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Creating Space VII: Dreaming the Myth Onward: The Stories We Don't Always Tell (A CCME pre‑conference)

Posted by GHO Admin on October 5, 2016 in Events

Call for Papers: Deadline Dec. 31, 2016
Conference Dates: April 28 & 29, 2017
Location: Winnipeg, MB


Creating Space (CS) is an annual meeting exploring the evolving use of arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) in healthcare education. Over the last six years, CS has become an annual summit where scholars, artists and practitioners gather to discuss how to cultivate the best and most humanistic characteristics of health care professionals.   A recent trend in medical education is the strong emphasis on Professionalism.  This has occasionally been misinterpreted as a call to leave one’s personhood and subjective experience at the door.   This meeting will focus on how the AHSS methods and inquiry can be used to achieve greater personal self-awareness and reflexivity on the part of the practitioner, with a view to the development of greater insight into and access to one’s personhood  and humanity in both the clinical and intraprofessional encounter.

Types of proposals

Recognizing the emerging role of AHSS approaches and interdisciplinary scholarship,Creating Space VII offers authors the opportunity to display creatively their research and educational achievements, experiences and thoughts.

Proposals may be submitted by authors in the form of :

  • Short Presentation (20 minutes)
  • Limited group workshop (60 minutes)
  • Panel Discussion (60 minutes)
  • Performance Session (30 minutes)
  • Poster(s)

Proposal Template:

  • Title
  • Author(s), affiliation (One affiliation per author, Expected presenter’s name must be in bold.)
  • Body of text of the proposal (Maximum 250 words)
  • Key words (3)
  • Citations (Max=3, Not Mandatory)
  • Type of proposals (e.g. short presentation, workshop, poster, etc.)

Proposals must be:

  • Submitted in .doc or .docx format
  • Font:  Times New Roman 12

Proposals may be submitted in French or in English.

Acronyms should be explained at their first notice.

Deadline for submission :

Proposals are due no later than midnight EDT, December 31st, 2016.

To Submit a Proposal :

All proposals must be submitted to the following address: Cindy.Liao@umanitoba.ca

*Acceptance of proposals will be confirmed in late January 2017.