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"ACT UP New York" EXHIBITION and EVENTS
presented by
CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS and HARVARD ART MUSEUM
The programs below are presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York:
Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, an exhibition of over
70 politically charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that
emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City. The
exhibition also features the premiere of the ACT UP Oral History
Project, a suite of over 100 video interviews with surviving members
of ACT UP New York. Organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual
Arts and the Harvard Art Museum.
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 is co-
curated by Helen Molesworth, Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art,
Harvard Art Muse um/Fogg Museum; and Claire Grace, Agnes Mongan
Curatorial Intern, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard
Art Museum/Fogg Museum and a PhD candidate in Harvard University’s
History of Art and Architecture Department.
On view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15–
December 23, 2009.
Exhibition info
Fierce Pussy artist residency and site-specific installations
A PDF file of the exhibition poster is attached to this email.
_______________
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 6:00–9:00pm
Special Event: Exhibition Opening Lecture and Celebration
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993
6:00pm, Carpenter Center Lecture
Collective Action: Calling All Artists
Robert Vazquez Pacheo, artist and writer, member of Gran Fury
Avram Finkelstein, artist and writer, member of Gran Fury and
Silence=Death Project
Sarah Schulman, co-director, ACT UP Oral History Project; novelist,
historian, and playwright; professor of English, City University of
New York
Jim Hubbard, co-director, ACT UP Oral History Project; filmmaker
http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/collective.html
7:00pm, Reception and Opening of the Exhibition:
Join curators Helen Molesworth and Claire Grace as well as exhibitors
Robert Vazquez Pacheo, Avram Finkelstein, Sarah Schulman, Jim Hubbard,
and members of Fierce Pussy.
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Friday, October 16, 2009, 5:00–6:30pm; and Saturday, October 17, 2009,
10:00am–6:00pm
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium
ACT UP 20 Years Later
Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, lecture hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Free admission. Open to the public.
617-495-9400
Event info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=24446
This symposium will assess the activism and visual media that came out
of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and the AIDS crisis
more generally from perspectives including queer theory, art history
and criticism, public health, and the history of social movements.
Friday, October 16, 2009, 5:00–6:30pm
Illegitimacy
Leo Bersani, professor emeritus of French, University of California,
Berkeley
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 10:00am–noon
ACT UP New York
Three former members of ACT UP address how and why ACT UP started and
what it achieved.
Gregg Bordowitz, filmmaker; associate professor of film, video, and
new media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Joy Episalla, artist, member of Fierce Pussy
Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law and director, Center for the
Study of Law and Culture, Columbia University
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 1:30–3:30pm
Storm the NIH
0A
Activists and a National Institutes of Health professional address one
of ACT UP’s most famous actions, its 1990 attempt to seize control of
the NIH.
Garance Franke-Ruta, national web politics editor, Washington Post
(Harvard Class of 1997)
Mark Harrington, executive director, Treatment Action Group (Harvard
Class of 1983)
Jack Killen, deputy director, National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 4:30–6:00pm
Stonewall and Other Summer Palaces: 1969/1989/2009
Richard Meyer, associate professor of art history and fine arts,
University of Southern California
The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture20Fund was established through the
generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor
Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to
present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the
Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
__
Friday, October 16, 2009, 8:00pm; and Saturday, October 17, 8:00pm
Screenings
AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer Cinema
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Special event tickets $12 each night. Open to the public.
617-495-4700
Event info: http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2009octdec/aids.html
The Harvard Film Archive presents films and videos that document the
political struggles around AIDS and demonstrate through their formal
experiments that the epidemic was a crisis of signification. Artists
include the Gran Fury collective, the Testing the Limits collective,
John Greyson, Barbara Hammer, Isaac Julien, Tom Kalin, Carol Leigh,
Nino Rodriguez, and David Wojnarowicz. In person director appearances
include Avram Finkelstein, Alex Juhasz, and Robert Vazquez Pacheco
(Friday screening); Gregg Bordowitz and Jim Hubbard (Saturday
screening).
__
Monday, October 19, 2009, 12:00–7:00pm **new start time**
Symposium
HIV Denialism, Mistrust, and Stigma
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Open to the public.
Organized by the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research and the
Harvard Initiative for Global Health.
For more information, please call 617-495-8231 or visit:
http://cfar.globalhealth.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k58622&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup86988
Online registration is open now.
12:00–1:00pm, Lunch and Registration
1:00–1:10pm, Opening Remarks
Laura Bogart, PhD; associate professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical
School; Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston
Session I Presenters
1:10–1:35pm
“HIV Does Not Cause AIDS” and the Dangers of AIDS Denialism
Seth Kalichman, PhD; professor of psychology, Center for Health,
Intervention, and Prevention, University of Connecticut
1:35–2:00pm
HIV Denialism and HIV Conspiracies in South Africa
Nicoli Nattrass, MSc, DPhil; professor, School of Economics and
director, AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town
2:00–2:25pm
HIV Conspiracy Beliefs as Barriers to HIV Prevention and Treatment
Laura Bogart, PhD; associate professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical
School; Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston
2:25–2:40pm, Coffee Break
2:40–3:05pm
Discrimination and Conspiracy Beliefs are Associated with HIV Vaccines
Acceptability and Access to Care: Results from LA VOICES
William E. Cunningham, MD, MPH; faculty associate, UCLA Center for
Health Policy Research; professor, UCLA School of Medicine
3:05–3:30pm
HIV Denialism and Human Rights
Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA; associate professor of health and human
rights, and director, Program on International Health and Human
Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
3:30–3:55pm, Question and Answer Session
3:55–4:10pm, Coffee Break
Session II Community Panel Discussion
4:10–4:15pm, Panel Introduction
Rhoda Johnson Tuckett, M.ED; education and outreach manager,
Infectious Disease Bureau, Boston Public Health Commission
4:15–5:30pm, Panel Discussion
Iris Rivera, community AIDS activist
Ben Perkins, MA, MDiv; director, Project Saving Ourselves (SOS), The
Fenway Institute
Nancy Galloway, Boston Pediatric and Family AIDS Project, The Dimock
Center
Reverend Franklin Hobbs, executive director, Healing Our Land, Inc.
5:30–5:45pm, Closing Remarks
Valerie Stone, MD, MPH; director, Primary Residency Program, and
associate chief, General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
5:45–7:00pm, Reception
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 7:30–9:30pm
Reading
The Lady Hamlet, a play by Sarah Schulman
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Open to the public.
A discussion with the playwright Sarah Schulman follows a reading by
members of the American Repertory Theater, including actress Kate
Burton. Part of the A.R.T.’s Shakespeare Exploded! series.
For more information, please call 617-495-2668 or visit: www.amrep.org.
__
Thursday, October 22, 2009, 5:00–6:30pm
Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest
AIDS and Remembrance: Days of 1983
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
(617) 495-5819
William Rubenstein, professor of law, Harvard Law School
0A
The "ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest" lecture series is
sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Lectures will be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program
director.
__
Friday, October 23, 2009, 5:00pm
Workshop on Sexual Health
The Art of Prevention: Workshops with Harvard College Peer
Contraceptive Counselors
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Main Gallery, gr ound floor. Open to
Harvard students only.
617-495-7561 (Peer Contraceptive Counselors, general phone)
Open, interactive demonstrations of contraceptive and STI-preventive
methods, followed by conversation with counselors on any and all
topics.
For information about Peer Contraceptive Counselors (PCC):
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~pcc/ .
__
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 4:00–5:30pm
Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest
Is ACT UP History? A Movement That’s Over, a Crisis That Isn’t
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
(617) 495-5819
Christopher Capozzola, associate professor of history, MIT
The "ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest" lecture series is
sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Lectures will be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program
director.
Saturday, October 31, 2009, 11:00–11:30am
Gallery Talk
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
Gallery talks are informal and include discussion.
617-495-3251 (CCVA, general phone)
Claire Grace, exhibition co-curator and Agnes Mongan Curatorial
Intern, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/
Fogg Museum
=0 A
This talk will explore posters, stickers, and public art projects made
by art collectives that emerged out of New York’s AIDS Coalition to
Unleash Power (ACT UP). Powerful graphics helped transform entrenched
ideas about sexuality and played an enormous role in changing legal
policy and medical practice.
__
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 1:00–1:30pm
Gallery Talk
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
Gallery talks are informal and include discussion.
617-495-3251 (CCVA, general phone)
Helen Molesworth, exhibition co-curator and Houghton Curator of
Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum
This talk will explore posters, stickers, and public art projects made
by art collectives that emerged out of New York’s AIDS Coalition to
Unleash Power (ACT UP). Powerful graphics helped transform entrenched
ideas about sexuality and played an enormous role in changing legal
policy and medical practice.
__
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:00–5:30pm
Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest:
The Power of AIDS Activis m: Defying the Convergence of the Forbidden
and the Disenfranchised
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
(617) 495-5819
Amber Hollibaugh, queer activist and author, My Dangerous Desires
The "ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest" lecture series is
sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will
be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009, 8:00pm
Student Performance
Who Wants to Live Forever?
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Main Gallery, ground floor. Open to the
public.
617-495-9400
Event info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=25873
Choreography and direction by Trevor Martin ’10.
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Friday, November 13, 2009, 5:00pm
Workshop on Sexual Health
The Art of Prevention: Workshops with Harvard College Peer
Contraceptive Counselors
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Main Gallery, ground floor. Open to
Harvard students only.
617-495-7561 (Peer Contraceptive Counselors, general phone)
Open, interactive demonstrations of contraceptive and STI-preventive
methods, followed by conversation with counselors on any and all
topics. For information about Peer Contraceptive Counselors (PCC):
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~pcc/ .
__
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 4:00–5:30pm
Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest
HIV/AIDS Activism in African American Communities: The Limits of Self-
Help
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
(617) 495-5819
Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the
History of Science and of African and African American Studies, and
Dean of Harvard College
The "ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest" lecture series is
sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will
be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 6:00pm
Poetry Reading
Mark Doty, Eileen Myles, and an AIDS Poetic Retrospective
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Free admission.=2 0Open to the public.
617-495-9400
Event info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=25876
Mark Doty is the author of My Alexandria and winner of a 2008 National
Book Award. Eileen Myles, hailed as “the rock star of modern poetry,”
is the author of over 20 volumes of poetry, most recently Sorry, Tree.
They will be joined by Harvard undergraduate poets reciting works by
writers – Tory Dent, Melvin Dixon, Thom Gunn, Tony Kushner, James
Merrill, and others – whose words have compelled attention to the AIDS
crisis.
Introduction by Christina Davis, curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room.
Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, Houghton Library. Reception
to follow at the Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
24 Quincy Street.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 6:00–7: 00pm
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture:
World AIDS Day Lecture: Seeing AIDS
Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, lecture hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Free admission. Open to the public.
Sackler galleries will remain open until 6pm.
617-495-9400
Event info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=24491
Philip Yenawine, co-founding director, Visual Understanding in
Education
Director of education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1983
to 1993, Yenawine was engaged with activist artists. He will reflect
on the impact of AIDS on the cultural sector, artists’ responses to
the crisis, and December 1 as “A Day without Art.”
The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund was established through the
generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor
Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to
present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the
Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
__
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 4:00–5:30pm
Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS P rotest:
Full Equality and How We Get There
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
(617) 495-5819
Jarrett T. Barrios, president, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD)
The "ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest" lecture series is
sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will
be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director.
__
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 6:00pm
Workshop on Sexual Health:
The Art of Prevention: Workshops with Harvard College Peer
Contraceptive Counselors
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Main Gallery, ground floor. Open to
Harvard students only.
617-495-7561 (Peer Contraceptive Counselors, general phone)
Open, interactive demonstrations of contraceptive and STI-preventive
methods, followed by conversation with counselors on any and all
topics. For information about Peer Contraceptive Counselors (PCC):
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~pcc/ .
=
presented by
CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS and HARVARD ART MUSEUM
The programs below are presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York:
Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, an exhibition of over
70 politically charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that
emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City. The
exhibition also features the premiere of the ACT UP Oral History
Project, a suite of over 100 video interviews with surviving members
of ACT UP New York. Organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual
Arts and the Harvard Art Museum.
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 is co-
curated by Helen Molesworth, Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art,
Harvard Art Muse um/Fogg Museum; and Claire Grace, Agnes Mongan
Curatorial Intern, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard
Art Museum/Fogg Museum and a PhD candidate in Harvard University’s
History of Art and Architecture Department.
On view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15–
December 23, 2009.
Exhibition info
Fierce Pussy artist residency and site-specific installations
A PDF file of the exhibition poster is attached to this email.
_______________
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 6:00–9:00pm
Special Event: Exhibition Opening Lecture and Celebration
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993
6:00pm, Carpenter Center Lecture
Collective Action: Calling All Artists
Robert Vazquez Pacheo, artist and writer, member of Gran Fury
Avram Finkelstein, artist and writer, member of Gran Fury and
Silence=Death Project
Sarah Schulman, co-director, ACT UP Oral History Project; novelist,
historian, and playwright; professor of English, City University of
New York
Jim Hubbard, co-director, ACT UP Oral History Project; filmmaker
http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/collective.html
7:00pm, Reception and Opening of the Exhibition:
Join curators Helen Molesworth and Claire Grace as well as exhibitors
Robert Vazquez Pacheo, Avram Finkelstein, Sarah Schulman, Jim Hubbard,
and members of Fierce Pussy.
__
Friday, October 16, 2009, 5:00–6:30pm; and Saturday, October 17, 2009,
10:00am–6:00pm
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium
ACT UP 20 Years Later
Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, lecture hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Free admission. Open to the public.
617-495-9400
Event info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=24446
This symposium will assess the activism and visual media that came out
of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and the AIDS crisis
more generally from perspectives including queer theory, art history
and criticism, public health, and the history of social movements.
Friday, October 16, 2009, 5:00–6:30pm
Illegitimacy
Leo Bersani, professor emeritus of French, University of California,
Berkeley
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 10:00am–noon
ACT UP New York
Three former members of ACT UP address how and why ACT UP started and
what it achieved.
Gregg Bordowitz, filmmaker; associate professor of film, video, and
new media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Joy Episalla, artist, member of Fierce Pussy
Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law and director, Center for the
Study of Law and Culture, Columbia University
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 1:30–3:30pm
Storm the NIH
0A
Activists and a National Institutes of Health professional address one
of ACT UP’s most famous actions, its 1990 attempt to seize control of
the NIH.
Garance Franke-Ruta, national web politics editor, Washington Post
(Harvard Class of 1997)
Mark Harrington, executive director, Treatment Action Group (Harvard
Class of 1983)
Jack Killen, deputy director, National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 4:30–6:00pm
Stonewall and Other Summer Palaces: 1969/1989/2009
Richard Meyer, associate professor of art history and fine arts,
University of Southern California
The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture20Fund was established through the
generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor
Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to
present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the
Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
__
Friday, October 16, 2009, 8:00pm; and Saturday, October 17, 8:00pm
Screenings
AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer Cinema
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Special event tickets $12 each night. Open to the public.
617-495-4700
Event info: http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2009octdec/aids.html
The Harvard Film Archive presents films and videos that document the
political struggles around AIDS and demonstrate through their formal
experiments that the epidemic was a crisis of signification. Artists
include the Gran Fury collective, the Testing the Limits collective,
John Greyson, Barbara Hammer, Isaac Julien, Tom Kalin, Carol Leigh,
Nino Rodriguez, and David Wojnarowicz. In person director appearances
include Avram Finkelstein, Alex Juhasz, and Robert Vazquez Pacheco
(Friday screening); Gregg Bordowitz and Jim Hubbard (Saturday
screening).
__
Monday, October 19, 2009, 12:00–7:00pm **new start time**
Symposium
HIV Denialism, Mistrust, and Stigma
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Open to the public.
Organized by the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research and the
Harvard Initiative for Global Health.
For more information, please call 617-495-8231 or visit:
http://cfar.globalhealth.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k58622&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup86988
Online registration is open now.
12:00–1:00pm, Lunch and Registration
1:00–1:10pm, Opening Remarks
Laura Bogart, PhD; associate professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical
School; Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston
Session I Presenters
1:10–1:35pm
“HIV Does Not Cause AIDS” and the Dangers of AIDS Denialism
Seth Kalichman, PhD; professor of psychology, Center for Health,
Intervention, and Prevention, University of Connecticut
1:35–2:00pm
HIV Denialism and HIV Conspiracies in South Africa
Nicoli Nattrass, MSc, DPhil; professor, School of Economics and
director, AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town
2:00–2:25pm
HIV Conspiracy Beliefs as Barriers to HIV Prevention and Treatment
Laura Bogart, PhD; associate professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical
School; Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston
2:25–2:40pm, Coffee Break
2:40–3:05pm
Discrimination and Conspiracy Beliefs are Associated with HIV Vaccines
Acceptability and Access to Care: Results from LA VOICES
William E. Cunningham, MD, MPH; faculty associate, UCLA Center for
Health Policy Research; professor, UCLA School of Medicine
3:05–3:30pm
HIV Denialism and Human Rights
Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA; associate professor of health and human
rights, and director, Program on International Health and Human
Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
3:30–3:55pm, Question and Answer Session
3:55–4:10pm, Coffee Break
Session II Community Panel Discussion
4:10–4:15pm, Panel Introduction
Rhoda Johnson Tuckett, M.ED; education and outreach manager,
Infectious Disease Bureau, Boston Public Health Commission
4:15–5:30pm, Panel Discussion
Iris Rivera, community AIDS activist
Ben Perkins, MA, MDiv; director, Project Saving Ourselves (SOS), The
Fenway Institute
Nancy Galloway, Boston Pediatric and Family AIDS Project, The Dimock
Center
Reverend Franklin Hobbs, executive director, Healing Our Land, Inc.
5:30–5:45pm, Closing Remarks
Valerie Stone, MD, MPH; director, Primary Residency Program, and
associate chief, General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
5:45–7:00pm, Reception
__
Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 7:30–9:30pm
Reading
The Lady Hamlet, a play by Sarah Schulman
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Open to the public.
A discussion with the playwright Sarah Schulman follows a reading by
members of the American Repertory Theater, including actress Kate
Burton. Part of the A.R.T.’s Shakespeare Exploded! series.
For more information, please call 617-495-2668 or visit: www.amrep.org.
__
Thursday, October 22, 2009, 5:00–6:30pm
Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest
AIDS and Remembrance: Days of 1983
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
(617) 495-5819
William Rubenstein, professor of law, Harvard Law School
0A
The "ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest" lecture series is
sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Lectures will be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program
director.
__
Friday, October 23, 2009, 5:00pm
Workshop on Sexual Health
The Art of Prevention: Workshops with Harvard College Peer
Contraceptive Counselors
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Main Gallery, gr ound floor. Open to
Harvard students only.
617-495-7561 (Peer Contraceptive Counselors, general phone)
Open, interactive demonstrations of contraceptive and STI-preventive
methods, followed by conversation with counselors on any and all
topics.
For information about Peer Contraceptive Counselors (PCC):
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~pcc/ .
__
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 4:00–5:30pm
Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest
Is ACT UP History? A Movement That’s Over, a Crisis That Isn’t
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
(617) 495-5819
Christopher Capozzola, associate professor of history, MIT
The "ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest" lecture series is
sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Lectures will be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program
director.
Saturday, October 31, 2009, 11:00–11:30am
Gallery Talk
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
Gallery talks are informal and include discussion.
617-495-3251 (CCVA, general phone)
Claire Grace, exhibition co-curator and Agnes Mongan Curatorial
Intern, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/
Fogg Museum
=0 A
This talk will explore posters, stickers, and public art projects made
by art collectives that emerged out of New York’s AIDS Coalition to
Unleash Power (ACT UP). Powerful graphics helped transform entrenched
ideas about sexuality and played an enormous role in changing legal
policy and medical practice.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009, 1:00–1:30pm
Gallery Talk
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
Gallery talks are informal and include discussion.
617-495-3251 (CCVA, general phone)
Helen Molesworth, exhibition co-curator and Houghton Curator of
Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum
This talk will explore posters, stickers, and public art projects made
by art collectives that emerged out of New York’s AIDS Coalition to
Unleash Power (ACT UP). Powerful graphics helped transform entrenched
ideas about sexuality and played an enormous role in changing legal
policy and medical practice.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:00–5:30pm
Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest:
The Power of AIDS Activis m: Defying the Convergence of the Forbidden
and the Disenfranchised
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
(617) 495-5819
Amber Hollibaugh, queer activist and author, My Dangerous Desires
The "ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest" lecture series is
sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will
be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009, 8:00pm
Student Performance
Who Wants to Live Forever?
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Main Gallery, ground floor. Open to the
public.
617-495-9400
Event info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=25873
Choreography and direction by Trevor Martin ’10.
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Friday, November 13, 2009, 5:00pm
Workshop on Sexual Health
The Art of Prevention: Workshops with Harvard College Peer
Contraceptive Counselors
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Main Gallery, ground floor. Open to
Harvard students only.
617-495-7561 (Peer Contraceptive Counselors, general phone)
Open, interactive demonstrations of contraceptive and STI-preventive
methods, followed by conversation with counselors on any and all
topics. For information about Peer Contraceptive Counselors (PCC):
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~pcc/ .
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Thursday, November 19, 2009, 4:00–5:30pm
Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest
HIV/AIDS Activism in African American Communities: The Limits of Self-
Help
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
(617) 495-5819
Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the
History of Science and of African and African American Studies, and
Dean of Harvard College
The "ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest" lecture series is
sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will
be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 6:00pm
Poetry Reading
Mark Doty, Eileen Myles, and an AIDS Poetic Retrospective
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Free admission.=2 0Open to the public.
617-495-9400
Event info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=25876
Mark Doty is the author of My Alexandria and winner of a 2008 National
Book Award. Eileen Myles, hailed as “the rock star of modern poetry,”
is the author of over 20 volumes of poetry, most recently Sorry, Tree.
They will be joined by Harvard undergraduate poets reciting works by
writers – Tory Dent, Melvin Dixon, Thom Gunn, Tony Kushner, James
Merrill, and others – whose words have compelled attention to the AIDS
crisis.
Introduction by Christina Davis, curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room.
Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, Houghton Library. Reception
to follow at the Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
24 Quincy Street.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 6:00–7: 00pm
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture:
World AIDS Day Lecture: Seeing AIDS
Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, lecture hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Free admission. Open to the public.
Sackler galleries will remain open until 6pm.
617-495-9400
Event info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=24491
Philip Yenawine, co-founding director, Visual Understanding in
Education
Director of education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1983
to 1993, Yenawine was engaged with activist artists. He will reflect
on the impact of AIDS on the cultural sector, artists’ responses to
the crisis, and December 1 as “A Day without Art.”
The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund was established through the
generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor
Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to
present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the
Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
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Thursday, December 3, 2009, 4:00–5:30pm
Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS P rotest:
Full Equality and How We Get There
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. Open to the
public.
(617) 495-5819
Jarrett T. Barrios, president, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD)
The "ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest" lecture series is
sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will
be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director.
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Thursday, December 3, 2009, 6:00pm
Workshop on Sexual Health:
The Art of Prevention: Workshops with Harvard College Peer
Contraceptive Counselors
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
02138
Free admission. Meet in the Main Gallery, ground floor. Open to
Harvard students only.
617-495-7561 (Peer Contraceptive Counselors, general phone)
Open, interactive demonstrations of contraceptive and STI-preventive
methods, followed by conversation with counselors on any and all
topics. For information about Peer Contraceptive Counselors (PCC):
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~pcc/ .
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