EVENT: Concordia University Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS: “Forgotten Stories: Early AIDS activism in Montreal”

[Forwarded from Kaitlyn Zozula, Coordinator,
Concordia University Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS]

On behalf of the Concordia HIV/AIDS Project and Dr. Thomas Waugh, I am pleased to invite you to the first lecture of the 2016-2017 Concordia University Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS by historians Gary Kinsman and Alexis Shotwell of the AIDS Activist History Project .

Join us at the De Seve Cinema on Thursday Oct 27th at 7pm for a detailed exploration of early AIDS activism in Montreal, and the complex context of colonial, national, linguistic, gendered, racialized, sexual, age and other relations in which this activism took place. See event flier here.

To view and RSVP to the lecture on Facebook visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/1066060076782106/

Also, be sure to RSVP for our accompanying workshop with Gary and Alexis on Oct 28th at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)​ entitled, “Oral History, Memory, and the Social Organization of Forgetting“.

For more information on this year’s events, or to view our archives visit: https://www.concordia.ca/events/projects/hiv-aids.html

If you could help us spread the word about this event by circulating this message to other interested parties, it would be greatly appreciated!

We hope to see you at both events!