Programme

Please Note

All papers will be pre-circulated and read before the conference. Authors get 5 minutes to introduce their papers. Commentators have about 15 minutes to discuss, followed by group discussion.

Thursday, April 12


TIME


EVENT


COMMENTATOR

14:30–14:45

Informal welcome and coffee

14:45–15:30

Opening (Mody, Roberts, Sibum): Rationale, Programme Overview, Participant Introductions


SESSION I (Chair: Roberts)

15:30–16:15

Matthias Dörries: "Fraud and Self-regard at the Académie des Sciences"

Mody

16:15–17:00

Heather Ellis: "Defining Research Integrity in Britain’s Literary and Philosophical Societies, 1780-1840"

Shahare

19:00–

Informal dinner (by invitation) at Heart & Bones

Friday, April 13


TIME


EVENT


COMMENTATOR

09:00– 09:15

Informal welcome and coffee


SESSION II (Chair: Supran)

09:15–09:30

Opening

09:30–10:15

Tatjana Buklijas: "Science and Publicity in Fin-De-Siècle Vienna: The Sex Ratio Theory of (embryologist) Samuel Leopold Schenk"

Sibum

10:15–11:00

Joseph Gabriel (and Bennett Holman): "Clinical Trials and the Origins of Pharmaceutical Fraud: Parke, Davis & Company and the History of the Fundamental Antagonism"

Franta

11:00–11:15

Break


SESSION III (Chair: Mody)

11:15–12:00

Joris Mercelis: "Defining the Boundaries of Academic Corruption: Commissioned Expert Opinions in Germany, c. 1890-1940"

Ellis

12:00–12:45

H. Otto Sibum: "When is Enough Enough? Replication and the Integrity of Scientific Research"

Gabriel

12:45–13:45

Lunch


SESSION IV (Chair: Roberts)

13:45–14:30

Michael Barany: "Impersonation and Personification in Mid-Century Mathematics"

Arbel

14:30–15:15

Matthew Hayes: "UFOs and the Conquest of Gravity in Wilbert Smith’s 'New Science'”

Mercelis

15:15–15:30

Break


SESSION V (Chair: Sibum)

15:30–16:15

Mahendra Shahare: "Making and Breaking Scientific Fraud in India"

Park

16:15–17:00

Michael Pettit: "Replication in Psychology: Historical Dispatches from a Discipline on Fire"

Barany
17:00 Break

17:00–19:00

Drinks at Hörnan

19:00–

Conference dinner (by invitation) at PepparPeppar

Saturday, April 14


TIME


EVENT


COMMENTATOR

09:00–09:15

Informal welcome and coffee


SESSION VI (Chair: Mody)

09:15–09:30

Opening

09:30–10:15

Tal Arbel: "Executives of the Mind: The Moral Economy of Postwar Survey Research"

Buklijas

10:15–11:00

Buhm Soon Park: "The Sociotechnical Construction of Fraud: Reflections on the Historicity of the Hwang Case" 

Hayes

11:00–11:15

Break


SESSION VII (Chair: Roberts)

11:15–12:00

Geoffrey Supran (and Naomi Oreskes): "Measuring Doubt – Assessing ExxonMobil’s Climate Change Communications (1977-2014)"

Pettit

12:00–12:45

Ben Franta: "Weaponizing Economics: Charles River Associates and the Decades-Long Sabotage of Climate Policy"

Dörries

12:45–13:45

Lunch


SESSION VIII (Chair: Sibum)

13:45–14:30

Cyrus Mody: What Are the Patterns? (general discussion & conclusions)

14:30–15:00

Lissa Roberts: Wrapping it up (next steps, publication plans)

15:00 Closing (Sibum)

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