New England Graphic Medicine Summit Returns
Sharing news about the return of the New England Graphic Medicine Summit this Fall! Check out the event website for more updates.
We are pleased to announce the return of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Summit on October 24, 2025, featuring a half-day incubator designed to foster community and collaboration at the intersection of healthcare and comics across New England. Since the conference’s original launch in 2019 as “the New England Graphic Medicine ComicCon,” the field of Graphic Medicine has grown considerably in Boston and the region.
This year’s event – hosted by MCPHS University on Longwood Avenue, a world-renowned hub for hospitals, medical research centers, and academic institutions – will consist of presentations, panels, and workshops, both in-person and virtually, to connect, illuminate, and expand the area’s Graphic Medicine community. An additional aim is to galvanize interest and coordinate organizers for a potential larger regional conference in 2026. Proposals are sought from those living in New England or focusing on the region, comparing their region to New England, or creating material on/for specifically New England, including, but not limited to, scholarly, creative, clinical, and pedagogical by readers, creators, students, educators, scholars, retailers, librarians, clinicians, and healthcare policy makers.
Please mark your calendars, with registration details and full agenda to be announced soon. Proposals (of approx. 200 words, fully listing all contributors) will be due by September 2, 2025.
Register to Attend or Present
The New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Summit will welcome a number of registered individuals to the Boston campuses on Friday, October 24th as well as have unlimited online attendance opportunities. Please signal your interest in attending, either in person (limited numbers available), over Zoom, or as an on-site presenter here: Attend NEGM 25!
Call for Proposals
Proposals are sought on the topic of Graphic Medicine. With an eye towards serving as an incubator for both a 2026 event as well as developing new, rising, or innovative voices, proposals should come from those living in New England or focusing on the region, comparing their region to New England, or creating material on/for specifically New England – including, but not limited to, scholarly, creative, clinical, and pedagogical by readers, creators, students, educators, scholars, retailers, librarians, clinicians, and healthcare policy makers.
Covering all aspects of sequential art, graphic novels, and narrative, Graphic Medicine operates at the intersection of healthcare and comics. ”Graphic Medicine is also a movement for change that challenges the dominant methods of scholarship in healthcare, offering a more inclusive perspective of medicine, illness, disability, caregiving, and being cared for. Comics give voice to those who are often not heard […] Graphic Medicine resists the notion of the universal patient and vividly represents multiple subjects with valid and at times conflicting points of view and experiences” (MK Czerwiec, Graphic Medicine Manifesto, p. 2).
Proposals should be submitted using the bottom half of the Attend NEGM 25 Google form. Proposals are due by 9/2/25.
Registration for NEGM25 is free, and confirmation e-mails will go out in September.
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Please direct all questions to negm.main@gmail.com, thank you.
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