Each year CAHN/ACHN invites a recognised scholar of nursing history to present a keynote lecture on his/her expertise. This lecture is named in honour of Dr. Jason Hannah, the founder of Canada’s first physician-sponsored not-for-profit healthcare organisation, Associated Medical Services (AMS). AMS has generously provided financial support for this lecture series since 2004.
Past Speakers:
2024: Dominique Tobbell, Centennial Distinguished Professor and Director, Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry University of Virginia School of Nursing
“Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing”
2023: Panel Presentation:
Ismalia De Sousa, PhD candidate, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia | Candidate au doctorat, École du nursing, Université de la Colombie‐Britannique
Kyra Philbert, MSN Student, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia | Étudiante à la maîtrise en sciences infirmières, École du nursing, Université de la Colombie‐ Britannique
Lydia Wytenbroek, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia | Professeure adjointe, École du nursing, Université de la Colombie‐Britannique
Geertje Boschma, Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia | Professeure, École du nursing, Université de la Colombie‐Britannique
“What Got us Here Won’t Get us There: Reckoning and Re-Imagining Black Canadian Nursing Histories | Ce qui nous a amenés ici ne nous amènera pas là : bilan et réévaluation de l’histoire des soins infirmiers chez les Noirs canadiens”
2022: Barbara Mann Wall, Thomas A. Saunders III Professor Emerita in Nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. She also is Director Emerita of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.
“Race, Religion, and Nursing: Using Voyant Tools to Investigate Nurses in Missions Fields”
2021: Nicole Barnes, Assistant professor, Duke University, Departments of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
“One Canadian Doctor and Many Chinese Nurses: Missives from a Canadian Hospital in Wartime China”
2018: Janet Greenlees, Senior Lecturer Social Sciences, Media & Journalism (history); Senior Director Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare, Glasgow, Caledonian University
“To develop the “habit” : Nurses and prenatal care for poor women in the United States and Great Britain, c. 1880-1939″
Audio file available here!
2017: Karen Flynn, University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign
“‘Hotel Refuses Negro Nurse’: Gloria Clarke Bayis and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel”
2016: Linda Bryder, University of Auckland
“Multiple Pathways to Nursing Scholarship”
2015: Christine Hallett, Manchester University
“Le Petit Paradis Des Blessés: Nurses, Nursing and Internationalism on the Western Front (1915-1918)”
2014: Juanita De Barros, McMaster University
“Maternal and Infant Health Policy in the British Caribbean”
2013: Barbara Mann Wall, University of Pennsylvania
“Disasters, Nursing, and Community Responses: A Historical Perspective”
2012: Carol Helmstadter, University of Toronto
“Military Nursing in Four Different Contexts: The Crimean War, 1853-56”
2011: Pat D’Antionio, University of Pennsylvania
“Exploring People and Places in the History of Nursing”
2010: Sioban Nelson, University of Toronto
“The Nightingale Imperative: Icons, Imaginations and Nursing Identity”
2009: Judith Walzer Leavitt, University of Wisconsin, Maddison
“Make Room for Daddy: Men and Childbirth in Mid-Twentieth Century United States”
2008: Catherine Choy, University of California, Berkeley
“Nurses on the Move: Migration in Nursing and Health Care History”
and Katrin Schultheiss, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Religion, Citizenship, and the Transformation of the Nursing Profession in France”
2007: Maureen Lux, Brock University
“Segregated and Isolated: Institutional Health Care for Aboriginal People in Post-World War II”
2006: Dianne Dodd, Historian National Historic Sites Directorate
“Nurses and the Creation of Historic Memory”
and Glennis Zilm, University of British Columbia
“‘Florence’s Web’: Links that help discover, preserve, and disseminate nursing history”
2005: Margarete Sandelowisky, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“What Things Contribute to the History of Nursing”
2004: Daniel Hickey, University of Moncton
“Care and Prayer: Women’s Religious Orders and Hospital Service in France 1658-1880/Soigner et prier: les religieuses hospitalières et leur oeuvre en France 1658-1880”