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Please join us for an ongoing series of events titled "Looking At AIDS: 30 Years On" organized by the Humanities Project
Wed, Jan 25, 6:00 pm: screening of the John Greyson films "The World is Sick"; "The Pink Pimpernel"; and "The Ads Epidemic": Plutzik Room, Rare Books Room of Rush Rhees
Thu, Jan 26, 5:30 pm: Owens Lecture by Cindy Patton: Hawkins-Carlson Room
"Buggering John Greyson: Works on AIDS, Sex, and Politics from the 1980s"
Cindy Patton examines John Greyson's early film work documenting AIDS activism and engaging with debates about representations of safe sex. Patton juxtaposes Greyson's agitation-propaganda strategy of "buggering" with the later aesthetic of "queering" canonical works that came to charactize the 1990s and 2000s "queer cinema". Patton explores the aesthetic and political differences in these works and suggests that a revival of early works from the AIDS epidemic may suggest routes out of current political impasses in both the gay/lesbian movement and the AIDS activist movement.
Cindy Patton has published widely on AIDS and gender, contributing greatly to the expansion in humanistic study of AIDS beyond the considerations of gay American men. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Community Culture and Health at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, where she is professor of women’s studies, sociology, and anthropology.
Lecture will be followed by a reception and opening for an exhibition of AIDS educational materials from the Atwater Collection
Thursday Jan 26, 7 pm: Rare Books Room in Rush Rhees Library
Rosalyn A. Engelman Lecture in Art History
Fits and Starts: Moving through the Art World
Jessica Holmes
January 27, 2012
Morey 321 4:00PM
Jessica Holmes, U of R Alumnus (Art History Major Class of 1999) and currently an MFA candidate in the Art Criticism and Writing program at the School of Visual Arts, will speak about her experiences in the art world, her research, and her advancement through her career thus far. Holmes frequently lectures and publishes about the artist Alexander Calder; she was for many years the Deputy Director of the Calder Foundation. She is the curator of the exhibition currently in pasSAGE Gallery, near the Gleason Library, Tommy Evans: Inside the Revolution. Evans is a London-based journalist, a Senior International Producer for CNN, and was a Studio Art major in the Department of Art and Art History.