[PHILOS-L] Change of venue | Peter Galison (Harvard) Ca' Foscari University Venice, 13.10.2025 (tomorrow)
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Dear all,
Please note the venue for the TiPS (https://www.unive.it/web/en/7380/home) Inaugural Lecture (Year Two) has changed:
Peter L. Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University)
Title: Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon
Date & Time: Monday, October 13, 2025, 16:00–17:30 (Venice time)
Venue: Sala Conferenze, Palazzo Cosulich (ground floor) Fondamenta Zattere, Dorsoduro 1405, 30123 Venezia
Chair: Dr. Matteo Vagelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Abstract: More than a half century ago, Michel Foucault published “What is an Author?” arguing that this notion did not inhere in the person, but instead resulted from the mechanisms by which works fix the author. What about scientific authorship? Large-scale collaborations have grown from a few dozen scientists in the 1950s to three-thousand-strong behemoths in the 2000s. Such massive groupings embrace a wide range of technical cultures that must forge local, shared languages and techniques (trading zones). To explore these dynamics, we consider two contrasting examples that reveal much about contemporary knowledge (in science) and epistemological decision-making (democratic deliberation). The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) of 2019 had a flat organizational structure—an elective affinity binding together 200+ collaborators scattered across continents, institutions, and specialties. That work issued in the first image of a black hole, seen by a billion people. Building on the EHT is a space mission now in formation, the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX). With a strictly hierarchical framework characteristic of NASA, BHEX aims to achieve the highest resolution image in the history of astronomy—with completely different dynamics of author function. Together, in commonalities and contrasts, these flat and vertical collaborations, with their myriad coordinated subcultures, can help us frame the creation of collaborative knowledge practiced today.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion with the audience.
For further information, including online attendance, please contact:
Dr. Matteo Vagelli – matteo....@unive.it
We look forward to “seeing” you there!
Peter L. Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University)
Title: Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon
Date & Time: Monday, October 13, 2025, 16:00–17:30 (Venice time)
Venue: Sala Conferenze, Palazzo Cosulich (ground floor) Fondamenta Zattere, Dorsoduro 1405, 30123 Venezia
Chair: Dr. Matteo Vagelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Abstract: More than a half century ago, Michel Foucault published “What is an Author?” arguing that this notion did not inhere in the person, but instead resulted from the mechanisms by which works fix the author. What about scientific authorship? Large-scale collaborations have grown from a few dozen scientists in the 1950s to three-thousand-strong behemoths in the 2000s. Such massive groupings embrace a wide range of technical cultures that must forge local, shared languages and techniques (trading zones). To explore these dynamics, we consider two contrasting examples that reveal much about contemporary knowledge (in science) and epistemological decision-making (democratic deliberation). The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) of 2019 had a flat organizational structure—an elective affinity binding together 200+ collaborators scattered across continents, institutions, and specialties. That work issued in the first image of a black hole, seen by a billion people. Building on the EHT is a space mission now in formation, the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX). With a strictly hierarchical framework characteristic of NASA, BHEX aims to achieve the highest resolution image in the history of astronomy—with completely different dynamics of author function. Together, in commonalities and contrasts, these flat and vertical collaborations, with their myriad coordinated subcultures, can help us frame the creation of collaborative knowledge practiced today.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion with the audience.
For further information, including online attendance, please contact:
Dr. Matteo Vagelli – matteo....@unive.it
We look forward to “seeing” you there!
Matteo
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