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MEDIA CONTACT: Sharon Dickman 585.275.4128
March 8, 2005
TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 5 p.m. Thursday, March 31, in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester’s River Campus
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
One of the most important chroniclers of how HIV/AIDS is dealt with in American culture and within communities will speak at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 31, in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester’s River Campus.
Paula A. Treichler, professor of women’s studies and of medical communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will discuss “Medicine, Culture, and Narrative Power: AIDS on General Hospital” as she examines the community and cultural responses to AIDS, and the spread of AIDS in Africa. Treichler’s talk is free and open to the public.
She has held visiting faculty appointments at several universities, and is the author and co-author of many books, including How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS (1999), and also has published essays on feminist theory, language and gender, language and medicine, and language and American women’s writing. Nancy Chin, assistant professor in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, will introduce the speaker.
Treichler earned her doctorate in linguistics and psycholinguistics at the University of Rochester, and since 1972 has held faculty appointments and administrative positions in a number of programs at the University of Illinois. Currently, she is writing a book on a cultural analysis of condoms in America since 1880.
Her talk is part of the yearlong Neilly Series, which is supported by the Andrew H. Neilly and Janet Dayton Neilly Endowment, and the River Campus Libraries. For more information, contact the library at (585) 275-4461.
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The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
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