[Sci-tech-public] April 11: "States of Secrecy"

[Alex Wellerstein]

STATES OF SECRECY:
SCIENTIFIC SECRECY FROM ALCHEMY TO THE ATOMIC BOMB

A TRANSHISTORICAL CONFERENCE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Saturday, April 11, 2009
Science Center 469
www.statesofsecrecy.net

Everyone is welcome. Email Daniel Margocsy (margocsy at fas.harvard.edu)  
for pre-circulated papers.

Please forward to interested parties.

Program:

9:00-10:15  - The Philosophy of Secrets (Chair: Katharine Park,  
Harvard University)

"Openness versus Secrecy: Some Historical and Conceptual Issues"
Koen Vermeir (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

"Galen of Pergamun: Between the Logical and the Exegetical Method"
Marco Viniegra (Harvard University)

10:45-12:00  -  The Politics of Early Modern Secrecy (Chair: Alisha  
Rankin, Tufts University)

"Commerce and Secrecy in Early Modern Jewry"
Daniel Jütte (University of Heidelberg)

"Secret Communication and the Origins of Modern Science and Espionage"
Kristie Macrakis (Georgia Institute of Technology)

1:30-2:45  -  Confidentiality, Patenting and Trade Secrets (Chair:  
Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University)

"Good Secrecy: Constructing Confidentiality In Early Modern Science  
and Technology"
Mario Biagioli (Harvard University)

"Patenting Secrets, Open Knowledge and the Invention of Color Printing"
Daniel Margocsy (Harvard University)

3:15-4:30 -  Secrecy in Twentieth-Century Big Science (Chair: Sheila  
Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School)

"Secrecy and the Bomb from Postwar to Cold War"
Alex Wellerstein (Harvard University)

"Information Control in Genome Research"
Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University)

5:00-6:00  -  Keynote and Overall Discussion

"Transhistorical Secrecy"
Peter Galison (Harvard University)

6:00-7:00 - Reception

STATES OF SECRECY is organized by Daniel Margocsy (Harvard  
University), Koen Vermeir (University of Leuven), and Alex  
Wellerstein (Harvard University).
It has been sponsored by the Program on Science, Technology, and  
Society at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the following Working  
Groups in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard  
University: Early Sciences Working Group, the Modern Science Working  
Group, the Bodies of Knowledge Work Group, the History of Medicine  
Working Group, Medieval/Early Modern Latin and Early Modern/Modern  
French Research Group, and the Dissertation Writer's Working Group.

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