Participating in the panel are University of Western Ontario聽 Professor William Turkel; University of Toronto Professor Michelle Murphy; Queen's University Professor Sergio Sismundo; and 91亚色 Professor Darrin Durant. It will be moderated by 91亚色 anthropology Professor Natasha Myers.

A professor of history, Turkel is also the project director, for the Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada Strategic Knowledge Cluster . His research and teaching draws on, integrates and tries to extend a number of different disciplines, including environmental and public history, the histories of science and technology, 'big history', science and technology studies, computation, and studies of place and social memory.

Murphy's research interests include the history of technoscience, sex, gender, race, environmental politics and capitalism in the United States through transnational and post-colonial theoretical perspectives.聽 She is the author of Sick Building Syndrome and the Politics of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience and Women Workers (Duke University Press, 2006), which examines history of low-level exposures and the production of uncertainty in twentieth century American environmental politics, with a focus on labor and office buildings.

Sismundo's research explores the philosophical consequences of seeing science as a thoroughly social activity. He is examining how historical and sociological work on the practice of science affect our views of a diverse set of issues in the philosophy of science, from the realism/anti-realism debate to the scope of standpoint epistemologies.

Durant's primary field of research concerns nuclear waste disposal, specifically debates over technical assessments and policy-making priorities between credentialed experts, the lay public and social movements. His theoretical interests focus upon the links between topics in STS (such as lay public involvement in technical controversies) and political philosophy (such as different notions of democracy, the issue of minority and majority rights, the controversy over the role of social identities in democratic decision-making, the perils of counter-cultural thinking, and the unfortunate withering of the idea of a common good).

Meyers is an anthropologist working in the field of science and technology. Her research examines the lively visual cultures that thrive in contemporary life science laboratories and classrooms. She is curious about how laboratories operate as spaces for producing scientists and tracks how pedagogy and training shape forms of knowing, ways of seeing and modes of embodiment in the practical cultures of technoscience.

The panel is free and open to the community. For more information, visit the Science & Technology Studies website.

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鈥淭he First (Known) Statistical Graph: Michael Florent van Langren and the 'Secret' of Longitude鈥� will take place Tuesday, Nov. 30, from 12:30 to 2pm in Norman鈥檚, 203 Bethune College, Keele campus. All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

Right: Michael Friendly

Chair of the graduate program in Quantitative Methods at 91亚色 and an associate coordinator with the , Friendly knows a thing or two about statistics. He has broad experience in data analysis, statistics and computer applications.

In addition, he is the author of SAS System for Statistical Graphics, 1st Edition, and Visualizing Categorical Data, both published by the SAS Institute. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.

His recent work includes the further development of graphical methods for categorical data and multivariate linear models, as well as work on the history of data visualization.

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Throughout November, the Vari Hall Rotunda will play host to displays and demonstrations featuring our faculty and graduate researchers. Drop by between 10 am and 2 pm each Wednesday to learn what 91亚色's researchers are doing.

The Research Month index on 91亚色's Research website contains complete information about the researchers, research centres and research support groups participating in the event.

Social sciences and humanities research 鈥� Nov. 3

Confirmed participants include:

• Institute for Science聽& Technology Studies
• 91亚色 Centre for Education聽& Community

Science and engineering research 鈥� Nov. 10

Confirmed participants include:

Health research 鈥� Nov.17

Confirmed participants include:

• Professor Joseph DeSouza, Faculty of Health, Department of Psychology
• Professor , Faculty of Health, School of Nursing
• Professor Jennifer Kuk, Faculty of Health, School of Kinesiology & Health Science
• Professor Gail Mitchell, Faculty of Health, School of Nursing
• Professor Jennine Rawana, Faculty of Health, Department of Psychology
• Professor Rose Steele, Faculty of Health, School of Nursing
• LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence聽& Conflict Resolution
• 91亚色 Institute for Health Research

Fine and performing arts research 鈥� Nov. 24

Confirmed participants include:

Want to participate?

Do you have completed works, prototypes, technology, or works in progress that you could demonstrate? Do you have graduate/undergraduate students working with you who could assist and help talk about the work? If you have other ideas, we would love to hear about them.

Interested faculty members or research centres should contact Elizabeth Monier-Williams in the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation at ext. 21069 or eamw@yorku.ca. Please note that space is limited and allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Other research-related events

These research-related events will also be running in November:

• Nov. 6 鈥� , featuring Professor Poonam Puri聽from聽Osgoode Hall Law School and Professor Steven Gaetz聽from the Faculty of Education among other speakers.
• Nov. 10 鈥� Toward a Behavioral Neuroscience of Parenting, sponsored by the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Health.
• Nov. 24 & 25 鈥� at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (by invitation only).
• Nov. 26 鈥� Campus visit from Suzanne Fortier, president of the .
• Nov. 30 鈥� Campus visit from David Malone, president of .

By Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer

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The Victorian Studies Network at 91亚色

Faculty and students from English, history, political science, science & technology, and the Scott Library will discuss their current scholarship during the symposium, which will take place Oct. 22, from 10am to 2:45pm, 203A Norman Bethune College, Keele campus.

The morning session, moderated by Katey Anderson of the Department of Humanities, will start with聽Alison Halsall of the Department of English discussing 鈥淭he Polysemic Pliancy of Elizabeth Siddal in H. D.'s White Rose and the Red". The manuscript , had never been published and instead had been tucked away in archives until Halsall's edited聽version was published last year.

Next on the program will be 91亚色 student Benjamin Mitchell鈥檚 talk on 鈥淪omewhere Between Light and Shadow: Alfred Russel Wallace, Spirit Photography and the Trial of Henry Slade鈥�. Wallace was a British naturalist and聽an associate聽of Charles Darwin. Scott Library Librarian Scott McLaren will then聽look at 鈥淭he Unmapped Country Within Us: New Acquisitions in Victorian Print Culture鈥�.

In the afternoon session, moderated by of the Department of Humanities, 91亚色 student Constance Crompton will talk about 鈥淏uilding Gentility: Eugen Sandow and Middle-Class Masculine Muscles鈥�. This will be followed by history Professor 鈥檚 look at 鈥溾�楢 Strange Dice-Box of a World鈥�: The Transcolonial Careers of Henry Samuel Chapman鈥� and a talk by Melinda Baldwin 鈥� 鈥溾�業 Wish I Were Wise Enough to Understand More of it鈥�: 狈补迟耻谤别鈥檚 Audience, 1869-1880鈥�.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

The VSNY is an interdisciplinary network whose membership spans a range of departments and programs across 91亚色. The symposium is sponsored by the Office of the Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

For more information, visit the VSNY website.

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Left: Naomi Oreskes

Oreskes, who is聽an adjunct professor of geosciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and provost of Sixth College at UC San Diego, began her career as an exploration geologist working in the mining industry in the Australian outback. For the past 20 years, she has studied the process of consensus and dissent in science.

The central questions that inform her research are: How do scientists decide when a fact is established? How do they judge how much evidence is sufficient to deem something scientifically demonstrated? And what happens when scientists can鈥檛 agree?

Oreskes will be at 91亚色 to talk about her new book,聽Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury Press, 2010).

In the book, Oreskes and her co-author Erik Conway, an historian of science affiliated with the California Institute of Technology, explore how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists, with extensive political connections, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.

In seven chapters addressing tobacco, acid rain, the ozone hole, global warming and DDT, Oreskes and Conway roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how the ideology of free market fundamentalism, aided by a compliant media, has skewed public understanding of the most pressing issues of our era.

Oreskes鈥� lecture marks the official launch of 91亚色鈥檚 new Institute for Science & Technology Studies.聽The institute, which launches today, was created to be a focal point for science聽and technology studies in Canada. Science聽& Technology Studies is聽a burgeoning field not only in Canada, but also the world, as scholars in humanities and social studies develop increasingly sophisticated intellectual and methodological tools for engaging with techno-scientific knowledge, practice and artifacts.

For more on the new institute, visit the Science & Technology Studies website.

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