Organization of American Historians (OAH)
Annual Meeting – New Orleans
PANEL TITLE:
Circulating Responses to AIDS: Activism, Outreach, and Late Twentieth-Century Politics
Endorsed by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession and the OAH Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Historians and Histories
When: Friday, April 7, 2017, 9 AM – 10:30 AM
Where: New Orleans Marriott (Room TBA)
Chair and Commentator: Dan Royles, Florida International
University Controlling AIDS Intervention: Racial Necropolitics and the Center for Disease Control’s HIV/AIDS Community Demonstration Projects
Kevin McKenna, University of Washington
“Almost Like One of the Staff”: The Contradictory Politics of Community Care on the United States’ First AIDS Ward
Andrea Milne, University of California, Irvine
From the Politics of Protest to the Politics of Care: AIDS Activism, the Ryan White CARE Act, and Non-Governmental Provision
George Aumoithe, Columbia University
An Epidemic of Resistance: AIDS Activism from Central American Solidarity to the Prison Boom
Emily Hobson, University of Nevada, Reno
