Preliminary Program
Registration, October 26, 2007 3-4pm Telus
Centre
Session A (two concurrent panels - 4:00
- 5:40)
Panel A1: Emplacing Identity and Health
Chair: Christopher Fletcher, Associate
Professor, Anthropology, University of Alberta
Celeste Henery, University of Texas at
Austin
With Our Songs: Black
Women's Collective Health and Activism – A Contribution
from Brazil
Hugo De Burgos, University of British Columbia,
Okanagan
Placing Illness in Cultural Territory in Nicaragua
Jody Decker, Wilfrid Laurier University
The Contested Nature of Health, Disease and Illness and
Their Intersections with Place
Brenda Parlee, University of Alberta
Resource Development
and the Transformation of Place
Panel A2: Community Building, Place
and Profession
Chair: Erika Dyck, Assistant Professor,
History/Division of Studies in Medical Education, University
of Alberta
Victoria Blake, Durham University
Placing Professionalisation: the Role of Medical Associations
in North East England, 1848-1914
Jonathan Reinarz, University of Birmingham
Putting Medicine in its Place: Geographies of Medicine
in Provincial England
Peter Twohig, St. Mary's University
Education, Expertise and Occupational Identity: The case
of staffing Saskatchewan's Hospitals, 1945-1960
Friday, October 26, 2007 – 7:30pm Banquet/Reception
Normands Restaurant
11639-Jasper Avenue Telephone (780) 482-2600
Welcoming Remarks: Erika Dyck and Christopher Fletcher, on behalf of the Organizing Committee
Opening Address: Rob Shields, Henry
Marshall Tory Chair, Sociology, University of Alberta
Saturday,
October 27, 2007 – Telus Conference Centre
8:30-9:00
Coffee/Breakfast
9:00-10:40
Session 1 (two concurrent sessions)
Panel A1: The Body Politic of Place
Chair: Christopher Dooley, PhD Candidate,
Department of History, York University
Christine Schreyer, University of Alberta
T'aakhú Téixh'i” The Heart of the
Taku: Metaphors of body and the Taku River Tlingit
Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta
Place and Canadian Abortion Politics
Barb Keith, Clinical Supervisor, Addictions,
Aboriginal Wellness Program, Vancouver Coastal Health
The Greener Grass Construct: Exploring Healthcare and
Location
Panel A2: The Ideal and the Region
Chair: Megan Davies, Associate Professor,
Centre for Health and Society, York University
Geertje Boschma, University of British
Columbia
Region and Rehabilitation in the Deinstitutionalization
Era, 1950-1980
Geoffrey Hudson, Northern Ontario School
of Medicine
Regions and Disability Politics in Ontario, 1975-1985
Sarah Glassford, AMS Nursing History Research Unit, University of Ottawa
A "Made in Canada"
Plan?: The Canadian Red Cross Society Translates International
Health Priorities into National, Provincial, and Local Action,
1919-1939
Alvin Finkel, Athabasca University
Why the Campaign for Universal Medicare Was Successful
in Canada and Failed in the United States
10:45 – 11:15
Mid-morning Break (coffee/tea)
11:15 – 12:55
Session 2 (two concurrent sessions)
Panel B1: Place & Race
Chair: Sarah Carter, Tory Chair and
Professor, Department of History & Classics and Faculty
of Native Studies, University of Alberta
Ebba Olofsson, Culture and Mental Health
Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital/McGill University
Remembrance of Illness and Recovery: The Tuberculosis
Epidemic among the Inuit in the 1950s
Maureen Lux, Brock University
An Ideal Home for the Consumptive: Place, Race and Tuberculosis
in the Canadian West
Robin A. Yates, University of Victoria
First Nations Women Leaders:
Connecting Culture, Community, and the Health of Youth
Susan Smith, University of Alberta
Place, Health, and War: Mustard Gas Experiments
in Transnational Perspective
Panel B2: Rural Regions
Chair: Jill Konkin, Associate Dean of
Rural Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University
of Alberta
Megan Davies, York University
Region and the Transformative Process of Analysis:
Health and Place in History
Sasha Mullally, St. Mary's University
From Smokey Mountain to Moosehead Lake: Region and Travel
in Rural Medicine, 1920s-1950s
Wilfreda Thurston, University of Calgary
BSE and Aboriginal Farm Family Health/Differential Impact
of BSE on Farm Family Health by Province
Stephen Mawdsley, University of Alberta
The Field Trial on Trial, 1954-1955
1:00– 2:00
Lunch (provided)
2:00-3:40
Session 3 (two concurrent sessions)
Panel C1: Dislocations
Chair: Christopher Fletcher, Associate
Professor, Anthropology, University of Alberta
David Scheffel, Thompson Rivers University
When a Slum becomes a Ghetto: The Consequences of Residential
Segregation for the Health of Rural Slovak Roma
Lia Ruttan, et al., University of Alberta
Locating the Street: in North America/ in Edmonton
Elyzabeth Gaumer, University of Chicago
Residential Stability and Health among Urban Renters:
Differentiating the Effects of Poor Housing Quality on Self-rated
Health
Helen Vallianatos, Univeristy of Alberta
Health Across Places: Migration, Construction of Social
Places, and Conceptions of Wellbeing
Panel C2: Big World, Little Places
Chair: Nairne Cameron, Post-doctoral
Fellow, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
Thomas Strickland, McGill University
Between a Mountain and a Glen: Big Hospitals with Little
Problems
Charles Mather and Amanda Vansteelandt, University
of Calgary
Space, Disease, and the Ward of the 21st Century
Kyla Elizabeth Sentes, University of Alberta
Occupational Health in the Developing World: Counter Development
in Action
Robbyn Seller, McGill University (Family
Medicine) and Ellen Rosenberg, McGill University (Family
Medicine)
Out of Place: Interpreters in the Waiting Room
3:45-4:15
Afternoon Break – Coffee/Tea
4:15-6:00
Session 4 (two concurrent sessions)
Panel D1: Region as Experience
Chair: Kristin Burnett, Assistant Professor,
History, Lakehead University
Jennifer Martin, University of Alberta
An Oasis in the Midst of Modernization: Traditional Medicine
in Tunisia
Marko Zivkovic, University of Alberta
Places of Power and Memory
in Post-Milosevic Serbia
Matthew Smith, University of Exeter
A Place for Hyperactivity: Cold War Politics, the "Brain
Race" and the Origins of Hyperactivity in the United
States, 1957-1968
Panel D2: The North as a Region
Chair: Shannon Stunden Bower, Post-doctoral
Fellow, History, University of Alberta
Liza Piper, University of Alberta
Chronic Disease in the Yukon River Basin, 1880-1980
Laura Ishiguro, Simon Fraser University
Roving Physicians
and Three Storeys of Brick: Space, Colonial Medicine and the
Local in Ste. Theresa's Hospital, Chesterfield Inlet, 1931-1949
Carly Dokis, University of Alberta
"There Are No Doctors for the Fish": Industrial
Impacts and Sickness in Sahtu Dene Environmental Assessment
Discourse
5:45-6:45
Keynote: Joseph P. Gone
"Three Places Where I Was Given the Power to Heal and
Cure": Gros Ventre Ethnotherapeutics and the Career of
Bull Lodge
Dinner – on your own
Sunday,
October 28, 2007 – Telus Conference Centre
9:00-9:30
Coffee/Breakfast
9:30-11:00
Session 6 – Workshop Discussion
Presentation by John Pickstone, University
of Manchester
Followed by a moderated session on the conference
themes.
11:00 – 1:00 Lunch and
Discussion of Photo Exhibits - Lobby
Pieter de Vos Poverty in a Land of
Plenty
Douglas Woudstra Selection of photos
from the 2007 Medical Students' Association's International
Health Photo Contest
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