[Discussion] CFP: Con/texts of Invention working conference (10/5/05; 4/20/06-4/22/06)

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From: "Kurt M. Koenigsberger" <kmk25@case.edu>

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
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@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


________________________________

Kurt Koenigsberger
Assistant Professor of English
Associate Director
Society for Critical Exchange
Case Western Reserve University
222 Guilford House
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7117

216.368.6994
kurt.koenigsberger@case.edu



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