[Air-L] Book Release Panel for Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS

[Marika L. Cifor]

Book release panel in honor of Marika Cifor’s *Viral Cultures: Activist
Archiving in the Age of AIDS* (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)



May 17, 2022 at 12:00 pm PST on zoom:
https://washington.zoom.us/j/96409051468


*Featuring discussion panelists: *

   - Lisa Nakamura, Department of American Culture, Asian/Pacific Islander
   American Studies, and Digital Studies Institute*, *University of
   Michigan
   - Ann Cvetkovich, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender
   Studies, Carleton University
   - Jennifer Douglas, Information School (Library, Archival and
   Information Studies), University of British Columbia
   - Sarah Nguyen, Information School, University of Washington



*Panel Host and Moderator:  *

   - Tonia Sutherland, Department of Information and Computer Sciences at
   the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa



Marika Cifor is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the
University of Washington and an adjunct faculty member in Gender, Women &
Sexuality studies. Her new book *Viral Cultures *delves deep into the
archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activisms alive. Serving as
a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the
1980s and 1990s, *Viral* *Cultures* is the first book to critically examine
the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those
radical activities. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty
and a generative practice, Cifor explores the act of saving this activist
past and reanimating it in the digital age.



Learn more about (and buy!) Marika's book here:

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/viral-cultures

-- 
Marika Cifor, PhD
Assistant Professor
Information School, University of Washington
Box 352840 - Mary Gates Hall, Ste. 370
Seattle, WA 98195-2840
mcifor at uw.edu
https://marikacifor.com/
pronouns: she/her/hers