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Dear Colleagues, can you please circulate this talk and its details to your networks? Thank you! We (CDHI) organized this via The ArQuives --the official presenting organization--to navigate the recently lifted censure https://www.caut.ca/content/censure-against-university-toronto against the University of Toronto. We are very excited to hear Marika's work. Thanks to The ArQuives for their work in presenting this event! Best, Elspeth
*LECTURE: **Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS *
Dr. Marika Cifor, University of Washington
*September 23rd, 4-5:30 pm. *
A free, virtual event; registration required. Register here https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Futoronto.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtZwpceuppz8jEt2z8tiS6L01xYEjX8whnfLh&data=04%7C01%7Celspeth.brown%40utoronto.ca%7C1acc914d9c934beb04f608d97a9c3430%7C78aac2262f034b4d9037b46d56c55210%7C0%7C0%7C637675633565640879%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=b3rwwf2wMnASNuigVoF9rEeoDwrGN881Eb%2FMnunBNiY%3D&reserved=0.
Presented by The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBQT2+ Archives https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farquives.ca%2F&data=04%7C01%7Celspeth.brown%40utoronto.ca%7C1acc914d9c934beb04f608d97a9c3430%7C78aac2262f034b4d9037b46d56c55210%7C0%7C0%7C637675633565650885%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=uF6GgZHoWjJ9urvIAwSetgNxPfDbesttta%2Fkm1p5jaY%3D&reserved=0 in collaboration with the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative https://dhn.lamp4.utoronto.ca/, University of Toronto
The lecture is a book talk focusing on Cifor’s forthcoming *Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS *(University of Minnesota, 2022)*. *In this talk, Cifor examines how by digitally remediating and transmitting viral imagery, aesthetic practices, and political actions from AIDS archives online through vital nostalgia practices contemporary artists Jess Mac, Kia LaBeija, and Demian DinéYazhi’ are reckoning with the whitewashed dominant narratives of the AIDS past. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, Cifor examines the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age.
*Bio: *Marika Cifor, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Information School and adjunct faculty in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is a feminist scholar of archival studies and digital studies. Cifor’s book, *Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS, *will be published by University of Minnesota Press in 2022.
Advanced registration is required.
Elspeth H. Brown
Associate Vice Principal, Research, University of Toronto Mississauga
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