TORONTO, January 13, 2003 --York University resumes its ninth annual Brownbag Research Seminar series, January through to April 2003. The seminars provide a public, interdisciplinary forum for scholars in many fields, including science and technology, culture and the humanities, to share the latest results of their research.
Dr. Nancy Olivieri (Medicine, UofT) launched the winter program with her discussion of the obligations and obstacles for medical researchers in an era of corporate science, and the incautious licensing of drugs and food.
The seminars are usually held Tuesdays, 12 to 2 p.m., in the Harry Crowe Room in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies building (except where noted). A sampling of winter seminars follows:
Intellectual Property and the Entrepreneurial Academe – January 21
Vincent di Norcia (Philosophy, University of Sudbury) – the growing debate over intellectual property rights resulting from close ties between university researchers and commercial interests;
Financial Manias and Panics: A Socio-Economic Perspective – February 4
Brenda Spotton Visano (Economics, York U.) – sociological aspects of financial instability caused by economic speculation, manias and panics;
Prosthetics in World War I – February 25
Matthew Price (History, UofT) – social attitudes towards disabled soldiers in France and Germany, the maimed body and its repair, relations between mind, body and machine;
Gripped by a Python: How Pharmaceutical Companies Control the Medical Marketplace – (Room 320, Bethune College), Thursday, February 27, 12:30 to 2 p.m.
David Healy (Psychopharmacology, University of North Wales) – the marketing of psychotropic drugs for mental distress in primary care settings, and the portrayal of mental health conditions in advertising by pharmaceutical companies;
The Impact of the Use of Social Science and Historical Evidence on Supreme Court of Canada Decisions – April 8
Ian Greene (Political Science, York U.) – an examination cases in which the Supreme Court of Canada relied heavily on social science or historical evidence in its decision-making process.
For a complete listing of the seminars, speakers, and available abstracts, visit: http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/brownbag.
-30-
For further information, please contact:
| Prof. Luigi M Bianchi | Ken Turriff |
| Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies | Media Relations |
| York University | York University |
| lbianchi@yorku.ca | 416-736-2100, ext. 22086 |
| kturriff@yorku.ca |
YU/003/03
