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**Registration tickets for the Comics and Medicine Conference are sold out. Please see graphicmedicine.org to find out about our extensive and free public programming.
June 15th: Opening Reception
June 16th: Keynote talks from Dr. Hillary Chute and Georgia Webber, plus a full day of panels and workshops
June 17th: Keynote talk from Rupert Kinnard, plus panels, workshops, and our comics marketplace
**Optional satellite events!
June 14th: Round table discussion with Dr. Hillary Chute on queer representation, healthcare access, and comics; UW campus CMU 202/204, 10:30-1:30
June 17th: Librarian brownbag session with MK Czerwiec, Seattle Central Library, further details forthcoming
June 18th: MK Czerwiec reading and book-signing, Taking Turns, Elliott Bay Book Company, 3:00 PM
This year's Comics & Medicine Conference will consider accessibility as a crucial aspect linking comics and health. Comics, a medium broadly understood as providing a platform for marginalized and diverse voices, can make visible and reflect upon the urgent subject of health access. Comics can explore accessibility in past and current practices of health care and can point to imaginative solutions for extending and expanding health care. Join us for discussion, practice, and community-building.
We are excited to introduce this year's keynote speakers:
Rupert Kinnard created the first LGBTQ-identified African American comic strip characters in his groundbreaking series Cathartic Comics. His comics work, including his much anticipated memoir-in-progress LifeCapsule Project, spans all facets of his personal identity, from race, gender, and sexuality to classism, ageism, and disability. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Arts Foundation in 2013.
Georgia Webber is a comics artist, craniosacral therapist, meditation facilitator, and radio producer living in the cities of Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario. Her most notable comics series, Dumb, chronicles her severe vocal injury and ongoing (sometimes silent) recovery.
Hillary Chute is the author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (Columbia UP, 2010), Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists (University of Chicago Press, 2014), and Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form (Harvard University Press, 2016). She has also co-edited two journal special issues: Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies on Graphic Narrative (2006) and Critical Inquiry on Comics & Media (2014), and she is Associate Editor of Art Spiegelman's MetaMaus (Pantheon, 2011).
For more information about conference programming, lodging, and other details, please check Graphic Medicine's website at http://www.graphicmedicine.org/.
In order to promote accessibility, all three keynote talks, select panels and workshops, and the comics marketplace will be free and open to the public up to the capacity of the auditorium. Presenters and others interested in participating in the broader range of programming should register here.
There are a limited number of discounted scholarship rates for artists, students, and others for whom the regular cost is prohibitive. Please email a brief explanation (200 words maximum) of how a scholarship would help you to attend the conference to graphic.medicine.conference@gmail.com with the subject header SCHOLARSHIP.
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LocationSeattle Central Library (View)
1000 Fourth Ave.
Seattle, WA 98104
United States
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