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The ninth Berlin Summer Academy will explore the relationships between science, technology, and the law. Science and law are both centrally concerned with matters of truth, evidence, and proof, yet they have produced contrasting systems of theory and practice that often co-exist uneasily or collide head-on with one another. The Summer Academy 1999 will examine five themes in historical and cross-cultural perspective: scientists as expert witnesses; cases in science and law; patents and priority; law, technology, and the life sciences; and scientific property.
The Summer Academy will be held
16 - 27 August 1999
at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. During the first week an intensive seminar will be held for participating junior scholars (advanced graduate students and postdocs) in preparation for the conference during the second week. The seminar, led by Michael Hagner (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) and Robert Proctor (Pennsylvania State University, USA), will concentrate on the discussion of pre-circulated texts, including the papers for the second week conference, by leading scholars in the fields of legal history and the history of science. Seminarians will also have the opportunity to prepare commentaries on these papers, to be presented during the conference.
Organizing Committee: Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), John Forrester (University of Cambridge), Peter Galison (Harvard University), Everett Mendelsohn (Harvard University), Hans-Jorg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge), and M. Norton Wise (Princeton University), assisted by Jens Lachmund (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) and Hans Pols (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).
Applications should include a curriculum vitae and a brief (500 words) description of current research interests, and be sent by 1 March 1999 to:
Research Co-ordinator
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Wilhelmstr. 44
10117 Berlin
Germany
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science will cover the travel and accommodation costs of successful applicants. Questions should be addressed to Jochen Schneider, jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
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