[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle, April 2nd - Stephen Hilgartner - (Please RSVP)

[STS]

 *STS Circle at Harvard*
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*Stephen Hilgartner
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*Cornell, STS*
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*Dis·en·closing Science***
 Monday, April 2nd
12:15-2:00 p.m.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106

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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP to sts
<sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<sts at hks.harvard.edu>by 5pm
Thursday, March 29th.
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*Abstract:* 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 *disenclosure* 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 *control the distribution
of knowledge*, shaping who gets access to what knowledge, when, and under
what terms and conditions? and (2) how do actors work to *distribute
control over knowledge*, 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.

*Biography*: *Stephen Hilgartner* 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 *Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public
Drama* won the Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science.
Recent publications include “Intellectual Property and the Politics of
Emerging Technology” (*Chicago-Kent Law Review, *2010), “Staging
High-Visibility Science: Media Orientation in Genome Research,” (*Sociology
of the Sciences Yearbook*, 2011), and “Selective Flows of Knowledge in
Technoscientific Interaction” (*British Journal for History of Science*, in
press).


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