When:
Thursday, October 30, 2014
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT
Where: Parkes Hall, Room 222, 1870 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Jeremy Cornelius
Group: The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)
Category: Academic
"'You mean you're not circumcised!' Male circumcision campaigns for HIV-prevention and the making of bio-sexual citizens" by Aaron Norton
In 2007, the World Health Organization endorsed male circumcision's use as an HIV-prevention strategy in high HIV-prevalence areas. This talk considers how efforts to promote circumcision among heterosexual men in sub-Saharan Africa articulate new forms of sexual responsibility, communal belonging, and blame.
Aaron Norton received his PhD in psychology in 2014 from the University of California, Davis. His dissertation drew upon interdisciplinary perspectives on risk to examine the science, ethics, and politics of male circumcision's emergence as an HIV-risk category and prevention strategy. He is a postdoctoral fellow with the Sexualities Project at Northwestern.