Canning, R. (2014) An epidemic of unknowing: historicisation and forgetfulness in contemporary HIV/AIDS popular discourse. Invited Keynote presented to: The HIV Sector: Inter/connecting Communities and Narratives Seminar, Keele University, 11 February 2014. (Unpublished)
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| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Invited Keynote) |
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| 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, communities, cultures, epidemic |
| Subjects: |
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > P87 Communication. Mass media > P96.A39 AIDS (Disease) and mass media H Social Sciences > HM Sociology > HM1001 Social psychology > HM1106 Interpersonal relations. Social behavior > HM1136 Marginality, social R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC581 Immunologic diseases. Allergy > RC606.63 HIV infections |
| 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: | 11 February 2014 |
| Date Type: | Presentation |
| Event Title: | The HIV Sector: Inter/connecting Communities and Narratives Seminar |
| Event Dates: | 11 February 2014 |
| Event Location: | Keele University |
| Event Type: | Conference |
| Language: | English |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| Refereed: | No |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/7287 |
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