Health Sciences: Lectures, Debates, Forums

Glenn Close spoke on campus to members of the Queen’s community about her work with BringChange2Mind, the organization she co-founded to address the stigma and discrimination faced by people living with mental illness.

Symposium presented by: The Equity and Women's Concerns Committee of the Department of Philosophy, Queen's University. Featuring: Dr. Heather Stuart (Bell Mental Health and Anti-Stigma Research Chair), Dr. Jacalyn Duffin (Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine), and Dr. Mike Condra (Director, Health, Counselling and Disability Services).

The perception of the world around us is mediated by a complex neuronal machinery. Sensory structures such as eyes and ears capture physical energies and transform them into neural signals. Neural pathways then transport them from these structures to the central nervous system. Finally, central processing mechanisms integrate these signals into a vivid experience of the “reality” that guides our behaviour. By nature, the information that reaches the central nervous system is noisy, incomplete and generally ambiguous. I will introduce you to the sophisticated strategies by which the brain resolves these ambiguities to eventually come up with something that feels like a solid, reliable, and predictable reality which seems to exist independently of ourselves and our brains. Dr. Nikolaus Troje joined Queen's University as a Canada Research Chair in Vision and Behavioural Sciences. He is now a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology, the Department of Biology, and the School of Computing at Queen’s and an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Vision Research at York University. At Queen’s he is the director of the BioMotionLab.

This presentation brings together Samantha King's research on the links between the breast cancer industry and the environment and Breast Cancer Action Montreal's work on safe cosmetics, labelling and the right to know the ingredients of the products we consume.

Sister Elizabeth M. Davis, Chair, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation will speak on: “New Journey, New Vision, New Promise: Interdisciplinary Health Care in a New Time.” Wednesday, November 26 at 5:30 pm Biosciences Lecture Theatre 1101 Queen’s University. Sponsored by the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; the Faculty of Health Sciences; and the School of Policy Studies.

Recorded on May 24 2008 by CFRC, 101.9 FM. Tom Courchene and Carolyn Bennett debate the future of health care in Canada, moderated by Hugh Winsor, with an introduction from Sean Conway and concluding remarks from Sarah Renaud.

Recorded on November 26, 2007 by CFRC, 101.9 FM. Dr. Flood delivers the 2007 Sinclair lecture, entitled "Courts vs Medicare". The Question & Answer session is introduced by Mary Ann McColl.

Recorded on June 16th, 2007 by CFRC 101.9 FM. Dr. Jones deliveres her lecture entitled "Averting White Male (Ab)normality: Psychiatric Representations and Treatment of Homosexuality in 1960s South Africa" during the "New World Coming Conference".

Recorded on September 28th, 2006 by CFRC 101.9FM. Professor Amina Mire's lecture was titled "Academic Capitalism and Skin-Whitening Biotechnology".

Recorded on November 16th, 2006 by CFRC 101.9 FM. Dr. Samantha King delivered a lecture entitled "Breast Cancer and Health Politics".

Recorded Alumni Weekend 2006