BRIDGING THE DIVIDE:
SAW + Graphic Medicine ONLINE Conference
July 18-20, 2025
SAW - Graphic Medicine ONLINE Conference July 2025
July 18 - 20, 2025
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Saturday, July 19:
11 am ET - 12:30 pm ET: "The Significance of Evidence"Saturday, July 19:
5 pm ET - 6:30 pm ET: "The Craft and Aesthetics of Graphic Medicine"Sunday, July 20:
11 am ET: "Bees Over the Berlin Wall "Sunday, July 20:
1 pm ET: "What is Next for Graphic Medicine?"
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Saturday, July 19, 9 am ET - 10:30 ET: Young in Iran
Saturday, July 19, 3 pm ET - 4:30 pm ET: Comics Reading
Sunday, July 20, 9 am ET - 10:30 am ET: Comics Reading
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Friday, July 18, 7 pm ET - FREE
Saturday, July 19, 1 pm ET - 2:30 pm ET
Sunday, July 20, 3 pm ET - 4:30 pm ET
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Saturday, July 19, 9 pm ET - 10:30 pm ET
Comics Readings
We will be hosting 4 live 60 minute comics readings, including one entirely from Iran. Have a Graphic Medicine story you can share in 5-7 minutes ? Submit it here! Limited slots available but we’ll try our best.
Comics workshops
We will be hosting 3 live comics workshops by SAW Graphic Medicine leaders!
Workshop 1: Friday, July 18
Friday Night Comics 7 pm EDT / 4 PM PDT
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A simple diary comics workshop focusing on health and mental health with two fabulous practitioners of daily comics drawing, Emily Joy Mehr and J.D. Lunt.
Workshop 3: RESEARCH for graphic medicine
Sunday, 3 pm EDT / 12 AM PDT
With Maureen Burdock
What kind of research is involved in making a work of graphic medicine? How do you find the right sources? How do you know when you’ve gone deep enough, or when have you gone too deep? What is the right amount of research for you? Queen of Snails memoirist Maureen Burdock will lead you through the visual, social, scientific and other kinds of research you might find yourself needing to do.
Discussion / Roundtables
These roundtables will bring 5-6 speakers together to present and join a 20 minute discussion. Visuals encouraged.
Session 1: The Significance of Evidence
What value does evidence have? When have we had not enough or the wrong evidence? How can we get better? Have some stories or ideas related to this topic? Submit a proposal for a 5 minute presentation and join our roundtable Q+A.
Session 2: The Craft and Aesthetics of Graphic Medicine
Let’s talk about the craft of Graphic Medicine. What does drawing matter? Are “good” drawings better than “not good”? What is the value of authenticity? Does collage count? What are we looking for as readers? Submit a proposal for a 5 minute presentation and join our roundtable Q+A.
Session 3: "Bees Over the Berlin Wall " ie - how do we cross borders to assist life?
Maureen Burdock tells us that during the time of the Berlin Wall, bees were bred to travel from one side to the other to pollinate their flowers. How do WE cross borders to keep life alive? What bridges have we built or needed built or seen built? What currents have we had to ride to get the care we needed? Submit a proposal for a 5 minute presentation and join our roundtable Q+A.
Session 4: What’s Next for Graphic Medicine?
“Graphic Medicine” was coined in 2007 and the Graphic Medicine Manifesto written in 2015. In 10 years we have seen the field explode with readers, practitioners, and scholars alike. What has changed in those 10 years? What do we expect to be changing? What have we seen and what would we like to see? Submit a proposal for a 5 minute presentation and join our roundtable Q+A.
The Graphic Medicine Awards!
Happening Saturday July 19, 9pm Eastern. 6 pm Pacific.
We don’t know much about these yet but we will soon!
