Our Graphic Medicine YouTube playlist now has over 50 videos. Episodes of The Graphic Medicine Podcast are frequently posted as videos so images from talks can be seen. You can see a list of all videos in the playlist here. More very special content surprises are to come in the new year. If you don’t want to miss out, subscribe to our playlist to get email alerts when new videos are added.
‘Documenting Trauma: Comics and the Politics of Memory’
Short notice, but one of our keynote speakers, Hillary Chute is speaking at this one-day conference in Oxford on Thursday, hosted by the Torch Network, which looks fascinating.
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
Questionnaire For A Graphic Medicine Searchable Database
A computer science undergraduate student from London is conducting an online survey for a graphic medicine project they are working on. It is quick and easy. Please be generous and help them out by responding to the questions. https://goo.gl/prG692 “I am a Business Computing undergraduate student currently conducting my final year individual project. I am designing and building an online searchable database of mental health and general health-related comic books and comics-related resources (‘graphic medicine’).We are asking for your help to participate in a brief online survey which seeks to gather feedback from comics scholars that may help us understand better… Read More
CFP: ‘Documenting Trauma: Comics and the Politics of Memory’
CALL FOR PAPERS ‘Documenting Trauma: Comics and the Politics of Memory’ Confirmed Speakers: Nicola Streeten, Hillary Chute A Symposium hosted by the TORCH Network, ‘Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form’ Thursday 22nd June 2017, TORCH, University of Oxford In the graphic novel Waltz with Bashir (2009), adapted from Ari Folman and David Polonsky’s 2008 animated film, the traumatised protagonist attempts to come to terms with his personal experience of the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s. In so doing, he seeks help from a psychologist, who informs him that ‘Memory… Read More
New Podcast: More Doctors Making Comics!
On this week’s episode, two more doctors making comics. Plus a new theme jingle! First, Monica Lalanda, an emergency room physician from Spain. You can learn more about Monica’s work, and her book Con-Ciencia Medica on her site. She tweets @mlalanda. Here is one of her comics translated into English. My second guest is geriatrician Muna AlJawad, presenter at the 2011 Chicago Comics & Medicine conference and organizer of the 2013 Comics & Medicine conference in Brighton, England, and creator of Old Person Whisperer. Muna is currently doing research using comics as her methodology. Support for this podcast comes from… Read More
HIV Disclosure Comics
The Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) is a longitudinal cohort study investigating the long-term effects of HIV infection and ARV (antiretroviral) medications in children and young adults who were born with HIV or born exposed to HIV. The study follows newborns, young children, adolescents, and young adults. One part of the study, the use of a comic for maternal disclosure of HIV status, is discussed in this podcast. Researcher Claire Berman presented this study, and the comics related to it, at our 2015 conference in Riverside, California and on a Health Comics panel at San Diego ComicCon. Click below to play… Read More
Royal Road to Wisdom: Tarot Cards and Justin Green’s BINKY BROWN MEETS THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY
From: The Explicator ISSN: 0014-4940 (Print) 1939-926X (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/vexp20 Royal Road to Wisdom: Tarot Cards and Justin Green’s BINKY BROWN MEETS THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY by Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Sweetha Saji To cite this article: Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Sweetha Saji (2016) Royal Road to Wisdom: Tarot Cards and Justin Green’s BINKY BROWN MEETS THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY, The Explicator, 74:3, 170-172, DOI: 10.1080/00144940.2016.1203753 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2016.1203753 Published online: 11 Aug 2016. KEYWORDS Tarot cards; OCD; underground commix; graphic memoir Published in the underground in 1972, Justin Green’s Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is an autobiographical graphic… Read More
Call for Papers: A Nordic Network for Comics Research conference hosted by Ghent University in collaboration with the University of Liège (ACME) and KU Leuven
A Nordic Network for Comics Research conference hosted by Ghent University in collaboration with the University of Liège (ACME) and KU Leuven April 20-21, 2017 Ghent, Belgium Introduction “Memory is tabooed as unpredictable, unreliable, irrational”, deplored Adorno more than half a century ago (122). Although nowadays the study of memory has established itself, memory remains an untamable beast, broad and interdisciplinary in its scope. This conference seeks to understand memory, and more specifically the relationship between comics and memory, by welcoming papers on the following three lines of inquiry: 1. Personal memory Research on comics and personal memory… Read More
Medicine Unboxed: Students 2016 Call for Participation
Medicine Unboxed: Students 2016 Call for Participation Deadline: Midnight Sunday 3 July 2016 At a time of extraordinary scientific knowledge and therapeutic possibility, medicine faces significant moral, political and social challenges. Medicine Unboxed engages the general public and healthcare audiences with a view of medicine that points to human experience, ethical reflection and political debate. We believe the arts can illuminate this perspective, inspire conversation and foster a sense of awe and wonder. Our annual events attract audiences of 350 people and bring writers, politicians, philosophers, musicians, performers, theologians and artists into dialogue with clinicians and patients. Medicine Unboxed 2016 is… Read More