SHAW 09 Witness Seminar Politics, Policies and Ethics of HIV/AIDS Infection: Past and Present Tuesday 24 November 2009 9:30am – 4pm Teaching Grid (Floor 2, Library) University of Warwick Since 1981 AIDS has killed more than 25 million people worldwide. The SHAW 09 Witness Seminar will feature some of the most prominent names in HIV/AIDS research and activism in the past three decades. Involved first-hand in the struggle over the representation of HIV/AIDS, they will talk about their experiences and memories, and debate their views. Their accounts will be recorded for future research purposes. Witness the witnesses and hear their stories. Participants: Dr Jose Arroyo Department for Film and Television Studies, Warwick University Dr Eduard Beck UNAIDS Evaluation Department, Geneva Professor Roger Cooter UCL Jason Crawford Concordia University, Montreal Prof Lucia F. O’Sullivan Department for Psychology, University of New Brunswick, CA Sir Nick Partridge OBE Terrence Higgins Trust Lisa Power Terrence Higgins Trust Dr. William Spurlin Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence & Cultural Change, University of Sussex Simon Watney CRUSAID Tony Whitehead MBE Dr. Rupert Whitaker Tuke Institute of Medicine www.warwick.ac.uk/go/shaw2009 Sexual Health Awareness Week 23-27 NOVEMBER The Centre for the History of Medicine