PULSE network seminar on AIDS

Seminar Programme 1st Semester 2023/2024

In collaboration with Amsterdam School of Historical Studies

28 September DISABILITY

Co-hosted with Critical Health Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Chaired by Leni Van Goidsenhoven (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

• Eline Pollaert and Floris Plak (Open Universiteit and Vrije Universiteit)
  ‘”To create a beginning, where first there was an end.” Stigma and Het
  Dorp, a residential area for people with physical disabilities in Arnhem,
  the Netherlands’
• Irene Geerts (Open Universiteit)
  ‘Anonymous – Allied – Assertive. Stigma and the origins of the Dutch
  family movement in mental health, 1960-1985′

26 October MIND

• Rebecca Wynter (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  ‘The case of the brick: police corruption and mental illness in 1960s
  London’
• James Kennaway (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
  ‘Enchanted technology: mind control and sound in conspiracy theory’

30 November AIDS

• Bram Mellink & Jesse van Amelsvoort (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  ‘Distorted transmission. AIDS, minority stress and understanding Dutch
  (male) homosexual minorities’ collective past’
• Emma Day (University of Oxford)
  ‘In her hands: women’s fight against AIDS in the United States’

21 December BORREL

25 January FOOD

Co-hosted with Environment and Society, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Chaired by Peter van Dam (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

• Lisa Haushofer (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  ‘The nineteenth-century origins of processed foods’
• Ashok Malhotra (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  ‘Laboratory surveillance: dietary experiments on rats in British India,
  1925-27′

Universiteit van Amsterdam / Bushuis E1.02 / Last Thursday of each month 15:30-17:00