Session Details

Saturday, 29 December

608. HIV/AIDS, Disability, and Culture

7:15–8:30 p.m., Truffles, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Division on Disability Studies

Presiding: Kristen C. Harmon, Gallaudet Univ.

1. “What Do You Want from Me? The Experience of Derek Jarman’s Blue,” Thomas H. Ratekin, Barnard Coll.

2. “Deadlier than AIDS? Medicine, Magic, and HIV in Nigerian Video Films,” Stefan Sereda, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.

3. “AIDS and Disability: A Cultural Synecdoche,” Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent Univ.

4. “Blood Is No Longer Life: AIDS, Loss, and Mourning as Disability in Kenny Fries’s Poetry,” Matthew Rohweder, Simon Fraser Univ.

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