The Interdisciplinary Working Group on
HIV/AIDS Representations and Practices

Presentations and Meetings: 1994-1995

all meetings were held at the Berkeley Community Law Center


October 11, 1994

David Eaton, UCB Med Anthro

"Emotion and Social Change in Response to the AIDS Epidemic in Cameroon and Congo"

 

October 25, 1994

Chris Lockhart, UCSF Med Anthro

"The Spread of AIDS in Uganda"

 

November 8, 1994

Alysa Chadow, Columbia University Anthro

"An Ethnograophy of an AIDS Service Organization in Oakland"

 

November 22, 1994

Bili Goldberg, AIDS Activist and Guerilla Immunologist

"The Politics of Alternative Treatments"

 

February 7, 1995

Bruce Kieler, UCB Public Health

"The Oakland AIDS Planning Council: An Update"

 

February 21, 1995

Philippe Bourgois, SFSU Anthro and Charles Pearson, Urban Institute

"Begging a Cotton Shot: An Ethnographic Account of Indirect Needle Sharing Among Homeless Street Addicts in San Francisco"

 

March 7, 1995

José Marmo da Silva, ARCA/ISER Projeto Odoya, Brazil

"Project Odoya: an HIV prevention intervention among Afro-Brazilian Religious Groups"

 

March 21, 1995

Nicolas Sheon, UCB Med Anthro

"'Say Three Hail Mary's and Take Some Condoms': Confessional Discourse and HIV Test Counseling"

 

April 4, 1995

Margery Lazarus, UCSF Med Anthro

"Sex, Fear and Videotape: Alienation and Desire in Thai Safe Sex Television Commercials"

 

April 7, 1995

Panel on the Anthropology of AIDS, chaired by Nicolas Sheon

at the Annual Meetings of the Soutwestern Anthropoligical Association, in San Francisco.

This panel included some of the above papers and the following additional papers were presented by HIV Representations and Practices Working Group Members

Sandra Hyde, UCSF Med Anthro
"Only Dictators Bare Their Souls to the Masses: Practicing Ethnography in an Urban AIDS Clinic"

Daniel Halperin, UCB Center for Alcohol Research
"A Critique of the AIDS as Venereal Disease Approach to AIDS Prevention Programs"

Chris Lockhart, UCSF Med Anthro
"Condom Promotion in Uganda: Mixed Metaphors and Multiple Meanings"

 

[ Home Page ][ Site Map ][ Links ][ Feedback ][ Submit ][ HIV Prevention Services ]
[ Berkeley Free Clinic ][ Confession Box ][ Counselor Resources ][ Relationships ][ Theorizing Desire ]