AIDS in Culture II will be held in Puerto Vallarta on the Mexican Pacific coast Friday 9th December to Monday 12th December 2005. More information will be published on this page soon.  Call for Papers: AIDS in Culture II (coming soon) AIDS in Culture I took place on Friday 10th December - Sunday 12th December 2004 in Mexico City in the CNDH (National Center for Human Rights).

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This conference arranged annually by Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City with the support and participation of CENSIDA and CNDH, seeks to examine issues relating to AIDS in culture across a wide range of perspectives. The conferences bring together people working in all relevant disciplines, activists, professionals, academics and promoting innovative multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and dialogue. 

AIDS in CULTURE I (10 Dec. – 12 Dec. 2004 in the Centro Nacional de los Derechos Humanos – CENADEH, Mexico City) was an incredible success. Alltogether we had 52 participants representing a wide range of academic disciplines as well as artists, activists and other highly interesting individuals who shared their research, their art, their visions and their ideas with us. The discussions after the presentations were intriguing and exiting. Among the delegates there was an impressive level of participation: 14 different universities, two government agencies and five NGO’s were represented, among them Clermont-Ferrand, Georgetown, San Franscisco, New York, Goethe in Frankfurt, UAEM-Toluca.

CENADEH did a great effort to ensure that everything ran smoothly. All technical equipment was provided when necessary and the infrastructure never failed. Our conference stimulated interesting discussions, presented innovative cutting edge research from several disciplines and diverse and exiting new perspectives on AIDS not just as a virus and a disease but as a cultural phenomenon, which has had a profound impact on our societies far beyond itself.

The papers presented at the conference will be edited and published as a book, both in an English and a Spanish edition. Abstracts of the conference papers will be made available in the following days. Pictures from the conference are available here.

As you can see, Francisco Javier Ojeda, our official photographer and a wonderful artist, did an excellent job.The extraordinary exhibition by Rolando de la Rosa in the auditorium received several compliments from the delegates and stimulated an exiting exchange on Sunday when he gave his speech about the project. The artistic program by Humberto Alvarez, Artemisa Teatro and Horacio Franco was also highly appreciated and received favourable comments.

[13.12.2004]: Fotos de la conferencia

(updated 13:12 at 17:15 CET)

como llegar/how to get to the conference

[30.10.2004]: Programa/Programme  

[29.11.2004]: The latest conference poster (in tabloid-format) and the final program can now be downloaded from the conference download page as pdf-files.

Conference Download Page

Panel sessions/Mesas:
Friday 10 December/Viernes 10 de Diciembre 2004:
11:15 – 12:45	Aids in its political context: Comparative views	El SIDA en su contexto político: Perspectivas comparativas
13:00 – 14:30	Artistic Expressions and AIDS	Expresión artística y el SIDA
15:30 – 17:00	Literature and Ethnography: Conceptualising AIDS across cultural borders	Literatura y Etnografía; conceptualizando al SIDA a través de las fronteras culturales
17:15 – 18:30	Transsexuality and AIDS	Transexualidad y SIDA
Saturday 11 December/ Sábado 11 de Diciembre 2004:
11:00 – 12:30	Alternative Activism: Integration of AIDS into Culture	Activismo Alternativo: La integración del SIDA en la cultura
12:30– 13:30	Sexual Diversity: “Anthropological approaches to AIDS and Culture”	Diversidad sexual: “Acercamiento antropológico al SIDA y la cultura
14:30 – 16:00	Reinventing Activism in Times of Social Transition	Reinventando el Activismo en Tiempos de Transición Social.
16:15 – 18:00	Stories and Histories about AIDS	Historias sobre el SIDA
Sunday 12 December/Domingo 12 de Dicembre 2004:
11:15 – 12:15	A Disease Without Borders: the Impact of HIV and Migration on Families Living along the U.S.-Mexico Border	Una infermedad sin fronteras: El impacto del VIH y la migración en familias que viven en la zona frontera entre E.U.A. y México
12:30 – 14:00	Gendered and Cultural Perceptions of AIDS in the Mexican Society	Percepciones de Género y Culturales del SIDA en la Sociedad Mexicana
14:15 – 15:30	The Impact of AIDS and HIV in Africa: Perspectives from Within	El impacto del VIH y el SIDA en Africa: Perspectivas desde Dentro
15:30 – 17:30	Workshop: Family constellations and AIDS ,	Taller de constelaciones familiares y SIDA

[30.10.2004]: Programa/Programme  

Abstracts and summaries of the conference papers will be made available at this web page from November 2004.

For  further information, please contact the organising comitee at:

info@enkidumagazine.com