Session Chair Duties at Scholarly Conferences

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Session Chair. Patients, Consumers, Scientists and Citizens: Ethnography in Biomedical, Health and Activist Communities. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago Hilton, Chicago, IL. 

Organizer: Scholarly Conferences

Local Organizing Committee Member, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

Organizing Committee Member, Hegemonic Transitions and the State Conference, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.

Presentations at Scholarly Conferences

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. The Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) System: Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Medicine at the Ottawa Hospital. Paper presentation at Forum, Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, Toronto, ON.

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Politicizing Domestic Fieldwork in Canada. Paper presentation at the Ethnography in Canada Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Nanotechnology and Health in British Columbia: From Boundary Object to Bodily Intervention. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago Hilton, Chicago, IL. 

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Why Thinking Outside of the Box Can Help Save Lives: Applied Anthropology and Disaster Emergency Management Today. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

Wallace, Bruce, Jane Pulkingham, Seth Klein, Tim Stainton, and Karen-Marie Elah Perry. Roundtable: Welfare Restructuring in British Columbia. Economic Security Project findings presented at the joint session of the Canadian Political Science Association and the Canadian Sociology Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Politicizing Bio-Nanotechnology Revisited. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Doubletree Plaza Hotel, Montreal, QC.

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Politicizing Bio-Nanotechnology. Paper presented at the Hegemonic Transitions and the State Conference, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.

Presentations at Community-Based Conferences and Events

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Assisted Living Recommendations.  BC Hospital Employees’ Union 3rd Independent Bargaining Conference for Seniors’ Care: Quality Jobs for Quality Care. Vancouver, BC.

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. The CAREN Research Study, Findings in Focus: Physiotherapists’ Tactics for Addressing Patient “Cheating.” The Ottawa Hospital, Physiotherapy Department, Ottawa, ON.

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Rural Disaster Resilience Project. Paper presented at the Justice Institute of British Columbia’s Applied Research Day, Justice Institute of British Columbia, New Westminster, BC.

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Rural Disaster Resilience Project. Poster presented at the Annual Emergency Preparedness Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Out, Young and Safe. Workshop presented regarding LGBTQ2S+ youth safety in rural communities at Rainbow Conference, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC.

Guest Lectures

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. The Anthropology of Virtual Reality and the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment. Anth. 304: Technology and Culture, University of Victoria, Department of Anthropology, Victoria, BC.

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Applied Anthropology and Life Saving Techniques in Disaster Emergency Management. Anth. 100: Introduction to Anthropology, University of Victoria, Department of Anthropology, Victoria, BC.

Perry, Karen-Marie Elah. Applied Anthropology and Disaster Emergency Management: Opportunities and Barriers. Graduate Colloquium. University of Victoria, Department of Anthropology, Victoria, BC.