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Cartooning for Peace and Health

Award-winning editorial cartoonists from around the world will gather at Emory University for "Cartooning for Peace and Health," a series of free public lectures and classroom discussions with an accompanying gallery exhibition.

Organized by Cartooning for Peace–America and sponsored by Emory's Halle Institute for Global Learning, the symposium will explore the role of the cartoonist in the public sphere, with a special focus on politics, peacemaking and health.

Participating cartoonists:

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Chaired by Plantu, whose cartoons have graced the front page of Le Monde since 1985, and political cartoonist Michel Kichka, the event features a diverse lineup of 18 cartoonists from the Americas and the Mediterranean, including The New Yorker's Liza Donnelly and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Mike Luckovich.

Event highlights:

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  • The symposium kicks off with a 'Creativity Conversation' hosted by University Vice President and Secretary Rosemary Magee at 2:00pm Wednesday, March 28 at the Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Rd. An opening reception and cartoon exhibition will take place that evening.
  • On Thursday, March 29, guests can meet the cartoonists at a cartooning demonstration and question-and-answer session at 10:00am at the Rollins School of Public Health.
  • Paul Root Wolpe, director of Emory's Center for Ethics, will lead a panel on how cartooning relates to bioethics and environmental health at 1:00pm in the same location.
  • Also on Thursday, a Spanish-speaking panel on cartooning and freedom of expression in Latin America moderated by Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat, director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Emory, will take place at 4:30pm in Few Hall, 4 Eagle Row on the Emory campus.
  • Cartoonists will participate in a series of provocative discussions covering everything from the Arab Spring to sex in political cartoons to freedom of speech on Friday, March 30 from 9 a.m. to 5:30pm at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Rd.

See the full schedule of each day's events for more details.

All public sessions are free, but online registration is required.

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