[Air-l] CFP: Con/texts of Invention

[Dan L Burk]

Of possible interest, from Martha Woodmansee.  DLB


> Con/texts of Invention
> A working conference of the Society for Critical Exchange
> 
> With support from the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts at Case 
> Western Reserve University School of Law; the History of Science 
> Department at Harvard University; the Washington College of Law at 
> American University; and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical 
> Studies of Science at the University of Chicago
> 
> Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
> April 20-22, 2006
> 
> This conference interrogates the social and cultural construction of 
> invention - the diverse ways in which invention has been conceptualized
in 
> the arts and sciences in the broadest sense, including literature, the 
> fine arts, entertainment, the physical and life sciences, law, economics,

> medicine, engineering, agriculture, education, communications, 
> computation, finance, and business. Emphasis will be on the institutional

> cultures, rhetorics, and histories of invention across these fields. In 
> this way the Society seeks to extend and deepen the inquiry of its 
> long-standing project on "Intellectual Property and the Construction of 
> Authorship" (see www.cwru.edu/affil/sce/IPCA_main.html). Papers
reflecting 
> upon the impact of the "critique of authorship" will thus be especially 
> welcome. The conference will include lectures and panel discussions; to 
> facilitate discussion, papers selected for panels will circulate in 
> advance of the conference.
> 
> Topics may include (but are not limited to):
> 
> * the author as inventor * the inventor as author * imitation and 
> originality * psychologies of creativity * pathologies such as writer's 
> (or inventor's) block * genius * hack(ing) * tradition and the individual

> talent, including the anxiety of influence * forgery * crimes such as 
> plagiarism and piracy * the inventor as hero * invention vs. discovery * 
> simultaneous discovery * joint/collective invention * useful and useless 
> knowledge * the idea /expression distinction * invention vs. innovation *

> material and social inputs to invention * invention policy * narratives
of 
> invention * depictions of invention, including patent drawings *
invisible 
> invention * inventing organisms * invention in rhetorical theory * genre 
> and invention * invention and memory * invention in popular and
children's 
> literature * pedagogies of invention * invention and self-help, including

> creativity workshops and invention promotion services * cross-cultural 
> perspectives on invention * invention and power * imperialism and 
> invention * universities and invention * rhetorics of entrepreneurship * 
> representations of collaboration * corporate authorship/invention * 
> economies of invention * legal incentives and disincentives * private and

> public domains * discourses of intellectual commons, including free 
> software and open source * collage and sampling * geographies of
invention 
> * ethnography of invention * gender and invention
> 
> Please send paper abstracts (no full papers please), a CV of no more than

> three pages, and any suggestions for panel topics by October 5 to:
> dar29 at case.edu.
> 
> Conference Organizers:
> Olufunmilayo Arewa, Law, Case Western Reserve University
> Mario Biagioli, History of Science, Harvard University
> Peter Jaszi, Law, American University
> Adrian Johns, History of Science, University of Chicago
> Martha Woodmansee, English and Law, Case Western Reserve University

Dan L. Burk
Visiting Professor
Cornell Law School
Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor
University of Minnesota Law School
229 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
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