[Comicsstudiessociety] TODAY: NLM History Talk @2pm ET ~ Bayoumi on COVID Comics

[Mike Rhode]

You are cordially invited to the next NLM History Talk, “COVID Comics:
Decentering White Narratives in Graphic Medicine During the COVID-19
Pandemic,” to be held virtually tomorrow, Thursday, March 30, at 2pm ET:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=48675__;!!KGKeukY!wtjCDX2ge9jf254LCi7MNCrKaIw99t_n1gWZOg55UZ_zDAyGWobiLV96B_Hq6tMh_yj14kbeASq8q35J7Vq7mgQ4ohs$ .



Join us to welcome our speaker *Soha Bayoumi, PhD*, Senior Lecturer,
Medicine, Science, and the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University.



The Graphic Medicine Manifesto (2015) defines Graphic Medicine as “the
intersection of the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare.”
Since the field emerged over a decade ago as a legitimate area of scholarly
inquiry, artistic creativity, and interest for medical professionals,
patients, and caregivers alike, the NLM has engaged with it in different
ways, growing its collection of graphic narratives exploring experiences of
illness and organizing a traveling exhibition, “Graphic Medicine:
Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/graphicmedicine/index.html__;!!KGKeukY!wtjCDX2ge9jf254LCi7MNCrKaIw99t_n1gWZOg55UZ_zDAyGWobiLV96B_Hq6tMh_yj14kbeASq8q35J7Vq7ARazpNw$ >!” through
display panels and a variety of events to raise awareness about this
burgeoning field. Despite efforts to diversify the field of Graphic
Medicine, many have lamented the fact that it continued to center white
narratives. In this talk, Dr. Bayoumi explores the ways in which the
COVID-19 pandemic has changed this. She argues that the nature of the
pandemic, as a major global event affecting health all over the planet and
disproportionately impacting communities of color, meant that many more
BIPOC and other people of the global majority have produced diverse
narratives of COVID, graphic and otherwise. She claims that COVID’s
diversifying effect on Graphic Medicine is indelible and is paving the way
for the expression of many more diverse graphic narratives of health and
illness.



Participate in the Q&A via the live feedback interface of the videocast.



Visit *Circulating Now* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/__;!!KGKeukY!wtjCDX2ge9jf254LCi7MNCrKaIw99t_n1gWZOg55UZ_zDAyGWobiLV96B_Hq6tMh_yj14kbeASq8q35J7Vq7JTIA2og$ >, the blog of
the NLM History of Medicine Division, to read our interview
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2023/03/23/covid-comics-decentering-white-narratives-in-graphic-medicine/__;!!KGKeukY!wtjCDX2ge9jf254LCi7MNCrKaIw99t_n1gWZOg55UZ_zDAyGWobiLV96B_Hq6tMh_yj14kbeASq8q35J7Vq717HNbpY$ >
with Dr. *Bayoumi*.



This free program, like all NLM History Talks, will be live-streamed
globally, closed-captioned live, and subsequently archived in the NIH
Videocast archive of History of Medicine programs
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents?c=221__;!!KGKeukY!wtjCDX2ge9jf254LCi7MNCrKaIw99t_n1gWZOg55UZ_zDAyGWobiLV96B_Hq6tMh_yj14kbeASq8q35J7Vq7nlcPY3U$ >.



NLM History Talks promote awareness and use of NLM and related historical
collections for research, education, and public service in biomedicine, the
social sciences, and the humanities. The series also supports the
commitment of the NLM to recognize the diversity of its collections—which
span ten centuries, encompass a range of digital and physical formats, and
originate from nearly every part of the globe—and to foreground the voices
of people of color, women, and individuals of a variety of cultural and
disciplinary backgrounds who value these collections and use them to
advance their research, teaching, and learning. Learn more here
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/lectures/index.html__;!!KGKeukY!wtjCDX2ge9jf254LCi7MNCrKaIw99t_n1gWZOg55UZ_zDAyGWobiLV96B_Hq6tMh_yj14kbeASq8q35J7Vq7I7arMDA$ >.
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