January 19, 2010

What’s Wrong With The Star Wars Phantom Menace?

This is brilliant and hilarious! It will take an hour of your life, but if you grew up on STAR WARS like I did these videos will heal your Phantom Menace wounds while entertaining and educating you about story. Thank goodness for YouTube because this would never be seen otherwise.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Posted in Applied Narrative on January 19, 2010 : Comments (0)

December 14, 2009

Call for Papers and Posters on Comics and Medicine

Call for Papers and Posters on Comics and Medicine: Medical Narrative in Graphic Novels

Conference on Comics and Medicine: Medical Narrative in Graphic Novels

Papers and posters are invited on issues related to, but not restricted to, the following themes:

  • What motivates authors to produce graphic narratives with medical content?
  • How does the audience for this growing genre differ from traditional markets for so-called ‘pathographies’?
  • What additional insights can graphic narratives offer into healthcare compared with literature and film?
  • What international trends are discernible in the production and reception of medical graphic narratives?
  • What are the ethical implications of using graphic narratives to disseminate public health messages?
  • What are the strengths of graphic fiction in bioethics conversations? In conversations between patients and health care workers?
  • How have patients (and patient communities) turned to graphic fiction to communicate health care and advocacy information to other patients, their family and surrounding community, and their physicians?
  • How do patient-created graphic fictions/narratives differ from physician-or health-care industry-created graphic narratives? What does this imply about the role played by graphic fiction in institutionalized medicine?
  • How can graphic stories be used in medical education and patient education?
  • What are the roles of graphic stories in enhancing communication within the medical profession, in scholarship and in the medical humanities?

Contributions are sought from humanities scholars, comics scholars, healthcare professionals, comics enthusiasts, writers and cartoonists.

300 word proposals for a 20 minute paper or a poster should be submitted by Friday 29th January 2010 to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract We acknowledge receipt and answer to all proposals submitted. Abstracts will be peer reviewed blind and papers for presentation will be selected by Friday 26th of February 2010.

A report of the conference will be submitted to relevant journals and websites. All the papers and posters accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for development in a themed volume (subject to funding).

For more information: http://graphicmedicine.org/

Posted in Opportunities on December 14, 2009

December 07, 2009

Call for Proposals: Power of Words Conference

2010 Power of Words Conference Call For Proposals
Deadline for Submission: Friday January 15, 2010

The Power of Words conference will be held Sept. 23–26, 2010 at Goddard College in Plainfield, VT and is seeking workshop proposals!

The 7th Annual Power of Words conference brings together writers, storytellers, performers, musicians, educators, activists, healers, health professionals, community leaders, and more. All participants are united in the common exploration of how the written, spoken, and sung word can catalyze individual and communal liberation, celebration, and transformation.

We invite your proposals for experiential, didactic, and/or performance-based workshops that focus on writing, storytelling, drama, film, narrative medicine, songwriting, and other forms of Transformative Language Arts (TLA). We support proposals that focus on social change, the spoken or sung word, and how to make a living using transformative language arts in service to our communities. Because we are strongly committed to including individuals from diverse backgrounds, we encourage proposals from people of color and from presenters of many ages.

The 2010 conference features keynote speakers:

- Greg Greenway (Singer and poet who works with the social awareness of Woody Guthrie )
- S. Pearl Sharp (Writer/actress/filmmaker/broadcast journalist focusing on cultural arts, health and healing, and Black history)
- Kayhan Irani (An artivist using the the arts to deepen engagement with social issues and societal transformation. A writer, director, performer, and facilitator of Playback Theater)
- Katherine Towler (Poet, author, teacher – writes lyrical novels of family and place)

The 2010 conference will feature four thematic tracks. Particular consideration will be given to workshop proposals that forward one or more themes:

Right Livelihood A work life that is an expression of your gifts and makes a contribution to the world.
Social Transformation, the power of word to deepen engagement with social issues and transform self and society.
Engaged Spirituality, writing / employing spiritual pathways challenging deeply-embedded structures of injustice to cultivate a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.
Narrative Medicine, using the power of narrative to help patients discover their own stories of illness and create ones of healing that pull them forward toward recovery.

To learn more, and to submit a workshop proposal, please see our website’s conference page at http://www.tlanetwork.org/conference, where you can access our online workshop proposal form. For further information, please contact the TLAN Coordinators.

Callid & Kristina Keefe-Perry
TLA Network Coordinators
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
877-303-TLAN (8526)

[Please note that (a) presenters are not paid for their presentations and must register for, pay for, and attend the conference, (b) conference fees begin at $200 with reasonable room and board available, (c) a limited number of partial scholarships are also available, and (d) no individual should submit more than three proposals.]

Posted in Opportunities on December 07, 2009

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