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Con/texts of Invention:
A Working Conference of the Society for Critical Exchange

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
April 20-23, 2006

With support from the Department of English and the School of Law's Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts at Case Western Reserve University; the History of Science Department at Harvard University; the Washington College of Law at American University; and the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago


PROGRAM

As a "working" conference, Con/texts of Invention will not be open to the public, but the University community is welcome to attend sessions free of charge with a Case ID. Limited space will also be available for a charge at the social events. Those interested in attending these should contact Dawn Richards ( dar29@case.edu or 368-5135).

In the interest of discussion, conference papers will not be delivered orally but will instead be posted and should be read in advance.

Thurday, April 20

7:30 - 10:30 p.m. Buffet Reception, Glidden House.

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Friday, April 21

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
GENIUS REVISITED: INSPIRATION/PERSPIRATION (Gund 158)
Chair and comments: Lisa Gitelman, Media Studies, Catholic U

1. Inspiration and Innovation
   Roberta Kwall, Law, DePaul U

2. The Fuel of Interest and the Fire of Genius
  Oren Bracha, Law, U of Texas

3. Thomas Edison and the Forms of Invention
  James Brooke-Smith, English, New York U

4. Invention and Originality in the Law of Obscenity
  Amy Adler, Law, New York U

9:00-10:30 a.m.
PERSONHOOD, THE BODY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY(Gund 159)
Chair and comments: Lisa Maruca, Interdisciplinary Studies, Wayne State U

1. Runaway Bride: Self-Possession and the Conditions of Intellectual Property
  Joseph Loewenstein, English, Washington U

2. Advertising Cadavers in the Republic of Letters
  Daniel Margocsy, History of Science, Harvard U

3. Invention and Agency in Patent Law
  Hyo Yoon Kang, London School of Economics

10:45 - 12:15 p.m.
LIFE, DEATH AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Gund 158)
Chair and comments: Mary Poovey, English, New York U

1. The Rise of Intellectual Property Rights in Seed Germplasm
  Keith Aoki, Law, U of Oregon

2. Breeding, Ownership, and Agriculture:   Intellectual Property Protection in Animals since the      Late 18 th Century
   Daniel Kevles, History and Law, Yale U

3. Rac-ing Patents/Patenting Race: An Emerging Political Geography of Intellectual Property in     Biomedicine
  Jonathan Kahn, Law, Hamline U

12:15 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Glidden House

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
DEMOCRATIZING INVENTION (Gund 158)
Chair and comments: Christine MacLeod, Historical Studies, U of Bristol

1. "Ours and For Us": Invention and Working Class Power in the British Useful Knowledge   Movement
  Michael Rectenwald, English, Carnegie Mellon U

2. The Wondrous Childhood of the Wright Brothers: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Inventive   Boyhood
  Aaron L. Alcorn, History, Case Western Reserve U

3. ©®EA TM : Intellectual Property Education Contest and Resource Guides for Grades 2-12
  Brenda Wojnowski, Inventive Education, Inc., National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
SERIAL COLLABORATION (Gund 159)
Chair and comments: Peter Jaszi, Law, American U

1. Networks of Innovation: The Emergence and Diffusion of DNA Microarray Technology
  Tim Lenoir and Eric Giannella, History of Science, Duke U

2. Copy-Write: Eighteenth-Century Educational Technologies of Imitation and Invention
  Lisa Maruca, Interdisciplinary Studies, Wayne State U

3.Originality and the Law: The Case of W.H. Ireland's Shakespeare Forgeries
  Robert Miles, English, U Victoria

3:15 - 4:45 p.m.
OPEN SOURCE, FREE SOFTWARE, CREATIVE COMMONS (Gund 158)
Chair and comments: Michael Madison, Law, U of Pittsburgh

1. Positive Copyright and Creative Commons Licenses: How to Make a Marriage Work
  Maurizio Borghi, History, and Maria Lillà Montagnani , Law, Bocconi U, Milan

2. Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit
  Niva Elkin-Koren, Law, U of Haifa

3. The Commodification and Exchange of Knowledge: Transnational Yoga
  Allison Fish, Cultural Anthropology, U of California, Irvine

3:15 - 4:45 p.m.
AUTHORS IN LAW (Gund 159)
Chair and comments:   Lewis Hyde, Creative Writing, Kenyon

1. Ghostwriting, Pro Se Litigants, and the Legal Culture of Plagiarism
  Jonathan Entin, Law and Political Science, Case Western Reserve U

2. Authoring an Invention: Nineteenth-Century American Law and Patent Authorship
  Kara Swanson, History of Science, Harvard U

3. What Is a Judicial Author?
  Peter Friedman, Law, Case Western Reserve U

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
AUTHORS AND OTHERS (Gund 158)
Chair and comments: James Leach, Social Anthropology, Cambridge U

1. Eighteenth-Century Fan Fiction and Copyright Law
  Elizabeth Judge, Law, U of Ottawa

2. EMACS, grep, and UNIX: Authorship, Invention and Translation in Software
  Christopher Kelty, Anthropology, Rice U

3. An Economic Model of Sampling, Cover Versions, and Musical Collage
   Peter DiCola, Economics, U of Michigan

4. "Your Second Life? The Performativity of Intellectual Property in Online Games"
   Rosemary Coombe, Law, and Cultural Studies, York U; and Andrew Herman, Sociology,      Laurier U

6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Cocktails, Blackacre lounge, Gund

Dinner on Your Own

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Saturday, April 22


9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
ENVISIONING INVENTION (Gund 158)
Chair and comments: Mark Rose, English, U of California, Santa Barbara

1. Margins of Invention: Re-dedicating Women's Prints in Early Modern Italy
  Evelyn Lincoln, History of Art and Architecture, Brown U

2. Bureaucracy at a Glance: Visual Evidence and U.S. Patents, 1790-2005
  William Rankin, History of Science, History of Architecture, Harvard U

3. Images of Innovation: Art and Visual Culture in Patent Drawings
  Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, History, Yale U, and Ellen Levy, College Art Association

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
WHAT IS AN AUTHOR NOW? (Gund 158)
Chair and comments: Joshua Sarnoff, Law, American U

1. Happenstantial Authorship: The Element of Surprise in Faith-Based Human Cloning
  Debbora Battaglia, Anthropology, Mount Holyoke C

2. The Penguin's Paradox: Political Economy of International Intellectual Property and the    Paradox of Open Source
  David W. Opderbeck, Law, Baruch C, CUNY

3. Inventive Artefacts: The Legal Agency of Plants
  Alain Pottage, London School of Economics, and Brad Sherman, Law, U of Queensland,

10:45 - 12:15 p.m.
COLLECTIVES (Gund 159)
Chair and comments: Wendy Gordon, Law, Boston U

1. Co-inventors and Co-authors: A Quantitative Analysis of Patent-Publication Pairs
  Francesco Lissoni, Economics, Bocconi U, Milan, and Fabio Montobbio, Economics, Insubria   U, Varese

2. Screen Credit for Everyone
  Catherine Fisk, Law, Duke U

3. Patenting the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons and/as Intellectual Property
  Alex Wellerstein, History of Science, Harvard U

12:15 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Blackacre lounge, Gund

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGES (Gund 158)
Chair and comments: Marc Perlman, Music, Brown U

1. Problem(s) with Copyright for Native American Oral Traditions
  Emily Clark, English, Case Western Reserve U

2. From Homeric Epic to Open-Source Software: Towards a Network Model of Invention
  Dorothy Noyes, English and Anthropology, Ohio State U

3. The Imaginary Politics of Access to Knowledge
  Jane Anderson, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, and Kathy   Bowrey, Law, U of New South Wales

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
INTERROGATING KEY CONCEPTS (Gund 159)
Chair and comments: Craig Nard, Law, Case Western Reserve U

1. Novelty, Decorum, and the Commodification of Invention in the Renaissance
  Carolyn Miller, English, North Carolina State U

2. Frames from the Framers
  Lewis Hyde, Creative Writing, Kenyon C

3. Creation Myths: Mapping Originality in Space and Time
  Graham Dutfield and Uma Suthersanen, Law, Queen Mary U, London

4. Publishers, Privateers, Pirates
   Martha Woodmansee, English and Law, Case Western Reserve U

3:30 p.m.
Departure for Milan, Ohio, birthplace of Thomas Alva Edison and epicenter of American innovation, as exemplified not only by the career of Edison but also that of his neighbor, Isaac W. Hoover, father of the Potato Digger and other potato-related innovations (for details, see: www.milanohio.com)

7:00 p.m.
Dinner at Culinary Vegetable Institute, Milan, Ohio (for details, see: www.culinaryvegetableinstitute.com)

8:30 - 10:00 p.m.
HEROES AND HERO WORSHIP (Culinary Institute)
Chair and comments: Adrian Johns, History of Science, U of Chicago

1. Heroes of the Industrial Revolution, Defenders of the Pax Britannica: Constructing Inventors in   Victorian Britain
  Christine MacLeod, Historical Studies, U of Bristol

2. The Flash of Genius: Defining Invention in the Era of Corporate Research
  Paul Israel, Thomas A. Edison Archives, Rutgers U

3. Codes of Value
  Gabriella Coleman, Anthropology, Rutgers U

 

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Sunday, April 23

9:00 - 10:45 a.m.
NETWORKS OF INVENTION (Gund 158)
Chair and comments: Lionel Bently, Law, Cambridge U

1. Technology and Invention: Communication Systems and the Problem of Technodeterminism
  Clifford Siskin, English, New York U, and William Warner, English, U of California, Santa   Barbara

2. The Ingenuity of Film Genre
  Jane Gaines, Literature, Duke U

3. Reinventing the Wheel: Classification on and of Digital Networks
  Lisa Gitelman, Media Studies, Catholic U

4. Of Monks, Medieval Scribes, and Middlemen
  Peter Yu, Law, Michigan State U

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
REPORTS OF THE AUTHOR'S DEATH HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED: DEBATING AN AGENDA FOR RESEARCH AND ACTION (Gund 158)

1. Mario Biagioli, History of Science, Harvard U

2. Peter Jaszi, Law, American U

3. Martha Woodmansee, English and Law, Case Western Reserve U

 


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