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 (Unpublished)
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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
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, R.
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
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
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