events/conference2010/

Apologies for cross-posting.

Best wishes,

Joachim Allgaier (on behalf of the organising committee)

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Joachim Allgaier, Ph.D.

Institut für Wissenschaftsforschung / Department of Social Studies of Science

Universität Wien / University of Vienna

Sensengasse 8/10

1090 Wien / Vienna

T: ++43 1 4277 49610

F: ++43 1 4277 9496

http://sciencestudies.univie.ac.at

Philosophy & Technology Best Paper Prizes

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Reminder: Register for "Managing Knowledge in the Technosciences, 1850-2000", Leeds 5-8 July

 

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Managing Knowledge in the Technosciences, 1850-2000

Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, 5-8 July 2010.

 

This conference is organized by the University of Leeds/Bristol AHRC funded project

Owning and Disowning Invention: Intellectual Property, Authority and Identity in British Science and Technology, 1880-1920

  http://owninganddisowninginvention.org     

 

Registration for this international conference is now open - see http://owninganddisowninginvention.org/#Conference for the registration form and provisional programme (also below)

Early registration deadline: 30 May 2010 (after that date registration costs increase by 20%).

Thanks to the British Society for History of Science, some student support is available from the Butler Eyles fund  

 

Our Keynote speaker is: Prof Mario Biagioli (Harvard): “What has happened to ‘discovery’ and ‘invention’? Intersecting the discourse of patent law and science studies”

 

This conference brings together researchers investigating the history of knowledge management since the mid-19th century ¨C a period that saw the rise of the techno-sciences, trans-European controversies over the legitimacy of patenting, and the coining of the term ¡®intellectual property¡¯. A variety of perspectives is offered concerning ¡®intellectual property¡¯ and the ‘intellectual commons’ in the techno-sciences

  

Conference themes:

- patent management and inventing cultures

- openness vs secrecy

- authority and the construction of inventorship

- discourses of ¡®pure¡¯ vs ¡®applied¡¯ science and ¡®discovery¡¯ vs ¡®invention¡¯

- Intellectual property laws, and techno-scientific transformations

- legal cultures and techno-scientific expertise

- academic entrepreneurship and state funding

- gender and inventor identity 

- industrial research and techno-scientific identities

- techno-sciences and IP in global cultures

 

 

Provisional programme: Managing Knowledge in the Technosciences, 1850-2000

Please note timings and session titles may be subject to revision

 

Day #1:  monday 5 July

 

Conference Introduction (Graeme Gooday)

 

Session 1: 14:30-16:00  Practitioner perspectives

Christopher Beauchamp,  ¡®Follow the Lawyers: legal practice and the making of patent law¡¯

Graham Dutfield, ¡®Collective Invention and Patent Law Individualism, 1850-2000¡¯

Sigrid Sterckx, ¡®How to distinguish between a discovery and an invention ¨C patenting the unpatentable¡¯

                               

Day #2: TUESDAY 6 July

NB parallel sessions on this day

 

Session 2A 09:00-10:30  Owning and Disowning Invention #1                    

Berris Charnley and Greg Radick

 

Session 2B 09.00-10.30  Electrical perspectives

 Richard Noakes, ¡®Technical Stagnation and Business Complacency? Routine and Research at the Eastern Telegraph Company 1872-1929¡¯

Elizabeth Bruton  ¡®Something in the Air: William Preece and experiments with wireless telegraphy, 1882-1902¡¯

Giannis Binietoglou and Aristotle Tympas, ¡®Escaping knowledge disruption amidst talk about a technical revolution: Micro-management of the analog-digital computer demarcation by the electrical engineering community, 1940s-1960s¡¯ 

 

 

Session 3A 11:00-12:30  Owning and Disowning Invention # 2                               

Stathis Arapostathis and Graeme Gooday

 

Session 3B 11.00-12.30  Bio-Medical perspectives

Anne-Marie Coles, ¡®Technocratic Discourse and Technology Management: The Control of Poisons in 19th Century Britain¡¯

Sally Frampton, ¡®Intellectual Ownership in 19th century ovarian surgery¡¯

Daniel Cozzoli, ¡®The Discovery of the Early Antihistaminics Between Science and Industry¡¯

 

 

Session 4A 14:00-15:30  Owning and Disowning Invention # 3                                                   

Jon Hopwood-Lewis and Christine MacLeod

 

Session 4B 14.00-15.30  European perspectives

Andrea Maestrejuan, ¡®Managing Invention: Setting the Boundaries of Ownership¡¯

Joris Mercelis, ¡®Leo H. Baekeland and the transfer of Bakelite to Europe: Intellectual property rights and beyond¡¯

Theodore Lekkas, ¡®Software piracy: Not something necessary evil or its role in the software development in Greece¡¯

 

 

Plenary Lecture- Mario Biagioli: 17:30-18:30 

“What has happened to ‘discovery’ and ‘invention’? Intersecting the discourse of patent law and science studies”

 

 

Day #3: wEdneSDAY 7 July

(NB Sessions may be scheduled 30 minutes later than below)

 

Session 5 09:00-10:30     Economic history perspectives

Kristine Bruland, ¡®How Firms Manage Knowledge: some cases from the late nineteenth century¡¯

Roberto Fontana, ¡®The nature of inventive activities: Evidence from a Data-Set of R&D Awards.¡¯

Elisabeth Mueller, ¡®Small and Medium©\Sized Enterprises and Intellectual Property in the Era of Open Innovation: Examples from the Pharmaceutical Industry¡¯

                                            

Session 6 11:00-12:30     Entrepreneurship

Don Leggett, ¡®Parsons¡¯ patents and partnerships: networks of authorship, cost and credibility in the steam turbine¡¯

Susan Morris,  ¡®Scientist Entrepreneurs and Their Resource Networks: keeping secrets in-house¡¯

Julian Cockbain, ¡®Academic entrepreneurship ¨C a view from the sidelines¡¯

 

Session 7 13:30-15:00     Open-ness and secrecy

Simone Turchetti, ¡®Atoms for Cash: a history of the USAEC Patent Compensation Board¡¯

James Sumner, ¡®Beyond trade secrecy: how did brewers and brewers¡¯ consultants protect their techniques?¡¯

Sabine Clarke, ¡®Pure science with a practical aim: the meanings of fundamental research in Britain, c. 1916-1950¡¯

                                               

Session 8 15:30-17:00   Boundaries and identities

Alison Adam, ¡®Junking Science: Managing the Science/Not Science Boundary¡¯

 Kara W. Swanson, ¡®Patenting the Female Form:  Gender, Inventor Identity and Authority in the Nineteenth-Century United States¡¯

Alex Csiszar, ¡®Regulating the Scientific Machine: Cataloguing Knowledge for Industrial Innovation        

 

Conference dinner

 

Day #4: ThUrSDAY 6 July

 

Session 9  09:00-10:30 Intellectual property and global justice

 Michiel Korthals and Henk van den Belt ¡®The international patent system and the ethics of global justice¡¯

Cristian Timmermann ¡®Intellectual property, technology transfer and climate justice¡¯

Bram De Jonge and Niels Louwaars ¡®Intellectual Property Rights and the Millennium Development Goals: a fruitful combination?¡¯

                                               

Session 10 11:00-12:30Science and government

Robert Bud, ¡®Driving through Mode 2: The 1980 Spinks Committee on biotechnology and the implementation of a new kind of science¡¯.

Andrea Marchesetti,  ¡®E pluribus unum, 1860s-1910s: The rise of state funding and its effects on private patronage and entrepreneurship in science¡¯

Adam Robert Green, ¡®Reforming the Chaebols: The World Bank¡¯s Millennium Advice for South Korea¡¯s Transition to a Knowledge Economy¡¯

 

 

13:30-14:00 Summing Up  and conclusion

 

14:00 End of Conference- Departure

 

 

New journal announcement: Philosophy & Technology (Springer)

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PhD Fellowships, "Science, Cognition, and Technology", the University of Bologna (Italy)

Announcement of 2 PhD Fellowships, “Science, Cognition, and Technology”, the University of Bologna (Italy)

A PhD programme devoted  to “Science, Technology, and Humanities” was launched in 2007 by the University of Bologna (Italy)  in cooperation with the Universities of Exeter (United Kingdom) and Konstanz (Germany).

The three-year programme, now renamed “Science, Cognition, and Technology”, combines fields such as the history, philosophy, and sociology of science with an emphasis on “knowledge societies”.

The professors and researchers supporting the programme belong to a wide range of disciplines, including the history and philosophy of science, the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, economics, and literature (see the programme webpage: http://www.cis.unibo.it/STH/index.html).

ISEE 2010 Conference - Early Bird Registration Ends 31 May 2010

ISEE 2010 Conference

Special section of Sociological Research Online on Epistemic Communities

Dear all,

this is to let you know that Sociological Research Online has just published an international, peer-reviewed Special Section on the theme of Epistemic Communities.

Introduction: The Dynamics of Epistemic Communities
   by  Morgan Meyer and Susan Molyneux-Hodgson
       http://www.socresonline.org.uk/15/2/14.html

From Comunities of Practice to Epistemic Communities: Health Mobilizations on the Internet
   by  Madeleine Akrich
       http://www.socresonline.org.uk/15/2/10.html

Caring for Weak Ties - the Natural History Museum as a Place of Encounter Between Amateur and Professional Science