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Comics for better care

  • Comic book fair
  • June 13, 2025
  • 10am - 7pm
  • : Historic building of the Montpellier-Nîmes Faculty of Medicine

1ère RENCONTRE DE PATIENT.E.S Auteur.E.S DE BANDES DES DESSINÉES à la FACULTé DE MéDECINE DE MONTPELLIER

Three comic strip authors, Alice Baguet, Olivia Hagimont and Matthieu Blanchin, have agreed to come and talk and run workshops with students at the University of Montpellier (UM), at the invitation of the Faculty of Medicine's narrative medicine teachers and other teachers who regularly use comic strips as a teaching aid. Each of the three guests has published a comic strip referring to their own experience of care and their relationship with medicine, for different health problems, but with certain experiences in common, and which draws a universal outline to the carer/caregiver relationship.

This event is part of the teaching through comics project developed since 2023 at the Faculty of Medicine in partnership with the University's Service Commun de Documentation: 250 comics related to healthcare are now available in the Medical BUs in Nîmes and Montpellier.

What does it mean to be a caregiver or a patient? How do you care? How do patients see their carers? Through the accessible and original medium of comics, the public can discover how this "9th art", which carries the voice and experience of these patient-authors, has become a teaching aid for the Faculty, and contributes to the training of students, by reflecting on the meaning given to the act of caring.

➡️ Friday June 13, 2025, from 10am to 7pm, join Alice Baguet, Olivia Hagimont and Matthieu Blanchin for book signings and meetings at the stands of health students, university libraries and an all-day bookseller. To round off the day, an open debate will take place at the end of the afternoon in the anatomy amphitheatre of the Faculty of Medicine's historic building.

PROGRAM

- Comic book fair, meetings with authors, health students and teachers, book signings

- Discussion workshops: based on comic strips written by recognized comic strip authors, led by faculty members in the presence of the authors: 3 workshops, reserved for University health students, but also for any UM student interested in care, the care-giver-patient relationship, or issues relating to the body =>. REGISTRATION LINK

- Stands: University libraries (Service Commun de Documentation de l'UM), student health associations from the Montpellier and Nîmes Faculties of Medicine, the "En traits libres" bookshop (sales and book-signings), for meetings and discussions with the general public.

- Round table for the general public at 5:30 pm at the Theatrum Anatomicum on the relationship between caregiver and cared-for, experience as caregiver and cared-for, expression and testimony of experience, the place of literature as a whole and comics in particular in the teaching of medicine and care professions (narrative medicine), new forms of care teaching

- Co-hosted by authors and teachers, with the support of the Service Commun de Documentation and the Service Art et Culture of the University of Montpellier.