Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Panel 1

Andrea Hoff - cancelled
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 

Keynote
Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff, Freie Universität Berlin

Ageing in Graphic Narratives: On Frailty, Embodied Memories, and Relational Selves 

Thursday, 24 October 2024

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

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

Keynote

Elisabeth El Refaie, Cardiff University

Fostering embodied empathy though visual metaphor in graphic illness narratives

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

Friday, 25 October 2024

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?

Panel 6 

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

Keynote
Erin La Cour, VU Amsterdam
A Movement for Change: Transdisciplinary, Collaborative Graphic Medicine

Workshop Mark Hektor
Science Communication and Visuals