Jennifer Brier: "I'm Still Surviving: Towards a Women's History of Living with HIV/AIDS"
When:
Thursday, May 3, 2018
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Crowe Hall, 1-132, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Jasmine E. Tucker
(847) 491-5871
Group: Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Using feminist oral history methods for both the collection and interpretation of oral history narratives, this talk, and the public history project it is based on, grounds and ampli es self-determination by women living with HIV/AIDS as it decenters the notions of academic historians being the expert in the history of the epidemic.
Jennifer Brier is an Associate Professor of History and Gender and Women's Studies as well as the Director of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.