presentations

joint

• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / stef lenk / Nina Schmidt: Expanding the Canon of Graphic Medicine. Critical Visions of the Beginning and End of Life in Contemporary German-language Comics
  | Brighton, UK: 10th International Comics & Medicine Conference "Que(e)rying Graphic Medicine. Paradigms, Power, and Practice". July 2019.

Prof. Dr. Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff

• Verflochtenes Leben: Alter, Pflege & Sterben im Comic | Hannover: International Conference "Race, Class, Gender & Beyond – Intersektionale Ansätze der Comicforschung". October 2021.
• Demenz im Comic. Ein Dialog zwischen Medizin und Literaturwissenschaft (mit Martin Haupt)
   | Düsseldorf: Ringvorlesung Studium Universale. June 2021 (online).
• Der diagnostische Blick. Anorexie im Dialog zwischen Medizin und Comicforschung | Charité Berlin:
  Medizinisches Wahlpflichtfach "Der diagnostische Blick". February 2021 (online).
• Diversität in und mit Comics | Diskussionsforum "Comics-Exchange". October 2020 (online).
• Balancing neuroprosthetic regulation and individual agency. Written and drawn experiences of living with
  Parkinson’s disease and deep brain stimulation | Berlin: Workshop "Feeling Dis/Ease. New Perspectives on Modern History", Max Planck Institute for Human Development. January 2020.
• Krankheitserzählungen im Comic: Ästhetische und gesellschaftspolitische Aspekte der "Graphic Medicine"
  | Wien, AT: International Conference "Medical Humanities: Interaction between Medicine and the Art". October 2019.
• Literatur X Wissenschaft: Transplantationen der Literatur | Lettrétage Berlin: Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff im Gespräch mit der Autorin Sabine Gruber, Moderation Caroline Welsh. November 2018. 
• Screen Memories in Literary and Graphic Dementia Narratives | Berlin: PathoGraphics Workshop  “Dementia, Violence, and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Comics”. September 2018.
• Telling and Showing Dis/Continuities: Comics on Dementia | Cologne: 13th Annual Conference of the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor) "Spaces Between - Gender, Diversity and Identity in Comics". September 2018.
• Körperliche Grenzerfahrungen und die Konstruktion „künstlicher Natürlichkeit“ in literarischen Texten zu Parkinson und Tiefenhirnstimulation | Berlin: International Workshop "Körperpoetiken – Korporealitäten - Biopolitik". Freie Universität Berlin. July 2018.
• Krankheitserzählungen im Comic: Ästhetische und gesellschaftspolitische Aspekte der "Graphic Medicine" | Cologne: Ringvorlesung "Aktuelle Perspektiven der Comicforschung". Universität zu Köln, Institut für Medienkultur und Theater. June 2018.
• Prothetik und Autonomie. Erzählungen vom Leben mit Parkinson und Tiefenhirnstimulation | Berlin: "Körpererzählungen”. 5. Berliner Symposium zur Narrativen Medizin. July 2017.
• Staging Contagion | Dundee, UK: 7th International Comics & Medicine Conference “Stages and Pages”. July 2016.
• with Susan Merrill Squier: On and Off: Rupture, Cohesion, and the ‘Narrative Thread’ in Graphic and Literary Memoirs of Neurodegenerative Diseases | Amsterdam, NL: Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. June 2016.
• Graphic Medicine and Literary Pathographies | Riverside, USA: 6th International Comics & Medicine Conference “Spaces of Care”. July 2015.

Prof. Susan Merrill Squier, PhD

• The Spaces Between: Negotiating Gender and Race in Transdisciplinary Comics Collaborations | Cologne: 13th Annual Conference of the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor) "Spaces Between - Gender, Diversity and Identity in Comics". September 2018.
• Epigenetics: Innovation of Memory? Life Science Paradigsm as Challenge and Opportunity for Historians | Berlin: Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung | "Epigenetics and the Epigenetic Landscape in Science and Culture". June 2018.
• Scaling Graphic Medicine: How we collaborate (keynote speaker) | White River Junction, Vermont: 9th International Graphic Medicine Conference: “Comics and Medicine: The Ways we Work”. August 2018.
• (podcast) A Look at Graphic Medicine (with Kathleen Hughes and Ellen Forney) | USA: Public Libraries Association. March 2018.
• Parasites!: A Graphic Exploration of the Problem of Drug Development for Tropical Diseases | Tempe, USA: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. November 2017.
• Natasha Myers’s Folding Into Being and Graphic Medicine | Tempe, USA: SLSA Book panel presentation, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. November 2017.
• Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as a Mode of Caring | Leeds, UK: Oakley Memorial Lecture, Leeds University Program in Medical Humanities. October 2017.
• The Invisible War: Scaling a Graphic PathoGeography | Seattle, USA: Comics and Medicine Conference "Access Points". July 2017.
• Diary Comics, and the Diary in the Comic | Dundee, UK: workshop (with MK Czerwiec and Tahneer Oksman). Comics and Medicine Conference "Stages and Pages". July 2016.
• Graphic Medicine | Madison, USA: J.C. and Ruth Halls Visiting Scholar Lecture, The University of Wisconsin, Madison. September 2016.
• Are We Legitimating Comics to Death? | Panel Discussion. Berlin: Conference “Seriality: The many lives of the field that isn’t one”. June 2016.
• with Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff: On and Off: Rupture, Cohesion, and the ‘Narrative Thread’ in Graphic and Literary Memoirs of Neurodegenerative Diseases | Amsterdam, NL: Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. June 2016.
• Thinking with Chickens, in Science, Art, and Culture | New York, USA: Keynote presentation at the Stone Barnes Center for Food and Agriculture. March 2016.
• Medical Imaging Across Art and Science | Paris, France: Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris, CUNP, Fondation Maison des Sciences de L'Homme. February, 2016.

Dr. Nina Schmidt

• "Die Breitbeinigen. Aufklärungsmodi und Körperpolitiken in deutschsprachigen feministischen Comic". In: Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Nina Schmidt (eds.): CLOSURE. Kieler e-journal für Comicforschung # 7.5 (2021): 119–145.
• Beyond the Personal: The Social Critique of German Graphic Medicine | Birmingham: 30th WiGS anniversary conference. Aston University. November 2018.
  In Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 56.3/4 (2020): 368-388
• German Graphic Medicine Voicing Systemic Critique: the Relation of Work, Illness and Dying in Elke R. Steiner’s Risiken und Nebenwirkungen (2010) and Marijpol’s Eremit (2013) | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 42nd GSA Annual Conference, September 2018.
• Over/writing the Father? Crossing Dementia and the National Socialist Past in Tilman Jens’s Demenz (2009) | Berlin: International Workshop “Dementia, Violence, and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Comics”. Freie Universität Berlin. September 2018.
• Literarische Darstellungen der Kommunikation über Krankheit – literarische Darstellungen als Kommunikation von Krankheit | Atlanta, USA: 41st GSA Annual Conference (German Studies Association), “German Life Writing” Seminar. October 2017.
• Sharing Memories of Loss: the Role of Photographs in Graphic Narratives of Bereavement | Ghent, Belgium: NNCORE Conference “Comics and Memory”. April 2017.
• Self-reflexive Uses of Photography in Graphic Narratives Relating Dying and Bereavement | Cologne: 3. Workshop der AG Comicforschung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft “Formen der Selbstreflexivität im Medium Comic”. March 2017.
• Voicing the Dying Self – Anticipating the ‘After-image’: Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Cancer Diary Arbeit und Struktur (2010-2013) | Aberystwyth, UK: 28th WiGS Conference (Women in German Studies) | November 2016.
• Between Visibility and Vulnerability – Representations of Illness in Comics and Literature Today, and their Challenge to the Reader | Leeds, UK: Comics Forum 2016 “Genre: A Conference on Comics”. November 2016.
• How to Read PathoGraphics, or: Ways of Looking | Berlin: Workshop “Pathography and Graphic Medicine: The Genres of PathoGraphics”. October 2016.

stef lenk

• (speaker | live-stream webinar) Creative Research in Graphic Medicine | part of the Creative Research: Art, Health and Technology post-graduate program organised by Diogo Marques | Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto (PT) | July 2020
• (workshop leader) A Language of Images: Examining the Translation of Text to Comic in an Adaptation of Kafka | part of the seminar Kafkas Erzählungen: Texte und Comicadaptionen taught by Prof. Dr. Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Anna Beckmann | Freie Universität. February 2019.
• Sisyphus in graphic narrative and the academy: building bridges between practise and theory in artistic research | Drawing Yourself In and Out of It: Amsterdam Comics 2nd International Conference | Amsterdam, Netherlands | November 2018.
• (poster presentation) | Constructing Space, Building Place: Topographies of Comics and Visual Narration (Summer School, University of Cologne). September 2018.
• Illustrating process and product in graphic narratives | White River Junction, Vermont: 9th International Graphic Medicine Conference: “Comics and Medicine: The Ways we Work”. August 2018.
• An Alphabet of Peripatetic Lines: On Reading (and 'Writing') Wordless Stories | sketching in practice symposium (Simon Fraser University), Vancouver, Canada. June, 2017.
• (ibid) Graphic Medicine: 8th International Comics & Medicine Conference “Access Points”, Seattle, USA. June 2017.
• Drawing Outside the Lines. Pathography Beyond the Visible Boundaries in Mental Illness | Conference “The Anatomy of the Image. Perspectives on the (Bio)Medical Body in Science, Literature, Culture and Politics, Melbourne, Australia. February, 2017.
• (workshop leader) | Understanding wordless comics | "Transitions 7: New Directions in Comic Studies”, Birkbeck College. London, UK. November 2016.
• Drawing Outside the Lines: Pathography beyond the Visible Boundaries in Mental Illness | Berlin: Workshop “Pathography and Graphic Medicine: The Genres of PathoGraphics”. October 2016.

publications

joint

• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Nina Schmidt / Sue Vice (eds.): The Politics of Dementia. Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film and Graphic Narratives. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022, print and open access:
• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Nina Schmidt (eds.): Körperbilder im Comic: Konstruktion und Subversion. CLOSURE. Kieler e-journal für Comicforschung, special issue # 7.5. (07/2021).
• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Nina Schmidt: "Constructions and Subversions of the Body in Comics – About this Issue". In: Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Nina Schmidt (eds.): CLOSURE. Kieler e-journal für Comicforschung # 7.5 (2021): 16-30.
• Susan Merrill Squier / Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff (eds.): PathoGraphics. Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020.
• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Uta Kornmeier / stef lenk / Nina Schmidt / Susan Merrill Squier: SICK! Kranksein im Comic / Reclaiming illness through comics (Ausstellungskatalog / Exhibition catalogue). October 2017.

Prof. Dr. Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff

• "Screen Memories in Literary and Graphic Dementia Narratives: Irene Dische's "The Doctor Needs a Home" and Stuart Campbell's "These Memories Won't Last"". In: Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Nina Schmidt/ Sue Vice (eds.): The Politics of Dementia. Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film and Graphic Narratives. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2022: 135-149
• (with Nina Schmidt and Sue Vice): "Refracting History, Trauma and the Generations through the Prism of Dementia". In: Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Nina Schmidt / Sue Vice (eds.): The Politics of Dementia. Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film and Graphic Narratives. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2022: 1-14
• "Entfaltungen: Alternde Körper im Comic". In: Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Nina Schmidt (eds.): CLOSURE. Kieler e-journal für Comicforschung # 7.5 (2021): 163–187.
• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff: „Krankheitserzählungen im Comic: Ästhetische und gesellschaftspolitische Aspekte im Umfeld der Graphic Medicine“. In: Stephan Packard / Veronique Sina (Hrsg.): Aktuelle Perspektiven der Comicforschung. Berlin: Springer, 2020 (forthcoming).
• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff: "Illness narratives in comics: using graphic medicine in the medical humanities." In: Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 132 (2020), Themenheft “Interactions between Medicine and the Arts“, 10. August 2020, S. 44-47.
• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff: “The Tightrope to Equilibrium. Parkinson’s disease in Literature and Comics”. In: Susan Merrill Squier / Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff (eds.): PathoGraphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020.
• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff: "Narrating the Lived Reality of Illness in Comics and Literature. Research by the PathoGraphics Team at Freie Universität Berlin". DIEGESIS. Interdisciplinary E‑Journal for Narrative Research / Interdisziplinäres E‑Journal für Erzählforschung 8.1 (2019), Themenheft "Wirklichkeit erzählen im Comic / Narrating Reality in Comics".
• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff: „Zitat, Schnitt, Naht. Ästhetische Strategien der Transplantation in David Wagners Roman Leben und Katharina Greves Comic Patchwork. Frau Doktor Waldbeck näht sich eine Familie.“ In: Ottmar Ette / Uwe Wirth (Hrsg.): Kulturwissenschaftliche Konzepte der Transplantation. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter 2019, S. 147-165.
• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff: “Körperliche Grenzerfahrungen und 'künstliche Natürlichkeit' in literarischen Texten zu Parkinson und tiefer Hirnstimulation" (Helmut Dubiel, Ute Schmidt, Richard Wagner).“ Zeitschrift für Germanistik 3 (2018) (2018): 486-501.

Prof. Susan Merrill Squier, PhD

• Susan Merrill Squier: “Scaling Graphic Medicine: The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness Narrative”. In: Susan Merrill Squier / Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff (eds.): PathoGraphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020.
• Susan Merrill Squier: “Parasites! Graphic Exploration of Tropical Disease Drug Development”. AMA Journal of Ethics: Illuminating the art of medicine 20.2 (2018): 167-175.
• Susan Merrill Squier: Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.
• Susan Merrill Squier (with Michael Green): “The Best of Graphic Medicine”. JAMA 318.23 (2017): 2280-2281.
• Susan Merrill Squier: “Extreme Literature, Science, and the Arts: A Comic Proposal for our Fields”. Journal of Literature and Science 10.1 (2017): 52-57.
• Susan Merrill Squier (with Krista Quesenberry): “Life Writing and Graphic Narratives”. Life Writing 13.1 (2016): 63-85.

Dr. Nina Schmidt

• Nina Schmidt, ‘Beyond the Personal: The Systemic Critique of German Graphic Medicine’. In Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 56.3/4 (2020): 368-388.
• Nina Schmidt: “Ways of Looking: Reading PathoGraphics”. In: Susan Merrill Squier / Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff (eds.): PathoGraphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020.
• Nina Schmidt: The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018.
• Nina Schmidt: “Autobiographische Krankheitserzählungen in der Gegenwartsliteratur: Siri Hustvedt, Paul Kalanithi, Verena Stefan”. In Diegesis – Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung 6.2 (2017): 138-159.
• Nina Schmidt: Review of Inscription and Rebellion: Illness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature by Sonja E. Klocke. In The Modern Language Review 112.3 (2017): 748-750.

stef lenk

• (online) review of Sterben ist echt das Letzte by Eva Müller |  graphicmedicine.org
• (online) review of Der Sommer Ihres Lebens by Thomas von Steinaecker, illustrated by Barbara Yelin | graphicmedicine.org
• stef lenk: (with Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Susan Squier): “Interview with stef lenk on The Quickening”. In: Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Susan Merrill Squier (eds.) PathoGraphics. Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020.
• stef lenk: "The Quickening: Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxiety" in: The Anatomy of the Image. Netherlands: Brill Clio Medica series (forthcoming)

"Screen Memories in Literary and Graphic Dementia Narratives: Irene Dische’s “The Doctor Needs a Home” and Stuart Campbell’s “These Memories Won’t Last”". In: Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff / Nina Schmidt / Sue Vice (eds.): The Politics of Dementia. Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film and Graphic Narratives. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2022: 135-149.