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CFP: Comics on the Couch: Graphic Medicine and Psychoanalysis

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Call for Papers Comics on the Couch: Graphic Medicine and Psychoanalysis A Special Issue of American Imago Edited by Vera J. Camden and Valentino L. Zullo   The field of narrative medicine recognizes that stories articulate the language of the body. Rita Charon, the founder of the field of narrative medicine, brought both patient and practitioner to a fuller recognition of stories as a source of medical insight and intervention: stories that may take shape in words but originate through bodily drives. Drawing lessons from psychoanalysis about “attention, drives, and relationships,” she reminded us that the nineteenth-century photographs of hysteria captured… Read More

CFP: Transitions 9: New Directions in Comics Studies

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deadline for submissions: March 7, 2021 full name / name of organization: Transitions contact email: transitions.symposium@gmail.com CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSITIONS 9 – new directions in comics studies 2021 Online 8-10 April 2021 Hosted By BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Following the cancellation of Transitions 2020, we are delighted to re-announce the call for papers for Transitions 9 in 2021. Transitions is a platform for emerging research in comics that is free to attend and participate. This event is focused towards postgraduate and early career speakers, and draws a diverse crowd of both new and more established researchers, as well as creators,… Read More

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

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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

CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19

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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

This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/8/2019)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights news about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary. So without further ado… Note: This Week in Graphic Medicine will NOT be posted next week (11/15) as the GM team will be at a retreat.  Matthew’s Pick of the Week… I promise this isn’t a paid ad and I normally don’t plug sales, but this time I have to: you can get 30 – 50% off of titles in the PSU Press Graphic Medicine series between now and November… Read More

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

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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

This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/1/2019)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights news about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… Pick this week HAS to be this fantastic article about using My Degeneration to enhance clinician’s understanding and empathy by a slew of GM folks: Use of a Graphic Memoir to Enhance Clinicians’ Understanding of and Empathy for Patients with Parkinson Disease. I also want to use this space to apologize for the inconsistency of TWIGM throughout the Fall. I can’t promise… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/4/2019)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights news about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary. So without further ado… Note: Apologies for the unexpected off-week last week and thanks to Alice for filling in the week before! There will be some attempt at catching up with links below, but things are surely missed. It was unavoidable. Matthew’s Pick of the Week… I know it isn’t quite new news now, but I just want to celebrate Lynda Barry’s winning a MacArthur genius grant! This is seriously… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/9/2019)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights news about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week, I’ve come across two comics that strike me as near-required reading. [Both are potentially triggering.] First, this webcomic by Julia Wertz – Things You Might Not Know About Miscarriage. Second, this webcomic by Kailin Walker & Kerry Wineberg – What is Kindness?. Articles & More…  CFP: Comics and Technology: 3rd Annual Conference of the Comics Study Society CFP: Call… Read More

CFP – Studies in Comics – Special Issue on Comics and Education

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deadline for submissions:  November 1, 2019 full name / name of organization:  Studies in Comics contact email:  studiesincomics@googlemail.com Special Issue 11.1: Comics and Education Articles are invited for a special issue of Studies in Comics (11.1) on the theme of Comics and Education. Comics have enjoyed a resurgence in the classroom as educators, creators, and scholars have come to recognise the diverse ways in which the medium can be used to support literacy, communication skills, and creativity. Significantly, the use of comics for and as education also promotes cross-medial learning, as readers may use the form as a starting point for further… Read More