Teaching and Learning with Cultural Heritage: The Things of Health and Care

The second annual health humanities symposium. During this one-day event, academics, writers, healthcare professionals, students, museum workers, and more will come together for a series of lightning explorations of the intersection of health, the humanities, and things. What is a thing? This year, that is what the symposium asks as well. Must a thing be an object, or can it be a practice or a belief? And how can things be used to teach, learn, and heal?

This event is a part of Queen’s University’s participation in #SDGMonthCanada, a nation-wide commitment to mobilizing the SDGs across campuses.

Open to all audiences, this event is in-person and free to attend. 

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Schedule

Each panel will be introduced with an artifact or artifacts from the Canadian Museum of Health Care

8:30 am – Welcoming Remarks

• Dr. Allison Morehead, Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Queen’s University
• Rowena McGowan, Curator, Canadian Museum of Health Care

8:50 am - The Interdisciplinarity of Things

• Dr. Jessica Sealey, Department of History, Queen’s University - Bodies on Display: Dissection Photography at Queen’s University
• Claire Stella Park, Graduate Student, Master of Arts in History, University of Ottawa  - Spaces and Places as Objects of Care: Polio Clinics at the Victoria Public Hospital in Fredericton, New Brunswic
• Dr. Allison Morehead, Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Queen’s University - Curating Interdisciplinarity: Lifeblood - Edvard Munch
• Dr. Danielle Macdonald, PhD, RN, School of Nursing, Queen’s University - Bringing nursing philosophy to life through historical objects 

10:10 am – The Protein Question: Science, Hype and Harm

• Dr. Aditi Sen, Department of History, Queen’s University - The history of protein gap from the 1970s and how that failed in developing nations
• Dr. Samantha King, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University - The Thingness of Protein: Mystery and Magnetism from Molecules to Meat
• Ishita Rikhi, Life Sciences, Queen’s University - Protein and eating disorders 

11:20 am – Exploring Medical Artifacts

• Dr. Shelley McKellar, Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Western University - A Tool of Healing? The 19th Century Tonsil Guillotine
• Dr. Jenna Healey, Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Queen’s University - Compact Contraceptives: Teaching Reproductive History with the IUD

12:00 pm – Lunch

1:00 pm – Teaching Beyond the Classroom: Medical Education with Popular Culture

• Dr. Dan Vena, Department of Film and Media, Queen’s University, and Andrew O’Neil, film scholar [with Rowena McGowan] - Embracing the Macabre: Reflections on Curating a Medical Horror Film Series 
• Dorothyanne Brown, Grumpy Cat Press - They did what? Writing about medicine’s history 
• Dr. Adam Blumenberg, Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center - The Time-Travelling Toxicologist 

2:00 pm – Medical Heritage Institutions

• Brendan Edwards and Nicole Kapphahn, Queen’s University Archives - Anatomy of Learning: Bringing Rare and Antiquarian Medical Texts into the Classroom
• Logan Bale, Queen’s Anatomy Lab - Unique Cadaveric Specimens to Represent Organ Systems for Usage in an Anatomy Teaching Centre
• Phil Loring, Curator, Teknisk Museum, Norway - Care and repair: On mending medical artifacts
• Kaitlyn Carter, Department of History, Queen’s University – Sawbones and Sightseers: The History of Medicine as a Tool of Critical Historical Interpretation

4:20 pm – Cultural and Epistemic Justice in Health

• Zamrath A. Naazer, University of Toronto - The Physical Manifestations of Sufi Healing Through Time
• Dr. Thomas Abrams, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University, and Dr. Carlos Novas, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University - Disability and the Politics of Daily Living
• Dr. Oyedeji Ayonrinde, Providence Care; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Queen’s University - "Brain Fag Syndrome": decolonizing and unlearning concepts of mental fatigue

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