Speaker Series—Humanities for Health

Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, April 26th at 12 PM CDT. Coffee and networking session to follow.

The in-person option is open the University of Illinois community (students, staff, and faculty). Please use the RSVP option on the right for the in-person portion of the event. We will have lunch for all attendees who RSVP by Wednesday @10a before the event.

A virtual option via Zoom is available for the public. To register for the Zoom option, please access the following link: go.illinois.edu/HEROP-ZOOM-APR26.

This presentation focuses on how undergraduate health humanities and public health learners can pivot comics/comics scholarship, and tools from visual communication, toward understanding how environments influence human health. Viewing samples in comics forms, learners focus on (built and natural) environmental factors affecting human health throughout various communities/geographies, as well as explore how graphic texts may be used to benefit the stakeholders (such as healthcare providers, family members, and friends) involved in human illness and health circumstances connected to environment.

Robin McCrary, Ph.D. is the author (as Micah McCrary) of Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing (Bloomsbury) and Island in the City (University of Nebraska). His work also appears in the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Essay Daily, among other publications. A contributing editor at Assay, Dr. McCrary lives on Haudenosaunee homelands, where he teaches in the writing studies and health humanities programs at Syracuse University and researches public health humanities.

Healthy Regions & Policies Lab integrates innovative GIScience, public health, and statistical approaches to explore, understand, and promote healthy places. We’re experts in the spatial & social determinants of health. We're based out of the Dept of Geography & GIScience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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