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s must not exceed 350 words. Submit abstracts by mail or e-mail. By mail, send one original and 3 copies, typed single-spaced on one sheet of paper. The Committee will notify applicants of its decision by January 22, 2007. For students invited to present some travel support may be available. Indicate student status on your abstract. N.B. If invited to present at the meeting, the author must undertake to provide a translation of the abstract in French for the bilingual program book. Please visit the CSHM website for more information on the Congress arrangements: http://meds.queensu.ca/medicine/histm/cshmweb/ cshmhome.html>http://meds.queensu.ca/medicine/ histm/cshmweb/cshmhome.html 2008 International Conference on the History of Nursing Plans for CAHN/ACHN’s 2008 International Conference are moving forward. We are planning a two-and-a-half day conference to be held Thursday June 5 through Saturday June 7, 2008. CAHN/ACHN will be the main organizer. The Faculty of Nursing at University of Toronto, Women’s Studies at York University, the Ryerson School of Nursing and the Allemang Centre for the History of Nursing have agreed to co-sponsor the conference. The conference theme will be borders, boundaries and political context in nursing and health care history. There will be four sub-themes: (1) the colonial and political contexts of health care, (2) religious influence focusing on nursing sisterhoods and missionary nursing, (3) the political context of psychiatric practice, and (4) northern nursing and regionality. Translation we be provided only for papers given in languages other than English. Two Hannah lectures are planned with two distinguished international scholars on nursing history. The first is Karen Schultheiss, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, author of Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France 18801922. The second is Catherine Choy, Associate Professor from the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Berkeley; author of the highly acclaimed book, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History. Accommodations will be available at the Delta Chelsea Hotel on Gerrard Street as the Conference Hotel. Student residence rooms at the university will also be available. Included in the conference fee will be a cash bar and welcome buffet reception on opening night, continental breakfasts and buffet lunches on Friday and Saturday and tea and coffee breaks in the mornings and afternoons. On Friday there will be an optional banquet, which registrants must pay for themselves, with cash bar. On Saturday there will be an informal workshop for students during the lunch break. Please check the CAHN/ACHN website for further information. The call for abstracts should be posted in the near future.