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Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics Opening Thursday, September 22, 2022
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<div class="gmail-m-hero__title"><h1>Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics Opening</h1>
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<span class="gmail-m-hero__meta-content">Thursday, September 22, 2022<br>4 PM ET<br></span>
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<span class="gmail-m-hero__meta-content">Online on Zoom</span></li><li><span class="gmail-m-hero__meta-content"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-drawing-us-together-opening-discussion-virtual__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsPyz9avpg$">https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-drawing-us-together-opening-discussion-virtual</a></span></li></ul>
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<p>In this opening discussion for the exhibition <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-drawing-us-together-exhibition__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsPnAP7DSA$" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics</em></a><em>,</em>
cartoonists and scholars Hillary Chute, Joel Christian Gill, and James
Sturm will discuss comics and their ability to tell stories across time,
experience, and identity.</p><p>The global pandemic and recent
movements for racial justice have tested public and private institutions
in this country; our sense of collective wellbeing; and familial,
social, and civic lives. <em>Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics</em>
explores these challenges and the interconnectedness of contemporary
public life and public health through the medium of comics. Authors and
artists share a range of stories across time, experience, and identity
through the interplay among images and words.</p>
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<h2>Register</h2><p>Free and open to the public.</p><p>To view this event online, individuals will need to <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UgFt_NPfS6q2f1ktWaO3-g__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsP878YI5s$" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">register via Zoom</a>.</p><p>For instructions on how to join online, see the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/events-and-exhibitions/how-attend-radcliffe-event-zoom__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsPS9BaF6o$" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Attend a Radcliffe Event on Zoom</a> webpage.</p><p>After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing a link and password for this meeting.<em><br><br>Live closed captioning will be available for the webinar.</em></p>
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<h2>Speakers</h2><p><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/hillary-chute/__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsPOt3y1DE$" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Hillary Chute</strong></a>
is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern
University. She is the author or editor of six books, including <em>Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere</em> (Harper, 2017), <em>Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form</em> (Belknap Press, 2016), <em>Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists</em> (University of Chicago Press, 2014), and <em>Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics</em> (Columbia University Press, 2010). She has written for venues including <em>Artforum</em>, <em>Bookforum</em>, the <em>Village Voice</em>, and the <em>New York Review of Books</em>. Her collection <em>Maus Now: Selected Writing</em> is forthcoming from Pantheon in 2022. She is a comics and graphic novels columnist for the <em>New York Times Book Review</em>.</p><p><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bu.edu/cfa/profile/joel-christian-gill/__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsP25fADWU$" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Joel Christian Gill</strong></a>
is a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance
of sharing stories. He is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s
Master of Fine Arts in Visual Narrative and the author of the acclaimed
memoir <em>Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence</em>, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by the<em> New York Times</em> and for which Gill was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. He wrote the words and drew the pictures for <em>Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride</em> and the award-winning graphic novel series <em>Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History</em>, as well as three volumes of <em>Tales of The Talented Tenth</em>,
which tell the stories of Bass Reeves, Bessie Stringfield, and Robert
Smalls. He is currently at work on the graphic novel of Ibram X. Kendi’s
National Book Award-winning <em>Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America</em> (Ten Speed Press, 2023), and CNN journalist Don Lemon’s Young Adult graphic memoir <em>Fitting In </em>(Penguin Random House, 2024).<br></p><p><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cartoonstudies.org/james-sturm/__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsPNo-p1bg$" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>James Sturm</strong></a> is the cofounder and director of the Center for Cartoon Studies. He is editor of CCS’s <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cartoonstudies.org/css-studio/cartooningprojects/__;!!KGKeukY!2zb7pPZgqGwp2o3Pgi_GB7g-KvuCn2ieWcxDYaUMb6o_eegwIWUW3GpoWK0d3saa_xt8JnlAfwhvfxkhHEsPJwXO_AQ$" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">graphic guide series</a>, and his writings and illustrations have appeared in the<em> Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, </em>the<em> Paris Review, </em>the<em> Onion, </em>the<em> New York Times</em>, and the cover of the<em> New Yorker</em>. His comics address issues of faith, race, and American identity. His graphic novel <em>Off Season</em>
(Drawn and Quarterly, 2019) explores the intersection of the personal
and political against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election.
Sturm was a 2020–2021 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow and a 2008 and
2015 MacDowell Colony fellow.</p>
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