Two Events with Matt Cook

Medical Humanities at WiSER is delighted to announce two events with Prof Matt Cook, based currently at Birkbeck, University of London.

AIDS and Archives of Emotion in the UK
Tuesday, 13 September, 5.30pm, WiSER seminar room
This lecture explores the AIDS crisis in the UK through the prism of the history of the emotions. It draws chiefly on the astonishing testimonies of around 600 largely straight men and women gathered through the Mass Observation project in 1987 and finds a complex emotional landscape which had a pressing impact on everyday lives and on public health policy.
 
Traces, Glimmers, Residues, and Specks of Things: Seeking and Making LGBTI Archives
Thursday, 15 September, 5.30pm, WiSER seminar room
A panel discussion featuring Michele Pickover (Historical Papers, University of the Witwatersrand), Jabu Pereira (Iranti-org), Cynthia Kros (History Workshop, Wits City Institute), Matt Cook (Birkbeck, University of London), and Linda Chernis (GALA).

RSVP sarah.duff@wits.ac.za

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