Home > VISUAL ARTS > ACT UP 20 Years Later (2 day symposium)

• Tweet
• Outlook
• ICAL
• PRINT
• Email
• Feedback

• RSS

• Official Website
• Add to My Favorites

ACT UP 20 Years Later (2 day symposium)

Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

October 16-October 17, 2009

Add Review/Comment
Comment on Facebook

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
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

Free admission.

For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu.

The above program is 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. Organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museum. On view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15–December 23, 2009.

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.