Thursday July 16th
4:00 pm: Registration
4:00 – 5:00: Opening reception with Conference Exhibit. Drinks and light appetizers will be served.
5:00 – 5:15: Graphic Medicine Practice and Community, Mom’s Cancer creator Brian Fies
5:20 – 5:30: Penn State University Press and the Graphic Medicine Series, editor-in-chief Kendra Boileau
5:30 – 7:00: Graphic Medicine Manifesto Roundtable with the authors, moderated by Mita Mahato
7:00 – 8:00: Graphic Medicine Manifesto and The Bad Doctor Book Signing
Friday July 17th
8:00 – 8:30 am: Registration. Continental Breakfast will be provided.
8:30 – 9:00: Welcome
9:00 – 10:00: Keynote Speaker Jared Gardner
10:00 – 10:15: Break
10:15 -11:45: Session I
Screening Room: Narrating Care and Healing
Black Box Theater: Comics as Intervention
Hamilton Dance Room: Ethnographic Panels
Ocularium: Workshop: The Gag Reflex: How New Yorker Cartoons Represent Medicine by Benjamin Schwartz
11:45 – 1:15 Lunch – on your own
1:15 – 2:15 Keynote Justin Green
2:30 – 4:00: Session II
Screening Room: Women’s Bodies and Political Frames
Black Box Theater: Superheroes and Villains: Complicating Caring Spaces
Hamilton Dance Room: Interpreting Medical Encounters
Ocularium: Workshop: Integrating Comics: An Expansive Approach to Teaching Graphic Medicine by Nancy Miller
4:00 – 4:15: Break
4:15 – 4:30: Introduction to the Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences by Lydia Gregg
4:30 – 5:30: Keynote Steven Keewatin Sanderson
Saturday July 18th
8:00 – 8:30 Registration – Continental Breakfast will be provided.
8:30 – 10:00: Session III
Screening Room: Lightning Talks: Thoughtful Spaces in Comics: Education, Reflection, and Theory
Black Box Theater: Comics as Performance
Hamilton Dance Room: Space, Objects and Medical Materials
Ocularium: Workshop: Techniques and Tools of Storytelling by Brian Fies
10:00 –10:15: Break
10:15 -11:45: Session IV
Screening Room: Crossing Borders: Drawing Political and Bodily Spaces for Care
Black Box Theater: Lightning Talks: Moving Stories
Ocularium: Collaboration as a Space for Care
11:45 – 1:15: Lunch on your own.
1:15 – 2:15: Keynote by Carol Tyler
2:30 – 3:30: Reflection and Discussion Panel
3:30 – 5:30: Marketplace
Conference registration is now open. Details here.
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