Humanities for Health: Graphic Public Health & the Environment

Robin McCrary PhD, Syracuse University Friday,
April 26th @ Noon, via Zoom & In-Person
at NHB 2049 in Urbana, IL

Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, April 26th at noon. Coffee and networking session to follow. For folks outside of the UIUC community, please join us via Zoom!

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.

About the Speaker

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.

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In-Person or Virtual?

The in-person RSVP option is open to the University of Illinois community (students, staff, and faculty). 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.

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About the Series

The HEROP Speaker Series connects scholars, experts, and innovative thinkers to discuss different conceptual, methodological, and technological facets of public health to better understand the social determinants of health, and how place may influence outcomes. The Healthy Regions & Policies (HEROP) 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.