In conjunction with the Popular Culture Association (PCA) holding their 2021 conference in Boston, contributors and attendees of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Virtual Summit are proposing a slate of programming that now is welcoming additional participants. 

Two complete panels of 3-5 participants will be offering “Collaborating on and Creating Graphic Medicine” and “New England Graphic Medicine” line-ups, respectively. Potential speakers and topics currently include:

Collaborating on and Creating Graphic Medicine

• Sarah Mausner (Teen Health Comics)
• Janine Georg (endometriosis)
• Maria Photinakis (mental illness and climate anxiety)

 New England Graphic Medicine

• Sarah Levin-Lederer
• A. David Lewis
• Matthew Noe

Additional topics may include illness is various comics titles, local GM, comics in hospitals, the business of GM, canonicity, etc.

Also, a round-table discussion of up to 5 individuals on “GM’s Marginalized Voices” will be planned to include the following initial panelists

• Ned Bartlett
• Cathy Leamy
• Rachel Walden

In short, we welcome additional participants for any of these sessions. Please send a short bio, your C.V., and your proposed contribution to one of these three events to a.lewis@mcphs.edu by September 31, 2020. Additional information on PCA 2021 can be found on the organization’s website at https://pcaaca.org/conference/submitting-paper-proposal-pca-conference