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2011 Chicago Conference

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Comics & Medicine: The Sequential Art of Illness

June 9-11, 2011 – Chicago, IL

Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

This second international interdisciplinary conference explored the past, present, and possible future of comics in the context of the healthcare experience.

“The coolest conference on earth.” –Rinko Endo

read the New York Times story on the conference.

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The conference opened with an exhibit of comic art being used in medicine.

Conference Keynote speakers were:

David Small
Phoebe Gloeckner
Paul Gravett

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The conference featured presentations by thirty panelists discussing ways they are using comics in medicine.

Photos from the conference can be viewed here.

The conference featured workshops by Neil Phillips, Brian Fies (you can watch portions on Brian’s blog at that link) and Sarah Leavitt.

The conference concluded with a free public lecture and Q&A by Scott McCloud

Ian Williams’ blog post about the conference can be read here.

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This event was co-sponsored by the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine, and the Science, Technology and Society Program of Penn State University, and was supported by a grant from Jean Schulz.

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 

THURSDAY JUNE 9, 2011

Welcome reception & Graphic Medicine Conference art exhibit

 

FRIDAY JUNE 10, 2011

Registration, Continental Breakfast, and Book Sales

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks, 

Michael Green, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine

 

The History of Graphic Medicine: Keynote address by Paul Gravett

audio available here

 

Anatomy of a Cartoonist: Keynote address by Phoebe Gloeckner

audio available here

Panel 1: Comics in Medical Education

Moderated by Katie Watson

 

The Use of Comics in Medical Education

          Kavita Vakharia, Mary Anne Carrillo and

Michael Green, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine

 

     Resisting Closure: Graphic Texts and the Search for a Good Ending

Linda Raphael,George Washington University School of Medicine

 

     Loosening the Grip: Use of Cartoons in a Medical Textbook

Stuart Copans, Dartmouth Medical School

 

 

Panel 2: Young Adult Health in Comics

Moderated by Ian Williams

 

Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: Sex Ed Comics in the Medical Humanities

Susan Squier, Penn State University

 

Using Spiritual Resources to Deal with Psychic & Physical Suffering

Peter Stringham, retired physician, cartoonist

 

The Confrontation of Mortality Through Image and Text

Andrew Rostan, independent graphic novelist

 

Workshop 1: Neil Phillips

Mental Health: Cartoons, Comics, and Communication

audio available here

 

Panel 3:  Graphic Memoirs & Psychic Pain

Moderated by Susan Squier

 

Challenging the Idea of Optimism: 

      Miriam Engelberg’s Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person

          Sharon O’Brien, Dickinson College (via Susan Squier)

 

     The Space in and of Comics: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

     and Graphic Narrative Autobiography

Hillary Chute, University of Chicago

     

     The Next Day: Drawing from Interviews with Suicide Survivors

         John Porcellino, independent comic artist

 

Panel 4: Bearing Witness to Illness 

 

Moderated by Michael Green

 

Compassion vs. Rage: The Comics of Dr. Thom Ferrier

Ian Williams, editor, graphicmedicine.org, independent cartoonist

North Wales, UK

audio available here

 

What it’s Like: Articulating Parkinson’s Disease 

       Through Visual Narrative

Shelley Wall, University of Toronto

audio available here

 

       From Sketchbook to Graphic Memoir: 

       Documenting a Family’s  Struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease

Sarah Leavitt, cartoonist, editor, Vancouver

audio available here

 

Workshop 2: Brian Fies: 

Making Comics: See One, Do One, Teach One

discussion and video available here

 

The Voice of the Eye: Keynote address by David Small

audio available here

 

Reception and Stitches signing by David Small

 

SATURDAY JUNE 11, 2011

Continental Breakfast, Book Sales

 

Panel 5: Picturing Disability 

Moderator: Brian Fies

 

Depictions of Medical Spaces and Disabilities

Miriam Zander, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

 

Graphic Witness: Doonesbury and Traumatic Brain Injury

MK Czerwiec, Northwestern University

Debjani Mukherjee, Northwestern University

 

Panel 6: Imagining the Body

Moderated by Ian Williams

The Aesthetics of Dissection: Diagrams in Medicine and Comics

Chris Lanier, Sierra Nevada College

 

Bodies in the Gutter: Reviewing Medical Ethics, and 

    Aesthetics in A Child’s Life, Spiral Cage, and Cuckoo

Theresa Tensuan, Haverford College

 

Gross, Gruesome, and Graphic: Comics and Biomedical Horror

Catherine Belling, Northwestern University, Feinberg College of

Medicine

 

Panel 7: David B.’s Epileptic 

Moderated by Paul Gravett

 

A Sibling’s Experience of Loss in Epileptic

Esther Saltzman, University of Memphis

 

Graphic Heterotropias: Treating Epilepsy in L’Ascension du Haut-Mal

Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook University

 

 

Panel 8: Health Care Reform as Comics: 

What it is, Why it’s Necessary, How it Works

Moderated by Martha Cornog, Library Journal

Thomas LeBien, publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

James Bucky Carter, University of Texas at El Paso

Vineet Arora, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Ethan Persoff, Comics With Problems

R. Toby Greenwalt, Skokie Public Library

 

Panel 9: Two Takes on a Text

Moderated by Brian Fies

 

Cancer, Culture, and Community: Telling Stories, Building Community

Craig Martin, Purdue University Galleries

 

His Cancer Year: Harvey Pekar’s Alienating Identification

Mita Mahato, University of Puget Sound

 

Panel 12: Comics as Education

Moderated by Susan Squier

An Illustrated Brochure in the Style of a Comic Book to 

    Educate People Living with AIDS About Prevention of

    Foodborne Disease

Mark Dworkin, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public

Health

A Call for Help: Diabetes and Comics

Adam Perry, Penn State University

Logan Perry, Academy of Art, San Francisco

 

Aggression Management Manga

Rinko Endo, Chicago Lakeshore Hospital

 

Panel 10: Neurology, Autism, and Comics

Moderated by Susan Squier

 

Comics on the Brain

Neil Phillips, Aboriginal Medical Service, Shrink-Rap Press

 

Drawing Different: Creating Comics About Asperger Syndrome 

    and Autism Spectrum Disorders

John Swogger, freelance illustrator, Wales, UK

 

Picturing Disability: Drawing Autism and the Savage of Averyon

Courtney Angermeier, University of New Mexico

Jeff Benham, freelance artist

 

Panel 11: Comics as Process & Method

Moderated by Michael Green

 

Applying Comics to Patient Care: Proposal for a Development Process

Rose Anderson, Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation

Losing Patience: A Geritrician’s Attempt at Ethnographic Research

    Through Comics

Muna Al-Jawad, Brighton and Sussex University Hospital

 

Workshop 3:  Sarah Leavitt:

From Diary to Graphic Narrative: 

Finding the Story in Your Personal Experience 

 

 

Public lecture by Scott McCloud: 

Comics and Visual Communication

 

followed by a Q&A with Scott McCloud 

moderated by Katie Watson

 

 

Closing reception and book signings 

Location: Quimby’s Bookstore

1854 W. North Avenue

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