Curating Health: Graphic Medicine And Visual Representations of Illness
The Nordic Network for Gender, Body, Health
in collaboration with the Division for Gender Studies, Stockholm University
CALL FOR PAPERS for the international conference
CURATING HEALTH: GRAPHIC MEDICINE AND VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ILLNESS
Place: Stockholm University
Date: Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th December 2018
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook University
Dr. Ian Williams, Manchester Medical School and Graphic Medicine
We invite individual presentations, panel proposals or artistic contributions from across a range of disciplines in the Humanities, Practice Arts, Social Sciences and Biomedicine that engage with the theme of graphic medicine and visual representations of health and illness in all their dimensions. Graphic medicine is one major theme, but proposals may also focus on other forms of (experimental) visual representation in areas such as autobiography and memoir, poster art and display, and visual narratives.
We are particularly interested in papers that address the power differentials of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, crip, queer and ageing.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 15th August 2018
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