International Conference: Aids in Culture IV: Explorations in the Cultural
History of AIDS

Final Program – Ciudad de Mexico City & Puebla
8 – 13 Diciembre/December, 2007

Enkidu Magazine, the International Society for Cultural History and Cultural
Studies (CHICS), and the National Commmission for Human Rights (CNDH) in Mexico
invites the global community to 6 days of vibrant and exciting,
multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual and multi-cultural academic activities
dedicated to Aids in Culture in the Cities of Mexico (8 and 9. December) and
Puebla (10–13 December).

Conference venue in Puebla

HOTEL DEL PORTAL
Av. Juan de Palafox
y Mendoza 205, Puebla, Puebla

The Annual Aids in Culture Conference: Explorations in the Cultural History of
Aids

AIDS is not simply an illness or a biomedical phenomenon. The annual
conference organized by Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City and the International
Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS) together with the
National Commmission for Human Rights (CNDH) in Mexico seeks to examine cultural
responses to AIDS in different cultures and societies across a wide range of
perspectives.

The conference explores the processes by which AIDS is constructed as a cultural
phenomenon and how different societies in their
encounters with AIDS attempt to create meaning in health, illness and
disease. The annual conference brings together academics working in all relevant
disciplines as well as activists, artists and other professionals, and promoting
innovative multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and dialogue.

The aims of our Aids in Culture project are to consider how the social
sciences and humanities can contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS, to develop
an extensive body of scientific literature on cultural responses to HIV/AIDS,
and to build an international network of scientists, professionals, students and
activists working with these issues. Since the first conference in this cycle
was held in the CENADEH (Centro Nacional de Derechos Humanos) in Mexico City in
2004, more than 300 papers have been presented in the different Aids in Culture
events, and more than 50 doctoral dissertations in as many universities around
the world, focusing on aids in its cultural context, have been completed by
former conference delegates.

Focus for Aids in Culture IV: Aids and Otherness & Aids in narratives of
identity

This year the conference will have a special focus on Aids and Otherness and
Aids in narratives of identities. The committee has selected papers addressing
related issues as well as translations between cultures and re-negotiations and
re-constructions of cultural identities in one one way or another in relation to
AIDS and HIV.

Focus 2006: Aids and Civil Culture and Society
Focus 2005: Aids and indigenous knowledge
Focus 2004: Aids and artistic expressions

The conference sessions will be conducted in Castilian and English. Some
sessions will be bilingual and conducted with interpreter. Other sessions will
be conducted with simultanous translation. Translation to Sign Language will be
available upon request.

Conference Coordinator – Coordinador de la Conferencia
Dr. Lars Ivar Owesen-Lein Borge
Academic Coordinator and Founder of Aids in Culture
Cultural Anthropologist – Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main

General Director – Enkidu Magazine

Centro Cultural Enkidu
liowlb@...
Ciudad de México
(55) 5547 2276
044 55 5961 7629

Final Program


Panel Session 1:

"Aids and Otherness (I): Constructing and Reconstructing Aids in African
Cultures"

Monday 10 December 2007, at 10:00 - 11:45


HIV/AIDS and African- Indigenous Religion: A Case of the Shona People in
Zimbabwe
E. Tofa

Department of Arts Education
University of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe


Using Folksongs and Traditional Dance to Contain the AIDS Pandemic in Rural
Kenya. Felistus Kinyanjui
Egerton University. Njoro, Kenya

Perception of Men about AIDS in the Townships: Case Study of Kuwamashu
Township Meron A. Okbandrias

Department of Public Health
University Of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN)
Sudafrica

Panel Session 2:

"Aids and indigenous knowledge (I): West Papua and Venezuela"
Monday 10 December 2007, at 12:00 - 13:45


From ‘Culture of Shame’, ‘Secret Sex’, Toward ‘Secretive Sexual Exchange’; the
Impact of Cultural Practices that Increasing of HIV/AIDS Rate Level in West
Papuan Mining Communities, West Papua, Indonesia

Erna Anjarwati
Social Anthropology Department,
University of Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.

La Prevención de la Infección por VIH/SIDA en los pueblos Indígenas Yukpa,
Wayuu, Japreria, Barí y Añu en Venezuela
Estevan Colina
Fundación Amavida, Maracaibo
Venezuela

Panel Session 3:
"Sida y otredad (II)
Monday 10 December 2007, at 15:00 - 16:45

El Sida: Cultura de exclusión y vulnerabilidad de género: La situación en
Latinoamérica.

José M. Peixoto Caldas
ICCI - Institut Català de Cooperació Iberoamericana
Universidad de Barcelona
España y Kleber M. Gessolo
Técnico Superior del Ayuntamiento de Matao -
Sao Paulo, Brasil

Panel Session 4:

"Arts and Aids Prevention (I)"
Monday 10 December 2007, at 17:00 - 18:45
Vihda y draguería, Antonio Marquet
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
México

The Significance’ of AIDS for Women: Social Stigma and Illness Experiences
Portrayed through Art
Samia Omar, Stony Brook University, Nueva York
Estados Unidos


Panel Session 5:

"Aids and Gay Cultures: Case studies from London, Puebla and Global Leather
Culture"

Tuesday 11 December 2007, at 10:00 - 11:45


Evidenciando al sexo en público entre hombres de Puebla: sobre salud y
encuentros sexuales masculinos del vapor

Alberto Teutle López
Colegio de Antropología Social
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
Red de Democracia y Sexualidad DEMYSEX Puebla.
Puebla, México


Hygiene aesthetics on London’s gay scene: the stigma of AIDS
Johan Andersson,
Department of Geography,
University College London,


Panel Session 6:

"Aids and youth cultures
Tuesday 11 December 2007, at 12:00 - 13:45

Being gay post-HAART: Young gay men negotiating desire, heteronormativity, and
fear of HIV
Trevor Hoppe
Sociology and Women’s Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Estados Unidos


AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS
Paul G. Attinello
School of Arts & Cultures
International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS)
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Reino Unido

Legislación y Sida para servicios de consejeria para jóvenes en Cuba
Mario Angel Herrera Cordero

Área de capacitación e investigaciones,
Centro Nacional de Prevención de las ITS/VIH/SIDA, Cuba


Panel Session 7:
Tuesday 11 December 2007, at 15:00 - 16:45 in Auditorium A.
Round Table Discussion:

HIV/AIDS, Sexuality, gender, ethnicity and some of the other "others":
Interconnecting cultural narratives

“Panel Session 8:

"Sida y Representación social (I)"
Martes 11 de diciembre de 2007 de las 17:00 - 18:45 Hrs.


Autoconcepto en personas que viven con VIH
David Alvarado Jiménez
Fundasida A.C. Mexico

Panel Session 9:

"Aids and indigenous knowledge (II): Zimbabwe and Afro-Cuban Cultures"
Wednesday 12 December 2007, at 10:00 - 11:45


Indigenous knowledge and responses to AIDS. Giving an African face to the ABC
strategy: Reflections on the need to appropriate indigenous African parenting
and reproductive technologies in the HIV/AIDS discourse in Africa.

Loveness Mabhunu
Department of African Women Studies
Clark Atlanta University, Zimbabwe/Estados Unidos

Plantas medicinales, religion afrocubana y vih/sida
Sergio F. Suarez.
Miami Dade County Health Department
Estados Unidos

Panel Session 10:

Wednesday 12 December 2007, at 12:00 - 13:45
First Nation Model on HIV/AIDS and the Immune System

Donna Everette
Chief Jacob Berens Mino-Ayaawin Center
Berens River, Manitoba,
Canada


Co-presenter:

Norman McKay –Co-presenter
Chief Jacob Berens Mino-Ayaawin Center
Berens River, Manitoba,
Canada


Sesión de Mesa 11:

Mesa Redonda:

"Discriminación, Estigmatización y Transfobia: Reflexiones antropológicas sobre
la identidad de género Trans"
Miércoles 12 de diciembre de 2007 de las 16:00 - 17:15 Hrs.

Panel Session 12:

"Societies interacting with Aids: Canada, Cuba, Mexico and Bangladesh"
Wednesday 12 December 2007, at 17:00 - 18:45

On the Power of Labels: The Canadian Red Cross Society and the
Identification of Groups at High Risk of Developing AIDS
Natalie L. Gravelle
York University (Toronto), Canada

Sida: Ciencia, Sociedad Y Tecnologia
Juan Rivero Wong
Universidad de la Habana/
Centro Nacional para la Atención Integral a personas que viven con el VIH Ciudad
de la Habana, Cuba

Cultural Parameters of Practice of Marriage among the Muslims in Bangladesh and
Its Impact on Probability of HIV/AIDS

Profulla C. Sarker
Beijing Normal University / Hong Kong Baptist University, United International
College (UIC)

China


México: El Sida y Los Derechos Humanos Héctor Eloy Rivas Sánchez
Subdirector
Programa de VIH/sida y Derechos Humanos
Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos

Panel Session 13:

"Arts and Aids Prevention (II)
Thursday 13 December 2007, at 10:00 - 11:45

The Art of AIDS Prevention in Australia
Paul Sendziuk
School of History and Politics
University of Adelaide
Australia

El SIDA y el arte del lado de la esperanza
Norma R. Guillard Limonta
Centro Nacional de Prevención de ITS/ VIH- SIDA
Cuba


Arte callejero orientado a la prevención del Sida en la Ciudad de Irapuato
Patricio Bustos

VIHARTE
Irapuato, Gto.
Mexico

Panel Session 14:
"Aids and Cultural Texts (I)"
Thursday 13 December 2007, at 12:00 - 13:45


Non-Compliance: Gary Fisher and the Queer Limits of Rehabilitation
Robert McRuer
Department of English
George Washington University
Estados Unidos

AIDS and Mourning in Three Songs by the Pet Shop Boys
Fred E. Maus
Department of Music, University of Virginia
Estdos Unidos

Panel Session 15:

"Aids and Cultural Texts (II)

Thursday 13 December 2007, at 15:00 - 16:45

AIDS and Narrativity Down Under: Considering William Yang's "Sadness"
Royce W. Smith
Modern and Contemporary Art History
Institution: School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts, Wichita State
University

Estados Unidos

De la peste encerrada a la epidemia infinita: Una mirada sobre el sida a través
de la filosofía de Michel Foucault
Teresa Torra Borràs
Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad de Barcelona
España

Panel Session 16:

Aids in Culture: New Perspectives

Closing Session & Roundtable Discussion
Thursday 13 December 2007, at 17:00 - 18:45

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