How to Have Education in an Epidemic: The Histories and Presents of HIV/AIDS

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session engages the historic and contemporary impact of HIV/AIDS on education – broadly understood to include public education, public health, medical, and community-based education. Given the location of San Francisco as one of the epicenters of the epidemic in North America and year 2020, forty years after the first reported case of HIV/AIDS, it is an apt time to contemplate “how to have education in an epidemic” to explore how education responded (or failed to respond) to the epidemic “then” and how it is responding (or failing to respond) now amidst changing medical, pharmaceutical, cultural, and educational realities. This moderated discussion includes individuals from medicine, education, sociology, and social services to engaged the layered and complexities of HIV/AIDS as it is impacted by labor, sex, sexuality, race, gender, class, and geography.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Cleveland Hayes, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Participants

• Deborah Britzman, York University

• Edward Brockenbrough, University of Pennsylvania

• Lara Brooks, San Francisco AIDS Foundation

• Robert Grant, University of California - San Francisco

Discussant

• Adam Joseph Greteman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago