Call for Contributors for “Missing Panels” Zine funded by the University of Leicester – Wellcome Trust ISSF. “Missing Panels” focuses on the impact a lack of representation has on the lives and mental health of members of BME communities, illustrating the need for more equal representation as one of the many strategies required to build a more equal society. Specifically, we are looking for contributors to create a 2 or 4-page full colour comic revolving around questions such as: i) is NHS outreach/campaign material inclusive to BME communities? ii) in what way has your personal experience of accessing health care… Read More
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 7th International Health Humanities Conference, Southampton 2018
From Professor Paul Crawford: Continuing the success of the IHHN conferences thus far we are pleased to announce the 7th Conference will be held in the cruise capital of Europe, Southampton, UK. We invite abstract submissions under the heading “Changing Society: Community Wellbeing and Transformation – How health humanities can change the world”. Call for: Papers We seek submission of abstracts for 15-20 minutes presentations, 1 hour symposia, or poster presentations, on (but not limited to): Creative practice in community wellbeing and societal change Bringing down the barriers, creative ways of breaking down boundaries between …. History of the… Read More
Call for Creative Work: Creative Manifesto, Translating Chronic Pain
From Sara Wasson, Translating Chronic Pain: Creative Manifesto (2017), http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/translating-pain Emerging from the Creative Manifesto, I invite submissions of ‘FLASH’ ILLNESS WRITING, short-form creative work – which expresses a moment or fragment of experience of persistent pain; – which takes either the perspective of a person experiencing the pain or the perspective of a witness (carer or healthcare professional); – which captures any dimension of experience – physical, emotional, social, economic, institutional, medical, spiritual, or creative; – which communicates in any emotional register, positive or negative; – and which can be shared and used by others to try and communicate the vivid, contradictory, and diverse realities of… Read More
All Is Not Well – New Website
Developed by Cardiff University and a group of independent comic creators, All Is Not Well aims to reflect the reality of life as a care giver via a series of short comic strips. Working in care has become one of the most thankless and undervalued jobs in society, yet it is one of the most important. Our aim is to try and give voice to some of the people involved in the caring of others. The site will host a variety of strips from creators who have worked as carers or been cared for themselves. These will feature alongside interviews with the creators, as well… Read More
Call for Papers: Bodies/Borders in Jewish Women’s Comics
Call for Papers: Bodies/Borders in Jewish Women’s Comics Edited by: Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, and Sarah Lightman Scholarship and publications on Jewish women and comics have grown considerably over the last five years. Studies such as the Eisner Award-winning Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (Lightman 2014), How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? (Oksman 2016) and our own special issue on “Contemporary Comics by Jewish Women” (Bauer, Greenbaum, Lightman, Studies in Comics 7:2 2015 ) have shown that Jewish women make a significant and varied contribution to contemporary comics. Prompted by the realization that… Read More
All Is Not Well – Comics About Care. Call for work.
Jonathan Clode, comics writer and former care manager, tells us about leaving his day job to focus on building a new website, dedicated to stories about the British care system. “Anyone working in comics will know that making a living out of it is hard, and that most of us will need a day job to keep the lights on. For me that job was learning disability support services in Cardiff. It was the best job I could ever hope for and genuinely inspired me. Over time I became a manager, with hopes of making lives better and helping people who had spent… Read More
Call for Art: Academic Medicine
The journal Academic Medicine is seeking submissions for its Cover Art feature. Cover Art in Academic Medicine is original artwork submitted by artists who have a connection to the academic medicine experience. Since 2008, each issue has featured a piece of original artwork on its cover along with a brief artist’s statement essay within the pages of the journal. Artists submit their own work (artwork and essay draft) at www.editorialmanager.com/acadmed. Submissions are reviewed internally by the journal’s editors, and accepted submissions are published after a staff editor works with the artist to edit the essay for publication. Artists retain copyright of their… Read More