19. ComFor-Jahrestagung 2024: „Graphic Medicine“ in Groningen

Termin:
23.10.2024 14:30 Uhr - 25.10.2024

Vom 23.-25. Oktober 2024 wird die 19. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor) an der Universität Groningen in den Niederlanden stattfinden. Organisiert wird die Veranstaltung von Janina Wildfeuer und Barbara Postema. Keynote Speaker sind Elisabeth El Refaie (Cardiff University), Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff (Freie Universität Berlin) und Erin La Cour (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

„Initiated in 2007, the area of study called ‘Graphic Medicine’ has developed into an impressive field of research that is today broadly understood as “the intersection of the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare” (Czerwiec et al. 2015). As a discipline, it understands itself as an ‘emerging area of interdisciplinary academic study’ including both theoretical and methodological developments from several disciplines connected to comics studies as well as practical insights and applications from medical practitioners in the healthcare context.

 The conference would like to bring these theoretical and methodological developments as well as practical insights and applications together and offer a fruitful place for discussion and critical evaluation of the discipline and its most recent developments and insights. We aim at opening the conference again for an international context with topics such as: Graphic Medicine for Scholarship, Graphic Storytelling and Medical Narrative; Graphic Pathography; Iconography of Illness; practical applications of Graphic Medicine.

Programm:

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

14:30: Opening (with Coffee) 

15:00 – 16:30: Panel 1

Andrea Hoff:
Adventures with Miss Conduct: Graphic Medicine as a Neurodivergent Origin Story

Kerstin von Bargen:
Neurodiversität im Comic – Vermittlung von „anderen Arten zu denken“

Shweta Gupta:
Critical Analysis of the Evolution and Role of Iconography of Illness in the 21st century 

16:45 – 18:00: Keynote
Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff, Freie Universität Berlin:
Ageing in Graphic Narratives: On Frailty, Embodied Memories, and Relational Selves

19:00: Dinner  @ Weeva
(self-paid, please register!)  

Thursday, 24 October 2024

09:00-11:00: Panel 2

Barbara M. Eggert:
Against Black-and-White Thinking! Coloring Mental Illness in Autobiographical Comics and Medication Advertising 

Octavia Roodt:
Compassion Comics: Directing Empathy through Mindfulness-Based Compassion Principles

Eszter Szép:
My Body and/on the Line: Medical and Personal Look and Drawing the Female Body in Contemporary Hungarian Comics

Lisa Daria Kennedy:
Diary Comics: Drawn to Life

11:00 – 11:15: Coffee Break

11:15-13:00: Panel 3

Paul Mitchell:
Men’s Cancers in Autographic Illness Comics

Imke Heine:
Nicht real, aber wahr: Von der Autobiographie zum semi-fiktionalen Sachcomic bei Lou Lubie

Raghavi R. K.:
“I am grateful to my Cancer”: Breast Cancer and Indian Graphic Narratives

13:00-14:15: Lunch Break, Coffee

14.15-15.30: Keynote
Elisabeth El Refaie, Cardiff University:

Fostering embodied empathy though visual metaphor in graphic illness narratives

15:30-17:00: Panel 4

Katharina Hülsmann:
The Autobiographical Manga of Nagata Kabi – A Multi-Layered Work in Progress

Arnold Bärtschi:
About Hare Droppings and Horse Saliva. Functionalizations of Ancient Medicine in Mari Yamazakiʼs and Miki Toriʼs Manga Plinius

María José Mompeán Mejías:
Patient-Clinician Communication in the Shadow of the Disease: The Difference an Image Can Make

17:00: Exhibition:

Survivors: Reborn from Ashes, Meet the Artist: Mo Qasem

18:30: Award Ceremony Martin-Schüwer-Preis
Borrel/Drinks

Friday, 25 October 2024

09:00-11:00: Panel 5

Mia Vrijens:
The Nurses’ Image Boomeranged

Fernando Casanova:
Iconography of Hypnosis: Exploring its Application to Language and Memory Disorders in French-Language Comics

Dusan Stamenkovic, Ielka van der Sluis, Janina Wildfeuer:
Adjective Traits and First Aid: Do We Trust Help Givers in Pictorial Instructions?

Massih Zekavat:
Comics, Humor, and Planetary Health 

11:00-11:15: Coffee Break

11:15-12:15: Panel 6 

Katharina Hülsmann, Tatjana Kasigkeit, Lea Zindel:
Open Educational Resources for Teaching on Comics: The collaborative project “Comicforschung.nrw” 

12:1513:30: Lunch Break

13:30-14:45: Keynote
Erin La Cour, VU Amsterdam
A Movement for Change: Transdisciplinary, Collaborative Graphic Medicine

14:45-16:30: Workshop Mark Hektor
Science Communication and Visuals 

16:30: Closing 

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