Date: April 19 – 20, 2013

Location: Québec City, QC

http://www.ahssm-eig.ca/creatingspaceiii.html

The AHSSM (Art, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Medicine) Educational Interest Group is pleased to announce that a symposium will be held on April 19 – 20, 2013 in conjunction with the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME) in Québec City (April 20 – 23, 2013). This meeting follows the very successful Creating Space I and Creating Space II meetings held in 2011 (Toronto) and in 2012 (Banff), respectively. The first conference was designed to ‘take the pulse’ of the teaching, learning and evaluative strategies as well as the research approaches used by humanities scholars in health professional education and health care settings. It was held in partnership with a parallel conference specifically dedicated to exploring the social science perspectives on health professional education, sponsored by the Wilson Centre. The second symposium, while retaining a broad scope on contributions from colleagues in the arts, humanities and social sciences, focused on reflective practice. It engaged in a dialogue on strategies to promote self-reflection, particularly through diverse narrative-based methods.

The upcoming symposium, while remaining inclusive and attuned to the value of community-building in this field, desires to prompt a critical look at the pedagogic and clinical “spaces” that are imagined or created by the disciplines of the medical humanities, performing and visual arts and the social sciences.
This symposium, which we expect to be interprofessional (i.e. in terms of content, process and contributors), will explore critical and theoretical framings for our work in these areas. It will pose provocative questions such as: Are the pedagogic spaces that we are attempting to create personal and exclusive, or shared and open? Are they expanding, exploding or collapsing spaces? Do they constitute spaces that need protection or justification? Are they squeezed and rendered “instrumentalist” and if so, by whom? Who revels in these spaces, and who objects to them – and why? What hidden metaphors, language and power structures characterize, or serve to locate and define these spaces?
Our anticipated themes this year include: patient, student and clinician written/ performed/ visual narratives; arts-based teaching and learning; the hidden curriculum; simulation settings; the patient experience; and cultures and societies. Additional themes will emanate from the submissions received.
A second aim of the conference is to provide continued opportunities for colleagues to share with each other and with AHSSM, their explorations, successes and struggles with respect to pedagogy, program development and implementation, and scholarly inquiry. Given the relatively new, still evolving field of the medical/ health humanities, the program organizers are committed to creating an environment that is both interdisciplinary and inclusive, while providing an authentic supportive environment for our growing community in Canada.
We look forward to another gathering of a growing community of scholars, educators and practitioners interested in “deepening the conversation.”

On behalf of the symposium organizing committee,

Donald Boudreau, MD
donald.boudreau@mcgill.ca
Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Christopher Fletcher, PhD
christopher.fletcher@fmed.ulaval.ca
Faculté de medicine, Université Laval

Abraham Fuks, MD
abraham.fuks@mcgill.ca

Joanne Loewy, DA, LCAT, MT-BC.
Director of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine and the Department of Music Therapy at Beth Israel Medical Centre, New York; Chair, American Music Therapy Association, 2009-present;  Editor in Chief of the journal of the International Association for Music & Medicine, ‘Music and Medicine’. Her books include: Music, the Breath & Health: Advances in integrative music therapy (2009); Music Therapy at End of Life (2005); Caring for the Caregiver: The Use of Music and Music Therapy in Grief and Trauma (2002); Music Therapy in the NICU (2000) ; and Music Therapy and Pediatric Pain (1997).

Concetta Tomaino DA MT-BC, LCAT
Senior Vice-President for Music Therapy, Executive Director and Co-founder, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, Beth Abraham Health Services, New York

I hope you will reserve this time and make a point to attend.
This is a free event open to the public so you may invite any interested friends to attend but we request that you please RSVP your attendance to:  music.research@utoronto.ca

Opening Reception
Friday, November 23, 2012
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Great Hall, Hart House
Light refreshments, cash bar

With Speakers
David Naylor, PresidentUniversity of Toronto
Janet Carding, Director and CEO, ROM
Michael Bliss, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Conference
Saturday, November 24, 2012
8:30 am – 5 pm
MacLeod Auditorium Medical Sciences Building
Conference is credited for CME & IPE
Conference website available here

Cost
Student: Reception and conference free, but must still register
U of T Alumni: Reception $10, Conference $40, Full Weekend $45
General: Reception $20, Conference $50, Full Weekend $60
RSVP Register online | Contact torontohealthcarehistory@gmail.com

Some Program Highlights

Keynote 1 – The Music Never Stops– Music therapy in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease – Dr. Connie Tomaino, ED of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, NYC and SVP for music therapy at Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, NYC

Keynote 2 – Music Therapy in Whole Person Care at the End of Life – Deborah Salmon, Palliative Music Therapist, McGill University Health Centre

Keynote 3 – My Songs and Experience with Depression – Amy Sky

Workshops:

1.  Sound Health – Lee Bartel

2. Music Care – Bev Foster

3. Creative Ways of Using Music in Long Term Care – Daphne Noonan

4. MHTP Program – Becoming a Therapeutic Musician –  Melinda Gardiner

5. Striking Sounds: Building Musicality and Community through an Experience of Balinese Gamelan – Annette Sanger

6. Music Care Across Cultures:  – Monique McGrath

Performance and Explanation:  Adrian Anatawan and Eric Wan – Virtual Music Instrument

To register for the Music Care Conference at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto on November 10 please click on the link below .

http://www.room217.ca/index.php/music-care-conference-2012-TO

10 Reasons to Attend the Music Care Conference

1. HEAR experts present on music and Dementia, music and Parkinson’s Disease, music at end of life
2. LEARN more about how music impacts our health and well-being
3. EXPERIENCE the therapeutic benefits of music while participating in hands-on workshops
4. THANK a caregiver who has touched your life by sponsoring their registration
5. ENCOUNTER technology as a means of supporting music care
6. DISCOVER how music can be integrated into caring for our aging population
7. BE INSPIRED by Amy Sky, Canadian singer/songwriter as she shares her story and music
8. NETWORK with other music care stakeholders and exhibitors
9. MAXIMIZE your dollar – Early Bird Registration Sept 15. Ask about student/senior/group pricing
10. SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE – MCC participants include professional, volunteer, family caregivers, musicians, music lovers, students

The Arts Health Network is delighted to inform you that Arts Health Network Canada and its first provincial chapter, Arts Health Network Canada-BC, have launched a new and improved website www.artshealthnetwork.ca. Please visit the new site and send your feedback!

The aim of AHNC/AHNC-BC is to connect arts and health practitioners in Canada with each other, researchers, decision-makers, and with members of the public who want to benefit from arts and health programs. This website is intended as one step towards helping facilitate those connections. The website is designed as an all-inclusive hub where arts and health users and the public can go to learn about and contribute to knowledge about the ever-growing field of arts and health in Canada.

On this website you will find a wide range of information on arts and health, including: a beginning list of resources ranging from books, film, and websites to reports, magazines, and academic journal articles; exciting new and ongoing initiatives taking place across Canada; national and international research projects; upcoming and ongoing events, classes, and workshops; and an arts and health news feed.

Your participation is invaluable! To contribute information about arts and health related events, initiatives, and / or resources, please send an email to: admin@artshealthnetwork.ca

STRANGE LANDS: LOCATION AND DISLOCATION:
THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

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September 15, 2012

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Immigration, whether forced or voluntary, temporary or permanent, may disrupt one’s
sense of reality and ego identity. The loss of primal familiarities—the nuances of
language, food, smells, music, ideals—can foster regression and dissociation. Defensive
splitting often shapes the immigrant’s valued and devalued perception of the old and
new cultural landscapes. While painful and disintegrative, dislocation may also enrich the
self and promote a “third individuation”.

This year’s Annual Day in Applied Psychoanalysis welcomes eminent writer and analyst,
Salman Akhtar, to reflect on the psychological complexities of immigration, dislocation
and relocation, and psychiatrist, Timur Oguz, to explore dissociative patterns of
adaptation as identified in his clinical work with immigrants to Canada.

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Location: George Ignatieff Theatre (U of T), 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON

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PROGRAM

8:15    Registration

9:00    Introductions

9:15    Salman Akhtar interviewed by Timur Oguz

10:45  Coffee Break

11:00  Discussion & Audience Participation

12:00  Dramatic excerpt from “Bejide”

12:15   Lunch provided

1:15    Timur Oguz interviewed by Keith Haartman

2:15     Panel discussion

3:30    Closing Remarks

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To register, call Liz Konigshaus at (416) 586-4800 ext. 8436.

Early Registration: $150
Residents/PsyA Canditates: $75
Full Time Students: $50
After September 1st: $165

9, 10, 11 August, 2012
Montclair State University

The Colleges of the Arts, of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and of Education and Human Services at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA, are hosting the Second International Health Humanities Conference. Montclair State University is located in Northern New Jersey, 14 miles from New York City.
 
In accordance with the interdisciplinary nature of the Health Humanities, we invite the participation of colleagues from music, other arts disciplines, the humanities, and clinical health backgrounds who wish to join in an exploration concerning the various relationships among music, health, and humanity. We encourage individual and group (colloquium) presentations addressing theory, practice, and/or research (in progress or completed), concerning questions and issues pertinent to the conference theme.
 
Final CFP Deadline = 15 June.
 
Extension until 31 May for early registration
 
Our keynote participants include Joel Thome, Grammy Award Winning and Pulitzer-Prize Nominated Modern Composer; Chris Pepino, film maker of the award-winning documentary Inside the Perfect Circle: The Odyssey of Joel Thome; and Benedikte Scheiby, Music Therapist from the Institute of Music and Neurologic Function, a member of CenterLight Health System, Beth Abraham Family of Health Services. Keynote participants will also include Dr. Paul Crawford, Professor of Health Humanities, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, and Dr. Brian Brown, Reader in Health Communication, De Montfort University. Information on additional guests and speakers will be announced shortly.
 
The conference opening will feature special guest Kate Pierson of the “world’s greatest party band” – the B-52s. The B-52′s have been advocates for many causes in their 35 years of touring including human rights, animal rights and the right to dance and party!
 
http://www.montclair.edu/health-humanities-conference/index.php

Saturday, May 5 – 11:00 AM

Dr. FitzGerald and the Connaught Laboratories: Medical Legacy Meets Family History

Dr. Gerry FitzGerald was the founder of the Connaught Laboratories and University of Toronto School of Hygiene, institutions responsible for the saving of many lives. What so darkened Dr. FitzGerald’s reputation that his memory was all but erased from our national consciousness? Join Gerry’s grandson to hear about his personal quest to discover the history of these medical institutions and unravel his family mystery.

LEADER:  James FitzGerald, author of the memoir, What Disturbs Our Blood
START POINT: Convocation Hall, 31 King’s College Circle, University of Toronto
FINISH POINT: 155 College Street, between McCaul St and University Ave
LENGTH:  Approx. 1 ½ to 2 hours
FOCUS:  Historical
DIFFICULTY: Long walk on sidewalks

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Mary Beattie, Ed.D.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Mary Beattie is Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education who has been working in research, pedagogy, and curriculum for over 20 years.  She has a particular interest in humanistic and holistic approach to learning and teaching at all levels.  She currently teaches a graduate course at OISE entitled “Narrative and Story in Research and Professional Practice”.

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Simon Coleman, PhD
Department and Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Simon Coleman has an interest in ethnographies of hospitals and in particular hospital chaplaincy, and has also worked on the assessment of the deployment of artworks in a hospital in the north of England.

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John Court
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
John P.M. Court is an historian of medicine and psychiatry in the University of Toronto and has been the Archivist for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) since 2000.  He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, and an Associated Scholar in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts. 
http://www.utpsychiatry.ca/members/johnpm-court/

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Dennis Duffy, PhD
Department of English, University of Toronto

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Marlene Goldman, PhD
Department of English, University of Toronto
Marlene Goldman is currently the Principal Investigator of a JHI-funded working group on Old Age, Aging, Memory and Aesthetics.  As well, she is researching and writing a book on the intersection between literary, media, and biomedicine discourses pertaining to age-related dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, which is also the subject of her current graduate course.

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Claire Harrigan
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto
Claire Harrigan’s academic interests lie in Mexican literary and cultural studies – currently Mexico’s history of eugenics and hygiene as medical and aesthetic categories.

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Elizabeth Harvey, PhD
Department of English, University of Toronto
Elizabeth Harvey’s research over the past 30 years has focused on the history of medicine (classical and Renaissance), phenomenology of embodiment, and theory of emotion and consciousness.  She was a core faculty member, instructor, and mentor in the trans-disciplinary program at U of T, Health Care, Technology, and Place (HCTP), for 10 years.  In addition to her academic research, she is currently training as a yoga therapist, an intensive program that seeks to integrate yoga, meditation, and eastern healing modalities into therapeutic practice.  She is also in the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis “Essentials” Program, and plans to continue with psychoanalytic training.

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Sean Hillman, PhD (cand.)
Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Sean Hillman is working on a third degree from U of T with the start of a collaborative PhD in South Asian Religions and Bioethics. He earned a B.A. in East Asian Studies and his Masters research looked at the interaction between voluntary death practices in the Indian religious traditions and secular end-of-life care. Sean has been a bedside caregiver for over a decade and was a Buddhist monk for 13 years, ordained twice by H.H. the Dalai Lama in India. While in India he also studied Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan language at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, and the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics. His doctoral research will be an ethnographic exploration into the influence of religious texts on healthcare decision-making among Buddhists, Hindus and Jains in India.

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Rebecca Janzen, PhD (cand.)
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto
Rebecca Janzen’s research focuses on Mexican literature from the 1940s to 1980s.  In particular, using theories of narratology, it examines narrative strategies in this literature, and the connection between narrative techniques and Mexico’s political, religious and social context.  She also examines representations of bodies, and suggestions of intercorporeal or collective resistance, in this literature.

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Dr. Pamela Klassen
Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Dr. Klassen’s studies the development of Protestantism from conversion through science and scripture to becoming critics of missionary arrogance which experimented with non-western healing modes.

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Kevin Komisaruk, D.Mus.
Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
Kevin Komisaruk is an historical keyboard musician and Lecturer at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. An advocate for advanced, performance-based musical literacy in palliative care, he maintains a private practice providing acoustic clavichord music at bedside and has innovated graduate and undergraduate hospice-palliative care curriculum at the Faculty of Music, where he has taught since 2003. Komisaruk has performed throughout North America and Europe as a concert organist, has broadcast with CBC, NPR and Radio France, and produced two discs with ATMA Records. He studied solo performance at McGill University and the Westminster Conservatory in Princeton.

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Catherine Lemieux
Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Catherine Lemieux is a third year Ph.D. student specializing in the anthropology of religion. Her doctoral research is an ethnographic study of individuals who use hypnosis for healing and spiritual purposes through workshops in Toronto. She is particularly interested in instances when hypnosis is used to induce past life regressions and exorcisms, and her research engages both with theories on secular religiosity and theories on trauma and memory in anthropology and ethnopsychiatry.

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John W. Marshall
Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Prof. John Marshall’s teaching and research includes early Christian and Greco-Roman traditions of healing, magic, and cursing.  These traditions exemplify ancient strategies that integrate empirical and folk/cultural regimes of knowledge in addressing the contingencies of embodiment in the ancient world.  They also exemplify the social positioning of diverse health practices in ancient society.

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Ken McLeod, PhD
Music, History and Culture, University of Toronto

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Nancy McNaughton, MEd, PhD
Standardized Patient Program, University of Toronto
Nancy McNaughton is an Associate Director of the Standardized Patient Program at University of Toronto, and a former professional actor and dancer.  Nancy has been delivering courses on qualitative research theory and methods as well as simulation research with other faculty from the Wilson Centre for Research in Education for the past five years.  She is a qualitative researcher and educator who consults and collaborates on research internationally.   Her research program focuses on affect, emotion and acting at the intersection of human simulation and health care practice.

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Kenneth Mills, D. Phil. Oxford
Department of History, University of Toronto
For more information: kennethmills.ca

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Libbie Mills, PhD
Department of Humanities, University of Toronto
Libbie Mills is a South Asianist, teaching for the Global Asia Studies Program and Asian Institute at the University of Toronto – Scarborough and St. George campuses.  Her research is based in materials in Sanskrit, in two fields: building theory and ayurvedic medicine.

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Michelle Murphy, PhD
Department of History, University of Toronto
Department of Women and Gender Studies
Michelle Murphy is a cross-appointed Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Women and Gender Studies.  She is a historian and interdisciplinary feminist science studies scholar who works on questions of reproductive health, environmental health, and biopolitics.

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Ato Quayson, PhD
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies (Jackman Humanities Institute), University of Toronto
Ato Quayson’s book Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation was published in 2007 as well as an essay on Autism in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy in 2010.  He has a continued interest in disability studies.

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Justin Stein
Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Justin Stein is a second-year doctoral student studying North American and Japanese spirituality at the University of Toronto’s Department for the Study of Religion and is completing the collaborative program with the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies. His dissertation research will be on the transnational development and circulation of the healing practices called Reiki. His broader research interests include efforts to synthesize science and religion, new religious movements, religion and the secular, spiritual healing, spirit communication, and transnational religious networks. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Hamilton College and his M.A. in Religion (Asian) from the University of Hawaii.

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Sarah Tracy,  PhD (cand.)
Department of History, University of Toronto
Her project considers monosodium glutamate (MSG) as a transnational biotechnology phenomenon, a global food additive—and alleged toxin.  Broadly construed, Sarah’s work examines the boundaries of food, drug, toxin, and lively matter through a case study of MSG’s role in food development, consumption, and regulation at the iconic Campbell’s Soup Company.

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Francine Wynn, PhD
Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
Francine Wynn is a nurse with a background in cultural anthropology (BA, MA) and a PhD in Social and Political Thought.  Her interests are philosophical.  Her philosophy is based in interpretive phenomenology (Heidegger, Agamben, Nancy, Merleau-Ponty) and psychoanalysis.  She has been integrating cinema, poetry, painting and sculpture, and literature in her lectures and creative arts based projects in her clinical seminars for 20 years.  Her clinical background is psychiatric nursing and she is chair of the undergrad program in the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing.

The Thirteenth Annual Taos Writing Retreat for Health Professionals, sponsored by the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Office of Continuing Medical Education and the Permanente Journal, Kaiser Permanente, will take place August 5-11, 2012 at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico.

 
The retreat encourages individuals to pursue their writing in a communal environment that provides maximum space for personal exploration and growth. A group workshop session takes place each morning. Afternoons are free for scheduled individual writing consultations with faculty members and for solitary writing, reflection, and communion with the beauty of Taos.

 
Evenings offer informal gatherings that include viewing films and a talk by a guest writer.
Faculty for 2012 are Daniel Becker, MD, writer, internist, and director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Jeanne Bereiter, MD, writer, psychiatrist, and director of the narrative medicine/reflective writing program at the University of New Mexico.

For further information: Please call Lois Montoya at (505)272-3942, email lemontoya@Salud.unm.edu
or visit our web page at www.taoswritingretreat.com.

Seventeen hours of CME credits available.