On March 12, 2026, you are invited to the University Club for a symposium on Teaching and Learning with Cultural Heritage: The Things of Health and Care, the second year of an annual health humanities symposium in Kingston. During this one-day event, academics, writers, healthcare professionals, students, museum workers, and more will come together for a series of lightning explorations of the intersection of health, the humanities, and things. What is a thing? This year, that is what the symposium asks as well. Must a thing be an object, or can it be a practice or a belief? And how can things be used to teach, learn, and heal?

Attendance is free, and participants are welcome to drop in and out all day. Refreshments will be served.

This symposium is a collaboration between the Canadian Museum of Health Care and Queen's University, including The Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, the Faculty of Health Sciences, the School of Nursing, the Department of Art History and Art Conservation, and the Department of History. Thank you to the Hannah Chair in Medicine for sponsoring this year’s symposium.

Please RSVP here.

Where: George Teves Room, University Club

When: March 12, 2026, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Closing Reception: Canadian Museum of Health Care, 5:00 - 6:30 pm

*Schedule subject to change

Each panel will be introduced with an artifact or artifacts from the Canadian Museum of Health Care