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Original Call for Papers
Conference Objectives
Participants' Notes
Paper Abstracts
Podcasts of Keynote Panels
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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Nick Petzak, SCE, Case Western Reserve U
Dawn Richards, Case School of Law