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Reminder – CFP –Special Issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Deadline February 1st, 2021.

Jan. 11, 2021 by Ian Williams

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Title of Special Issue: Cripping Graphic Medicine: Approaching Comics from a Disability Studies Perspective. Guest Editors: Gesine Wegner (Leipzig University) and Dorothee Marx (Kiel University) At first glance, a wider public may find the connection between comics and disability rather counterintuitive, as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson remarks: “Most of us assume that comics and disability exist in two completely different worlds. […] Comics are light; disability is heavy. Comics are inviting; disability is forbidding. Comics are cheerful; disability is dismal” (Garland-Thomson 2016: x). Yet, as a growing amount of scholarship in recent years has shown (Squier and Krüger-Fürhoff 2020; Foss et al…. Read More

Categories: Call For Papers Tags: Cripping, disability, disability ethics, disability studies

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies

Nov. 6, 2020 by Ian Williams

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Special Issue: Cripping Graphic Medicine: Approaching Comics from a Disability Studies Perspective Guest Editors: Gesine Wegner (Leipzig University) and Dorothee Marx (Kiel University) At first glance, a wider public may find the connection between comics and disability rather counterintuitive, as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson remarks: “Most of us assume that comics and disability exist in two completely different worlds. […] Comics are light; disability is heavy. Comics are inviting; disability is forbidding. Comics are cheerful; disability is dismal” (Garland-Thomson 2016: x). Yet, as a growing amount of scholarship in recent years has shown (Squier and Krüger-Fürhoff 2020; Foss et al. 2016), explorations… Read More

Categories: Call For Papers, Uncategorized Tags: call for papers, CFP, crimping, disability, disability studies, German Graphic Medicine, Kiel, Leipzig

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CFP: Flyover Comics Symposium

Jun. 22, 2020 by Matthew Noe

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See the full conference information and submit your proposal at: https://digital-frontiers.org/satellite-events/flyover/ The events of 2020 have disrupted normal patterns for professional conferences, resulting in cancellations of major comics studies meetings. To fill the lacunae left by these cancellations, three university comics studies communities are uniting with Digital Frontiers to offer the Flyover Comics Symposium, a virtual conference for comics studies scholars, students, and professionals. Submissions If you have a proposal that was accepted to any canceled comics event in 2020, POW! you’re accepted! Just submit your 500-word abstract and upload a PDF of your acceptance notification in the submission form…. Read More

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CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19

Apr. 24, 2020 by Matthew Noe

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CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19 An edited collection on graphic medicine and graphic storytelling related to the COVID-19 global pandemic Editors: Alexandra P. Alberda Anna Feigenbaum William Proctor As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to infect millions, kill people around the world, dismantle political, economic and cultural infrastructures, and disrupt our everyday lives, we have seen a surge in amateur and professional creative activity in the comics medium. From blogs to Instagram, superheroes to public health, educational comics to graphic memoirs, etc., artists are engaging with a variety of genres, narratives, platforms and styles to tell stories.  This edited… Read More

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CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSITIONS 9 – new directions in comics studies 2020

Nov. 4, 2019 by Ian Williams

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CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSITIONS 9 – new directions in comics studies 2020 Birkbeck, University of London Saturday 21st March 2020 We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the Transitions 2020 symposium. Transitions is a platform for emerging research in comics that is free to attend and participate in. This event is focused towards postgraduate and early career speakers, and usually draws a diverse crowd of both new and more established researchers, as well as creators, aficionados and other interested parties. Our aim is to build connections between comics scholars working in diverse academic departments and contexts, to provide… Read More

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Make a contribution to improving healthcare communication in the Middle East. Call for papers

Nov. 4, 2019 by Ian Williams

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The first Healthcare Communications in the Middle East conference is taking place at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, in Doha, Qatar, on March 27-28, 2020. Qualitative and quantitative research papers, case studies, country reports, full sessions, thought papers, and theoretical discussions are requested on the following topics: Breaking bad news to patients Language issues or cultural differences in the workplace Talking about sensitive health and moral issues with patients Getting the right information from the patient (history taking) Talking to specific groups: elderly, children, people with disabilities, etc. Electronic medical record problems and electronic communications Referrals to other facilities or… Read More

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Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition

Oct. 29, 2019 by Ian Williams

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The Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2020 is now open to submissions. The deadline for entries is  28 February 2020. The competition is for a graphic novel-in-progress and is open to all cartoonists, and writers and artists working as a team, who have not previously published a full-length graphic work, and who currently reside in the UK. The winner will be offered the opportunity to develop their work-in-progress with Myriad’s creative and editorial team with a view to being offered a contract and publication. ENTER NOW Longlisted entrants will be notified by end of March 2020. Shortlisted entrants will be… Read More

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Call for papers – Enabling and Disability Comics for/about Young People: Within the Panels and Without. Amiens, 5th June 2020

Oct. 25, 2019 by Ian Williams

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From Lisa El Refaie: In 2020, Amiens will be the European Youth Capital (Amiens for Youth). On that occasion and for the year of Comics, the University of Picardy is organizing, in association with the universities of Artois, Lille and Brighton, and with the association “On a marché sur la bulle” a three-day interdisciplinary conference on “Comics and Youth” on 3rd, 4th and 5th June 2020. The research group CORPUS (Conflict, Representation and Dialogue in the English-speaking World, EA 4295) of the University of Picardy is planning an international study day on the representation of disability in comics about and/or… Read More

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AAG 2020 Call for Papers: Contesting marginalization: (carto)graphic representations of mental health

Oct. 1, 2019 by Matthew Noe

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Posted on behalf of Ebru Ustundag. Please contact them directly with questions. AAG 2020 Call for Papers: Contesting marginalization: (carto)graphic representations of mental health Organizers: Ebru Ustundag, Brock University, Canada Laurence Simard-Gagnon, York University, Canada Beverley Mullings, Queen’s University, Canada Linda Peake, York University, Canada Session Description Scholars have recently begun exploring the benefits of creative mediums to understand the complexities of health care and health inequities (Williams, 2012; Vaccarella, 2013; Quesenberry and Squier, 2015; de Leeuw and Hawkins, 2017; de Leeuw et al., 2018). Recent scholarship in geohumanities and health geographies has argued for the necessity of the incorporation… Read More

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Call for Abstracts: British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics, and the Medical and Health Humanities (Kent, 7-9 Feb 2020)

Aug. 6, 2019 by Matthew Noe

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The Aesthetics Research Centre at The University of Kent invites abstracts for: British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics, and the Medical and Health Humanities https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/newsandevents/index.html?view=2574 7–9 February 2020, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. This conference will bring together Analytic Aesthetics and the Medical and Health Humanities. These disciplines share important core concerns and have much to offer one another. The medical and health humanities explore the role of the humanities – and especially the arts – in medicine, medical education and healthcare. In the process they engage with many topics that are central to analytic aesthetics, including narrative, creativity, imagination,… Read More

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