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<div><font size="4"><b>Stephen Hilgartner <br></b></font></div>
<i>Cornell, STS</i>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:200%">Dis·en·closing Science</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:200%"></span></b><br>
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<div>Monday, April 2nd</div>
<div><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room
106<br><br></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Please RSVP to</font> <a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">sts</font></a><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">@hks.harvard.edu</font></a><font color="#000000"> by
5pm Thursday, March 29th.</font></div>
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<div><b>Abstract:</b>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This
paper argues that debate about openness in science and technology is too wedded
to simplistic oppositions between open and closed, public and private, or
enclosure or disclosure, often paying inadequate attention to the specific
practices and regimes through which various forms of control over knowledge are
constituted. The neologism <span></span><i>disenclosure</i> is employed to capture the
dynamic and often dialectical process through which various forms of control
over knowledge are effected. My goal is to facilitate analysis of two coupled
and in some ways reciprocal questions: (1) through what practices do actors
attempt to </span><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">control the
distribution of knowledge</i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, shaping who gets access to what knowledge, when,
and under what terms and conditions? and (2) how do actors work to </span><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">distribute control over knowledge</i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,
shaping the allocation of entitlements and burdens regarding access to, use of,
management of, and liability for knowledge. The paper explores these themes
through an analysis of specific examples from genomics and synthetic biology. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span>
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<div><b>Biography</b>:
<font><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Stephen Hilgartner</span></i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of
Science & Technology Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences. His
research examines the social dimensions and politics of contemporary and
emerging science and technology, especially in the biosciences. Hilgartner is a
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His book <i>Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public
Drama</i> won the Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Recent
publications include “Intellectual Property and the Politics of Emerging
Technology” (<i>Chicago-Kent Law Review, </i>2010),
“Staging High-Visibility Science: Media Orientation in Genome Research,” (<i>Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook</i>, 2011),
and “Selective Flows of Knowledge in Technoscientific Interaction” (<i>British Journal for History of Science</i>, in
press). </span></font>
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