[Discussion] AIDS in Culture

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*AIDS in Culture II, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December 2005*
*Location:* 	Mexico
<http://www.h-net.org/announce/geography.cgi?geography=Mexico>
*Call for Papers Deadline:* 	2005-06-15

	

	

AIDS in Culture is an annual conference organised by Enkidu Magazine in
Mexico City in cooperation with CENSIDA the national Mexican
AIDS-organisation. In 2004 the conference was organised in CENADEH, the
National Center for Human Rights in Mexico City. In 2005 the conference
will be held in Puerto Vallarta on the Mexican Pacific Coast.

AIDS in Culture seeks to examine issues relating to AIDS in culture
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 and all related
      disciplines. How do we theorize and analyze experiences and the
      meaning of illness?

    * AIDS and psychosocial affects and effects. Cultures of silence.

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 October 2004. 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 be published in book form.

Abstracts are to be submitted by the *15th of June 2005*, along with the
presenter's name, address, telephone, email, and institutional
affiliation. All correspondence for this conference will be conducted
via email. You will be notified by the 25th of August 2005 whether your
proposal has been accepted or rejected. Full conference papers should be
submitted by the 1st of November 2005. Abstracts and summaries of the
conference papers will be made available at the conference web page from
November 2005:

AIDS in Culture Homepage with more information can be found at the
following web address.
For further information, please contact the organising comitee at the
e-mail address shown below.

	Juan Escutia 23 BIS, Ninos Heroes,
Del.: Juarez
03440 Mexico DF
[+ 52] (55) 91 80 12 40

Email: info@enkidumagazine.com <mailto:info@enkidumagazine.com>
Visit the website at
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/art/2004/030804/E_024_030804.htm