Join the uOttawa occupational therapy learning, teaching and clinical supervision community for the Anne Lang-Étienne Memorial Lecture, which will be delivered at the end of the annual symposium featuring presentations of our master’s research papers.

2023 lecture

Hiba Zafran

Presentation title: Finding the words, discerning the light: The occupation of storytelling injustice

Date, time and place: July 28, 1 p.m. to 2.15 p.m., RGN 2003

Hiba Zafran, PhD, is a queer, introverted multiple migrant, whose cultural roots are in the Levant. She acknowledges that she lives on the unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá:ka people, in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). As an occupational therapist and psychotherapist, she divides her time between being an assistant professor (teaching) at McGill University, a practitioner working with marginalized emergent adults, and as a consultant on equity and accountability initiatives with national and community organizations.

Hiba Zafran

Previous lectures

Dr. Gayle Restall

Gayle Restall is a retired professor and a researcher in the Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Rehabilitation Sciences, at the University of Manitoba. In the 2022 Anne Lang-Étienne Memorial Lecture, she inspired students, occupational therapists and other program members with her presentation, “The Ethical and Moral Imperatives of Relationship Building in Occupational Therapy.” She proposed areas to consider and strategies to move towards a collaboration-based occupational therapy practices.

Gayle Restall

Dr. Barry Trentham

Barry Trentam is an assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto and academic coordinator, Mississauga campus (UTM). He gave the second Anne Lang-Étienne lecture by videoconference August 6, 2021. The presentation was titled “Crafting Spaces for Advocacy and Allyship Through Critical Intersectional Peer Dialogue,” a topic which resonated considerably with the audience.

Dr. Barry Trentham

Dr. Rachel Thibault

Rachel Thibault, a retired occupational therapy professor at the University of Ottawa, was the guest of honour for the first Anne Lang-Étienne lecture, which took place by videoconference July 31, 2020. In her presentation, “L’activité intentionnelle eudémonique et la relation d’aide,” she addressed resilience as well as the five transformative activities that bring meaning and wellness. The event allowed the occupational therapy community at uOttawa to gather and pay tribute to Anne Lang-Étienne’s values and vision. The event was a great success.

Dr. Rachel Thibault

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