PROGRAM

2:00 PM

Welcoming Remarks

LANCE WAHLERT

Public film screening and workshop

A selection of two short films related to queer bioethics

- Dottie Gets Spanked (1993 | dir. Todd Haynes | 30 mins.)

- The ADS Epidemic (1987 | dir. John Greyson | 5 mins.)

Discussion to follow

3:30 PM

“I Caught It at the Movies: Medical History,

Queer Theory, and the Cinema of Contagion”

LANCE WAHLERT

Director, Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Respondent: Mia Mask

Associate Professor of Film, Vassar College

5:00 PM

“Queer Chronicities”

ELIZABETH FREEMAN

Professor of English

University of California, Davis

Respondent: Heather K. Love

R. Jean Brownlee Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

6:30 PM

Reception

7:00 PM

“Learning from Philadelphia: Retroviral Invisibility

and the Tracing of HIV/HCV Networks”

LISA CARTWRIGHT

Professor of Communication and Science Studies

University of California, San Diego

Respondent: Mara Mills

Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU

Closing Remarks

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