51.033 - HIV/AIDS in 21st Century Education and Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Scholars in this symposium address evolving discourses, representations, and understandings of HIV/AIDS in the 21st century on a global scale. Emerging from specific national contexts – Iceland, Finland, South Africa, and the United States – the papers address a range of issues including HIV criminalization, the role of the arts in historicizing HIV/AIDS, evolving approaches to health education and the politics of childhood. Across these issues, the scholars illustrate both shared challenges and differences encountered within different national histories, politics, and educational dynamics. While HIV/AIDS has become less visible within education beyond prevention, this symposium seeks to reimagine and critically address HIV/AIDS in new and complex ways for our current contexts.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry and Transformations

Cosponsor

• SIG-Queer Studies

Chair

• Deborah P. Britzman, York University

Papers

• Queer Liaisons: Challenging Carceral Logics in HIV Education - Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University

• The Subjects of AIDS: A History of AIDS in the 21st Century - Adam Joseph Greteman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

• "Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves": Educational Discourses on AIDS/HIV in the Nordic Countries - Jon Ingvar Kjaran, University of Iceland; Brynja Elisabeth Halldórsdóttir Gudjonsson, University of Iceland; Jukka Lehtonen, University of Helsinki

• Setting Queer Theory Loose: Addressing Childhood Sexual Innocence in the Age of AIDS - Deevia Bhana, University of KwaZulu-Natal