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Sep
10
2020

How to Have Comics in a Pandemic... - MK Czerwiec

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When: Thursday, September 10, 2020
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT

Where: Online

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: FREE – REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Contact: Myria Knox   (312) 503-7962

Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures

Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings, Multicultural & Diversity

Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

MK Czerwiec, RN, MA
Artist-in-Residence, MH&B Graduate Program 
Alum, Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

How to Have Comics in a Pandemic:
A Discussion of the Role of Graphic Medicine During Covid-19

What can a community of artists, writers, caregivers, academics, and fans do to be helpful during a pandemic? In this talk, co-founder of the field of graphic medicine and graduate of the MA program in Medical Humanities & Bioethics, MK Czerwiec will discuss curating the comics that have emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic, how these comics have been used as resources throughout the world, and how the graphic medicine community pivoted to meet the needs for connection, processing and art-making. 

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