Comics and Medicine 6^th International Conference: 

SPACES OF CARE

16^th – 18^th July 2015

Culver Arts Center

University of California, Riverside

The theme of the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference, Spaces of Care, invites us to think about space as a critical element in health care and comics. Receiving medical treatment can affect how we relate to and interact with each other and our environments. Medical care is often thought of as taking place primarily in clinical spaces. A strength of comics is their ability to visualize care beyond these settings to include geographic, physical, ideological, imaginative, temporal, and social spaces.

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The Keynote speakers (audio coming soon)

Carol Tyler, Adjunct Professor of Fine Art, University of Cincinnati

creator of You’ll Never Know, Late Bloomer, The Job Thing

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Steven Keewatin Sanderson, self taught animator and illustrator

creator of Journey of the Healer

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Justin Green, sign painter and cartoonist

 creator of Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary

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 Jared Gardner, Professor English & Film Studies, The Ohio State University

author of Projections: Comics and the History of 21st-century Storytelling

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Conference Schedule

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Conference image courtesy of Lydia Gregg