The Epidemic of unknowing: knowledge and historicisation in Western contemporary HIV/AIDS discourses

Canning, R. (2013) The Epidemic of unknowing: knowledge and historicisation in Western contemporary HIV/AIDS discourses. Panel Presentation presented to: 2nd International Conference of the Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV (ASSHH): Knowing Practices, Paris, 07-10 July 2013. (Unpublished)

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Panel Presentation)
Abstract:	This paper draws on my fifteen-year experience of teaching MA and BA modules at several British universities on AIDS-related literature, film, drama and culture, as well as bringing the subject into school classrooms (of English schoolchildren, aged 16-18), as part of university outreach programmes. It asks how the several distinct phases in Western understandings of the HIV/AIDS syndrome and epidemic – biomedically, socially and politically - have impacted on readers’ and audience members’ interpretation of the large body of literature and culture that has addressed the subject, focusing in particular upon representations in popular cultural forms such as film, television drama and theatre.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	HIV, AIDS, epidemic, humanities, culture
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN56 Themes and subjects in literature > PN56.H57 Homosexuality P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > P87 Communication. Mass media > P96.A39 AIDS (Disease) and mass media
Creators:	Canning, Richard
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Date:	10 July 2013
Date Type:	Presentation
Event Title:	2nd International Conference of the Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV (ASSHH): Knowing Practices
Event Dates:	07-10 July 2013
Event Location:	Paris
Event Type:	Conference
Language:	English
Status:	Unpublished
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/7286

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