This year the School of Nursing is launching the Consortium for Historical Inquiry in Nursing and Health Care. The Consortium serves as a resource for students interested in the history of nursing and historical methodologies and acts as a liaison between the School and the wider history-minded community. You can find out more about the Consortium on their blog at: https://blogs.ubc.ca/
The Consortium’s first event will be a symposium on November 21, 2013 and features presentations from Dr. Geertje Boschma, Faculty Lead of the Consortium; Dr. Sonya Grympa, Professor and Dean of Trinity Western University School of Nursing; and Dr. Lauring Meijer Drees, Co-Chair of the First Nations Studies Department at Vancouver Island University. Their topics range from the need for Historical Nursing Knowledge, to Japanese internment in China, to Stories from Canada’s Indian Hospitals.
The Consortium additionally invites students to submit abstracts for a poster competition. Three winners will be selected to have their posters printed by the Consortium for presentation at the symposium on November 21. Posters should focus on ongoing or completed research on nursing or health history. Submissions are due November 1, 2013. Learn more about the Symposium and poster guidelines at: http://www.nursing.ubc.ca/
Finally, the Consortium is also hosting a student reading group. We will meet monthly (beginning October 17) to read and discuss current nursing history literature and historical inquiry in general. In preparation for the November 21Symposium, the October and November reading sessions will focus on Dr. Grympa’s book: China Interrupted – Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community and Dr. Meijer Drees’ book: Healing Histories: Stories from Canada’s Indian Hospitals.
To join the Reading Group or simply to be on the contact list for further announcements from the Consortium, please email them at: nursinghistory@ubc.ca
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