RESILIENCE
This year’s symposium theme, Resilience, reflects the collective strength required to advance human health in space and on Earth.
Space health is a field shaped by uncertainty, innovation, and exploration. Across the program, we will examine resilience through the experiences of trainees, academic researchers, industry leaders, astronauts, and the broader space health community.
The symposium's schedule will include research sessions from a mix of invited speakers and others selected from general abstract submission, as well as poster presentations as submitted by attendees.
The symposium will start early morning on November 2, 2026, and end late afternoon on November 4, 2026. Note that all scheduled items on November 2nd and 3rd will occur in the Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium, 1001 boul. Décarie, Montréal, QC, Block E. An additional event (to be confirmed) may take place on November 4th on a different location (with transportation provided by the organizers).
2026 Symposium'S Special Exhibition by Cecil Castellucci
I WISH I DIDN’T MISS YOU is a work-in-progress video installation examining communication and time delay that astronauts will be dealing with as we move further away from Earth. The installation attempts to show the emotional toll and the delays of waiting for responses to and from conversation partners over such long distances. The project is presented at the 2026 Canadian Space Health Research Symposium, and it was created for and supported by CSHRNet.
Cecil Castellucci is the Eisner nominated, Shuster award winning and New York Times Bestselling author of novels and graphic novels. Titles include, Shade, the Changing Girl, The Plain Janes, Soupy Leaves Home, Female Furies, Shifting Earth, and Odd Duck. Her short stories have been published in EC Comics Cruel Universe, Strange Horizons, Reactor.com, and other anthologies. In 2023 they were awarded a Fulbright to Denmark where they are a guest lecturer at The Graphic Storytelling Program at TAW in Viborg. A long time space enthusiast, they volunteer with the NASA Solar System Ambassador Program. They’ve written librettos for operas which incorporate comics and science. They edited a Carlsberg Foundation supported comics anthology blackholecomicbook.com in collaboration with students at TAW and scientists at the Center of Gravity at Niels Bohr Institute. They live in Montreal.