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CFP: AIDS in Culture II: Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS
Deadline: 15th of September 2005
AIDS in Culture is an annual conference organised by Enkidu Magazine
in Mexico City in cooperation with CENSIDA (the national Mexican AIDS-
organisation), CONAPRED (the national Mexican Anti-Discrimination
Council) and ADETEA (the Association of Anthropology Students at the
Autonomous University of the State of Mexico in Toluca).
In 2004 the conference was held in Mexico City. This year, the
conference will take place in Puerto Vallarta on the Mexican Pacific
Coast.
AIDS in Culture seeks to examine cultural responses to Aids across a
wide range of perspectives. The conference aims at bringing together
people working in all relevant disciplines, activists, professionals,
academics and promoting innovative multidisciplinary and
multicultural exchange and dialogue.
The conference will focus on a number of core themes: Papers are
welcomed on virtually all topics and themes, independently of time,
period and space, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. Also
papers of comparative phenomena are welcome.
Among the themes of interest are the following:
- AIDS and Cultural Texts: Power and Representation. Representations
of AIDS in art, movies, music, poetry, religion and literature from
the 1980s until today. How are testimonial narratives mediated and
represented?
- Silences and taboos in discourses on HIV/AIDS.
- Aesthetic responses to the challenge. Rituals, customs, and
fetishism.
- Cultural practices that influence the spread of HIV/AIDS
- AIDS and the collective and individual identities: Race, Class,
Gender etc
- AIDS and Politics, Lobbying and Activism: Power, Representation and
Activism. Constructions and reconstructions of AIDS in political and
faith and ideology based discourse, legal issues and policy making
throughout the world. Who has the authority to speak and who is
silenced?
- AIDS and theory: Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Religious
Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Literary Studies and all
related disciplines. How do we theorize and analyze experiences and
the meaning of illness?
- The 'significance' of AIDS for individuals and communities; the
cultural factors influencing our perceptions of health and illness
experiences.
- AIDS and psychosocial affects and effects. Cultures of silence.
- Indigenous knowledge and responses to AIDS
- Stories and Histories about AIDS
- AIDS and Oral History
Papers will be considered on related themes and topics from a wide
range of perspectives. 500 word abstracts should be submitted to the
organising comitee in English, Spanish, German or French as e-mail
attachment by 15th of September 2005. The conference languages will
be English and Spanish.
Papers should be of approximately 30 minutes duration (circa 8 - 10
pages). Other forms of presentation, for instance workshops, panel
debates and poster sessions will be considered on request.
Graduate and postgraduate students are encouraged to attend and
present papers. Selected papers from the conference will also this
year be published in book form.
Abstracts are to be submitted by the 15th of September 2005, along
with the presenter's name, address, telephone, email, and
institutional affiliation. All correspondence for this conference
will be conducted via email.
Participants will be notified by the 25th of September 2005 whether
their proposal has been accepted or rejected.
Interpretations of the conference theme ranging from the predictable
to the surprising are encouraged.
Conference information: [log in to unmask]
Conference website:
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/aidsinculture.htm
Centro Cultural Enkidu
Norte 1-A 4822,
Delegación Gustavo A. Madero,
Col. Maximino Avila Camacho,
07380 Ciudad de México, México
[+52] (55) 55 87 60 71
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