Speaking Through Silence: A Public Conference on HIV/AIDS Histories

Time: March 18, 2022, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Location: Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., Rochester, NY

This conference, in conjunction with the Memorial Art Gallery’s exhibition, Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster (March 6 – June 19), features scholars of HIV/AIDS history alongside medical practitioners and activists from the Central New York region sharing their knowledge and experience of HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, care, representation, and memory.

• Keynote by University of Illinois at Chicago historian Jennie Brier, “I’m Still Surviving: Towards a Women’s History of HIV/AIDS in the United States.”
• Planned panels include “HIV in Black and Brown Communities: What’s Going On?;” “HIV at the Intersection of Art and Activism;” and “Public Health Harm Reduction: Lessons from the HIV/AIDS Epidemic.”
• Presentations by Jessica Lacher-Feldman, curator of the University of Rochester AIDS Education Poster Collection and Donald Albrecht, curator of Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster.
• Tour the exhibition, with panelists Patricia Coury-Doniger, Gary English, Ted Kerr, Mical Raz, Benita Roth, Diane Morse, Alexis Pleus, Jeffery McCune and Laura Stamm.

The conference is free and open to the public (registration required), organized by the HIV/AIDS Activism and Public Health (HS9) Working Group with "Signature Event" support from the CNY Humanities Corridor.

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