Intersections (Dis)Ability and the Arts Speaker Series

Monday, November 18, 2019
7:00pm in Sandy and Marlene Insalaco Hall Rooms 218 (Huntzinger) and 219 (Alden)
 

MK Czerwiec, RN, MA, also known as the Comic Nurse, is a co-founder of the field graphic medicine, which explores the intersection of comics and medicine as a means of engaging with visual-narrative representations of health and illness, including healthcare partners, long-term illness, and disability.  She is a Senior Fellow at George Washington School of Nursing Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement and is the Artist in Residence at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Drawing on book "Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371", and her other work on graphic medicine and disability, MK will explore the intersection of art, medicine, and disability by taking the audience through a visual journey of how health communities and society have viewed disability and ways in which comics allow for individualization, community building, and empathetic approaches to health care.

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MK's talk was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

 

Friday, February 21, 2020
12:00pm in the Mary Kintz Bevevino Library McGowan Room

Kendra Preston Leonard, Ph.D.  is a musicologist and music theorist whose work focuses on women and music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; and music and screen history, particularly music and adaptations of Shakespeare. She is the author of five scholarly books and numerous book chapters and articles on Shakespeare and music, including Shakespeare, Madness and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations (Scarecrow Press, 2009). She is the founder and Executive Director of the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive, the founder and manager of SHEAF: Shakespeare in Early Film Database, and the Head of Scholarship and Research at the Institute for Composer Diversity (SUNY-Fredonia). In her presentation, Dr. Leonard will discuss how music functions as a signifier of mental health in films and stage performances of Shakespeare’s plays.

Dr. Leonard was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.