The goal of the Health Research Seminar Series is to provide space for students and faculty to engage in discussions about current health research from across all programs and campuses within and outside of UNBC. The Series runs once a month during the Fall and Winter semesters. To ensure everyone can access the presentations, each session will be broadcast via Zoom and recorded for viewing on this site. The HRI would like to recognize Sun Life Financial for their contribution to the seminar series.
The 2024/2025 Seminar Series Schedule
Presentation Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
"Fireside Chat" With Presenter: 1:30pm - 2:00pm
Zoom Link
January 9th
Location: 7-238 Weldwood Lecture Theatre
Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Presenters: Elder Joan Morris (seɫɫəmah), Cyril Morris, Shelly Johnson
The title of the cultural truth telling being shared is x̌əx̌ə həuistəŋ (sacred honor)
In this presentation:
- seɫɫəmah will speak about her lived experiences at Nanaimo Indian Hospital intersecting Kuper Island Residential School. Because of the assaults she faced as a student at KIRS she was often hospitalized as she suffered from the beatings of Sister Superior (children were sent from Kuper Island Residential school to Nanaimo Indian Hospital for many reasons, even if the children had no ailments or sickness).
- seɫɫəmah's resilience through self-forgiveness and forgiveness
- Cyril will speak about his grandfather's talʔnəxʷ (Understanding) and his one-day experience out of the years at Nanaimo Indian Hospital.
A ‘star’ speaks about her hospital experience | Salish Sea Sentinel
February 27th
Presenter: Hearts-based Education and Anti-Colonial Learning Project Team (H.E.A.L)
- Dr. Sarah de Leeuw & X’staam Hana’ax (Nicole Halbauer)
Title: All Our Relationships: Roles of Friendships and Geography in Developing Critical Anti-Colonial Health Humanities Teaching Tools and Places, including HARC and HEAL
Description: Partly using a storytelling and visual methodology, and extending this sentiment into “all our relationships,” we argue in this presentation that friendships and deep relationship to place (geography) need to be understood as fundamental to building and advancing a critical, politicized, anti-colonial, anti-oppressive health humanities in Canada and beyond. The paper explores the decade long development and expansion of the Health Arts Research Centre (HARC) in northern British Columbia, including its recent launch of an open-access website (HEALHealthcare) devoted entirely to arts-based anti-oppression healthcare learning tools that any clinician, activist, professional, or lay-person might be able to use in efforts to combat oppressive internal biases affecting their practice or worldview.
March 20th
April 3rd | Honors Student Presentation
Please visit this page for updates to the schedule and topics. Zoom recordings of the presentations will be added to the below link following each presentation.