<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><b class="">Language and Health: Ethical and Policy Issues<br class=""></b><br class="">HCALM 2016 International Conference<br class=""><br class="">June 17-18<br class=""><br class="">Centre Mont-Royal - Cartier I<br class=""><br class="">2200 Mansfield, Montreal, QC<br class=""><br class=""> <br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><u class="">Friday June 17</u></b> <br class=""><br class="">9.00 – 9.15 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Registration</b><br class=""><br class="">9.15 – 9.30 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Welcome and opening remarks</b> (Daniel Weinstock, IHSP and Law, McGill)<br class=""><br class="">9.30 – 11.00 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Session I: Healthcare Provision in Multilingual Contexts – Canada</b><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">- </b>Ethical Considerations in Cross-Linguistic Clinical Care: Challenges to address Social Inequalities of Health (Bilkis Vissandjée, Faculté des sciences infirmières, Université de Montréal)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">- Digesting Data: A Multimodal, Genre-Based Analysis of Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide (Christen Rachul, Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, Carleton) </div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">11.00 – 11.30 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Break</b><br class=""><br class="">11.30 – 13.00 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Session II: Epistemic Issues in Language and Healthcare Ethics</b></div></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">- Is consent based on trust morally inferior to consent based on information? (Nana Cecilie Halmsted Kongsholm, Philosophy, University of Copenhagen)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">- “The patient is overwhelmed”: Emotion, reason, and partial disclosure (Colin Halverson, Anthropology, University of Chicago)</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">13.00 – 14.00 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Lunch</b><br class=""><br class="">14.00 – 16.15 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Session III: Healthcare Provision and the Deaf Community<br class=""></b><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">- Les besoins de la communication ne sont pas universels : comment pouvons-nous faciliter l’accès pour les personnes sourdes dans le domaine de la santé? (Darren Saunders, Michel Turgeon et Éric Dubé, Coalition des Sourds du Québec)</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">- Developing a Parent Sign Language Curriculum: Ethical and Policy Issues in Early Intervention for Deaf Children (Kristin Snoddon, Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton)</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">- Accessing Bilingual Cancer Genetics Materials: Ensuring Health Equity for the Deaf Community (Patrick Boudreault, ASL & Deaf Studies, Gallaudet; Christina Palmer, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA)</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">16.15 – 16.30 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Break</b><br class=""><br class="">16.30 – 17.00 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Discussion</b><br class=""><br class=""> <br class=""><b class=""><u class="">Saturday June 18<br class=""></u></b><br class="">9.00 – 10.30 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Session IV: Multiple Disadvantage in Language and Health<br class=""></b><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">- Exploring language and literacy barriers for newcomer Canadians through the lens of Intersectionality: Implications for Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s Gender Based Policy Analysis (Nancy Clark, Vancouver Community College; Bilkis Vissandjée, Faculté des sciences infirmières, Université de Montréal)</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">- Correlations between health and ancestral Indigenous language use (Alice Taff, Alaska Native Languages, University of Alaska Southeast)</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">10.30 – 11.00 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Break</b><br class=""><br class="">11.00 – 13.15 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Session V: Healthcare Provision in Multilingual Contexts - Quebec<br class=""></b><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">- “One size does not fit all”: Health policy implications of the geographic distribution of the English Official Language Minority Community in the province of Quebec (Jan Warnke, Geography, Laval)</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">- Supplementary Health Insurance among Anglophone Minorities in Québec (James Falconer, Sociology, McGill)</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">- A Comparison of Characteristics of English and French Speaking Seniors in Quebec that Likely Influence Their Health (Duncan Sanderson, Bishop’s University; Jan Warnke, Geography, Laval; Cheryl Gosselin, Sociology, Bishop’s University)</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">13.15 – 14.15 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Lunch</b><br class=""><br class="">14.15 – 16.30 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Session VI: Mental Health and Language</b><br class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">- « Je veux être soigné dans ma langue » : Des soins de santé mentale en français en Ontario (Marcel Martel, History, York University)</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">- Discursive Communication in Emergency Psychiatry: the experience of newly arrived immigrants and their treating team (Alessandra Miklavcic, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital; Eric Jarvis, Psychiatry, McGill University and Cultural Consultation Service, Jewish General Hospital).</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">16.30 – 16.45 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Break</b><br class=""><br class="">16.45 – 17.15 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">Discussion and closing remarks</b><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is essential. To register and for further details please contact Melissa Bahamonde at <a href="mailto:melissa.bahamonde@mail.mcgill.ca" class="">melissa.bahamonde@mail.mcgill.ca</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The conference is funded by Health Canada and administered by the McGill <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/hssaccess/trhpp/research" class="">Training and Retention of Health Professionals Project</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
--------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Dr. Yael Peled<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class=""><br class="">Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Language and Health<br class="">The Health Care Access for Linguistic Minorities (<a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/hssaccess/trhpp/research" class="">HCALM</a>) Network<br class=""><br class="">Institute for Health and Social Policy<br class="">McGill University<br class="">Charles Meredith House <br class="">1130 Pine Avenue West<br class="">Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A3<br class="">Tel.: 514-398-1236 <br class=""><br class="">Faculty of Law<br class="">McGill University<br class="">Chancellor Day Hall<br class="">3644 Peel Street<br class="">Montreal, Quebec <br class="">Canada H3A 1W9<br class="">Tel.: 514-398-6666 <br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="">Website:<a href="http://www.peledy.com" class=""> www.peledy.com</a>
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