Owning and Disowning Invention

Owning and Disowning Invention

AHRC Project Workshop March 2009

University of Leeds (in partnership with University of Bristol)

Day 1 Pre-workshop reception Monday 23rd March 2009

Department ofPhilosophyFoyer 5pm

First floor MichaelSadlerBuilding, building 68

Dinner 7pm in local restaurant: L’Oranaise with North African food (to be confirmed) 1 the Crescent, (just off Woodhouse Lane), LS6 2NW

Day 2: Workshop on Tuesday 24th March

Brotherton Room, first floor Brotherton Library University of Leeds

See building 59 on the campus map (access through the Parkinson Building 60)

9.10-9.30 Welcome (Graeme Gooday), coffeeand introductions

9.30-10.45 session 1: plant breeding

Paper 1 (5min) Greg Radick Truth, Usefulness and Mendelism: The Weldon-Bateson Debate Revisited

Paper 2 (5min) Berris Charnley Mendelism in British Agricultural Science, 1901-1926: systematic activity in the practical sciences

Commentator (20min) Jonathan Harwood

Responses (5 min)

Discussion (40 min)

10.45-11.15 break/tea coffee

11.15-12.30 session 2: aeronautics

Paper 3 (5min) Jon Hopwood-LewisThe Discourse of Invention and Discovery in the Aeronautical Journal, 1897 - 1903

Paper 4 (5min) Chris MacLeodRunway to riches? Aviation and the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1919-1937

Commentator (20min) David Edgerton

Responses (5 min)

Discussion (40 min)

12.30-13.30 lunch

1.30-2.45 session 3: electrical technology

Paper 5 (5min) Graeme Gooday Who was ‘the true and first inventor’? (Un)making patents and authority in early telephone disputes

Paper 6 (5min) Stathis Arapostathis Lamps Socially Constructed:Managing Patents, Identities and Ownership in Britain, 1878-1920

Commentator (20min) Ben Marsden

Responses (5 min)

Discussion (40 min)

2.45 – 3.15 break/tea coffee

3.15-4.30 session 4: further perspectives

Paper 7 (5min) Robert Bud Making sense of change: 'applied science' and the promise of meaning amidst industrial revolution

Paper 8 (5min) Simone TurchettiPatenting the Atom: the controversial management of secrecy and intellectual property rights in nuclear research.

Commentator (20min)Graham Dutfield

Responses (5 min)

Discussion (40 min)

4.30-5.00 pm concluding remarks and comments by Anna Guagnini

Accommodation for invited speakers and commentators

Cliff Lawn Hotel ( which is located close to the university campus. The Address is: Cliff Road, Headingley, Leeds, UK, LS6 2ET (please visit the hotel’s site for full directions)