AIDS in Culture: Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS AIDS in Culture is an annual conference organised by Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City in cooperation with the national Mexican AIDS-organisation (CENSIDA), the national Mexican Anti-Discrimination Council (CONAPRED) and the Association of Anthropology Students at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico in Toluca (ADETEA). AIDS in Culture seeks to examine issues relating to AIDS in culture across a wide range of perspectives. The conference aims to bring together people working in all relevant disciplines, including activists, professionals and academics, and to promote innovative multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and dialogue. Among the themes of interest are: AIDS and Cultural Texts: Power and Representation. Representations of AIDS in art, movies, music, poetry, religion and literature from the 1980s until today. How are testimonial narratives mediated and represented? Silences and taboos in discourses on HIV/AIDS. Aesthetic responses to the challenge. Rituals, customs, and fetishism. Cultural practices that influence the spread of HIV/AIDS AIDS and collective and individual identities: Race, Class, Gender etc. AIDS and Politics, Lobbying and Activism: Power, Representation and Activism. Constructions and reconstructions of AIDS in political and faith and ideology based discourse, legal issues and policy making throughout the world. Who has the authority to speak and who is silenced? AIDS and theory: Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Literary Studies and all related disciplines. How do we theorise and analyse experiences and the meaning of illness? The 'significance' of AIDS for individuals and communities; the cultural factors influencing our perceptions of health and illness experiences AIDS and psychosocial affects and effects. Cultures of silence. Indigenous knowledge and AIDS Stories and histories about AIDS AIDS in oral histories For more information, CLICK HERE.