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The Times of AIDS Cultural Production: Film Screening and Conversation with Dr. Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr

When	Thursday, Apr 4, 2024, 4 – 5 p.m.
Event interval	Single day event
Campus location	Allen Library (ALB)
Campus room	Petersen Room
Accessibility Contact	hcdehelp@uw.edu
Event Types	Lectures/Seminars, Screenings
Event sponsors	The program is sponsored as part of a workshop on The Archive of AIDS that is part of the larger series for Knowledge of AIDS – Scholarly Networking Project on Social Studies of HIV/AIDS in North America. For more information, visit: knowledgeofaids.net.

Description	The Times of AIDS Cultural Production: Film Screening and Conversation Join authors Dr. Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore (ted) Kerr as they discuss the role of time and cultural production amid the ongoing HIV response as explored in their book We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (2022, Duke University Press). The event will include a screening of I Want to Leave a Legacy: The video/activism of Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski (20:41, Juanita Szczepanski and Alexandra Juhasz, 2023). Together Juhasz and Kerr will dive into the many values of memorial, and uses of their own and uses of their own “times of AIDS, ” as method to witness, honor, make use of, and learn from the life and times of noted Black, disabled, and feminist AIDS video activist, Juanita M. Szczepanski.

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