Please join the Theorizing Colloquium series in welcoming Dr. Leah Misemer, Assistant Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Intersections of Humanities and STEM: The Graphic Medicine Lab
The term “graphic medicine” refers to the study and practice of analyzing and creating comics for healthcare settings. The name, combining “graphic” which suggests visual art and “medicine,” which suggests science-informed clinical practice, captures the interdisciplinary nature of the field, where doctors, artists, humanities researchers, and others collaborate and share knowledge. Therefore, the Graphic Medicine Lab (GML) is a germane space to explore how STEM-oriented heuristics and epistemologies might intersect with humanistic research and practice. This presentation details the many ways the activities of the GML explore these intersections, from creating comics for local partners to building a Mental Health Comics Database, and finally, to researching how the processes of user testing–more common in the fields of engineering and computer science–might inform graphic medicine both in the future work of the lab and elsewhere. While I present a specific case study, participants are encouraged to think through how STEM-informed structures and ways of thinking inform or might inform their own work.
This event is cosponsored by
Cinema and Media Studies Department and
ComicsLab, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
Location: Cherpack Seminar Room, room 543, Williams Hall