CAHN 2026 Conference
May 29 – 31, 2026
Location: Schulich Hotel and Conference Centre at York University
[The entire conference will take place at the Schulich Hotel and Conference Centre]
Address: 56 Fine Arts Rd, North York, ON M3J 1P3
Friday May 29 | Vendredi 29 Mai
18:00-21:30 Opening Panel and Reception – Schulich Private Dining Room
Welcome + Registration (18:00-18:30)
Hannah Panel | Conference Hannah (18:30-19:30)
History, Nursing and Indigenous Health
Chair, Dr. Ruth Green, Director of Social Work, York University
Crystal Point, MSN, RN, University of British Columbia
Christine Fiddler, M.Ed, BA, University of Saskatchewan
Reception: Schulich Private Dining Room (19:30-21:30)
Saturday May 30 | Samedi 30 Mai
8:30 – 9:00 Registration | inscription
9:00 – 10:00 Session 1A: Finding the Nursing Story
Chair: Michelle Danda
Location: Private Dining Room
“The White Cap Catalogue”
Ruth Thompson
“Stories from the Edges: A Personal Narrative Project to Honour Everyday Nursing History”
Kim English
“Eliciting a Narrative: The Contribution of a Peer Professional”
Lynn Hamilton
09:00 – 10:00 Session 1B: Representations in Nursing History
Chair: Sandra Harrisson
Location: Lecture Theatre
“Scénariser le soin : comment fictionnaliser le vécu des soignant.e.s et des patient.e.s pour déconstruire les discours dominants en santé mentale?”
Emily Landry-Lajoie
“Fictionalizing Nursing History: The Sisters of Service and the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1918 Toronto”
Lucia Gagliese
“Narratives as Resistance and Recognition in Nursing Practice”
Jennifer Dunn
10:00-10:15 Break | pause
10:15-11:15 Session 2A: War & Nursing
Chair: Emily Kaliel
Location: Lecture Theatre
“The Price of Commitment: Nurses in the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)”
Sioban Nelson, Cinta Sadurni-Bassols, Gloria Gallego Caminero
“An Accounting of War: A Canadian Military Nurse’s First World War Expense Record”
Suzanna Wagner
“Nursing Sister Clare Gass’s Visual War: Picturing the First World War”
Andrea McKenzie
10:15-11:15 Session 2B: Nursing Specialization
Chair: Lydia Wytenbroek
Location: Private Dining Room
“De convoité à évité : l’évolution des CHSLD québécois et du concept de milieu de vie”
Fannie Dupont
“Surgical Team Culture, Gendered Power, and the Historical Violence of the OR” Jennifer Dunn
“A New Beat: Cardiac Care Nursing at Vancouver General Hospital, 1955-1959”
Sarina Heidari
11:15-11:30 Break | pause
11:30-12:30 Session 3: Untold Histories and Reconsidered Perspectives
Chair: Sioban Nelson
“Whispers of Care in the Shadow of a Pandemic: Exploring the Untold Journeys of Gay Male Nurses during Canada’s HIV/AIDS Crisis (1981–1998)”
Sandra Harrisson
“Unravelling the Sanitized Timeline: Re-weaving Indigenous Narratives to Unlearn the History of Nursing”
Lesa Fox
“What’s Lamont Got to Do With It?: An Early Site of Negotiated Racial Inclusion in Canadian Hospital-Based Nursing Education (1925-1955)”
Emily Kaliel, Helen Vandenberg, Letitia Johnson
12:30-13:45 Lunch | déjeuner (lunch provided)
13:45-14:45 Session 4A: Rethinking Nursing Politics
Chair: Kyra Philbert
Location: Lecture Theatre
“Nurse Activism in Canada: Historical Perspectives and Leadership Imaginations for the Future”
Michelle Danda and Sheryl Zentner
“Boundaries of Care: Maternalism, Visitation, and Professional Politics in Cold War German Pediatric Nursing”
Christoph Schwamm
“Imagining Youth Mental Health Nursing Across a Century: Historical Contexts and Philosophical Shifts in British Columbia, 1900–Present”
Michelle Danda
13:45-14:45 Session 4B: Reconsidering Nursing Care
Chair: Jennifer Dunn
Location: Private Dining Room
“Feeding and Weighing: The History of Devices and 'Visual History' of Infant Nutrition in Paediatric Nursing at the Beginning of the 20th Century”
Karen Nolte
“What Does Cultural Safety Mean now?”
Yamu Ɂakiⱡ nuhu, Kwik-ga, Sara Daigle-Stevens
“The Seal of Saint Elizabeth: Care of the sick poor and female spirituality in Northern Europe in the high Middle Ages”
Sioban Nelson
14:45-15:00 Break | pause
15:00-16:00 Session 5: Nursing, Health and Colonialism
Chair: Letitia Johnson
“Public Health Nursing in the Yukon”
Alistair White
“Inventing Arctic Hysteria”
Jessica Casey
“Migrant Histories, Colonial Legacies: Filipino Nurses, Canadian Health Care, and Imagining Anti-Racist Futures”
Michelle Danda and Sheryl Zentner
18:00 Dinner | diner (organized, TBA)
Sunday May 31 | dimanche 31 mai
8:00 Breakfast | Rafraichissements
9:00-10:15 Session 6: Nursing, Gender, Empire
Chair: Fannie Dupont
“Professional Image of Rockefeller Foundation Fellows from Brazil in Toronto: a transnational history (1939-1945)”
Camila de Freitas Lima, Luciana Barizon Luchesi
“From Fellowship to Leadership: Iranian Nurses on the Move”
Mohadeseh Saki
“Empires, Epidemics, War and Empathy: The Untold Story of Nurses in Ottoman Palestine”
Ronen Segev
“Rethinking Military Nurses: The Example of Canadian Nurses Serving in Foreign Forces”
Kate Mcpherson
10:15-10:30 Break | pause
10:30-11:45 Session 7: Teaching Humanities in Nursing
Chair: Kyra Philbert
“Humanities Elective in Nursing”
Geraldine Gorman, Shirley Stephenson, Patricia Walsh
“ Teaching Plans for Nursing History in São Paulo, Brazil (2021): A Documentary Analysis of Institutional Practices in Undergraduate Nursing Education”
Luciana Barizon Luchesi and Carla Cristina da Cruz Almeida Lima
“Documenting Nursing and Healthcare History Through Mapping”
Sally Ellis Fletcher
“Nurses and Pageantry: Performing the Past, Performing Profession”
Lydia Wytenbroek & Kyra Philbert
11:45 Closing Remarks | remarques finales
Student Award | prix étudiants
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