When: Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 6pm EST
Where: ONLINE VIA ZOOM:
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In this interactive online event, writer and organizer Theodore (Ted) Kerr will facilitate an opportunity for participants to consider the role and practices of archiving and care in real time as it relates to memory, action, and historiziation. Kerr will connect this discussion with his work looking at the pre-histories of the ongoing AIDS crisis and how it relates to the unfolding story of COVID-19.
Canadian born Theodore Kerr is a Brooklyn based writer, organizer and artist whose work focuses on HIV/AIDS, community, and culture. Kerr’s writing has appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, The New Inquiry, BOMB, CBC (Canada), Lambda Literary, POZ Magazine, The Advocate, Cineaste, The St. Louis American, IndieWire, HyperAllergic, and other publications. Kerr earned his MA from Union Theological Seminary where he researched Christian Ethics and HIV. Currently, Kerr teaches at The New School. In 2016 / 2017 Kerr performed 10 interviews for the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art’s Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project. Kerr received his oral history training from Suzanne Snider as part of the Oral History Summer School. He was a member of the New York City Trans Oral History Project. Working with the Brooklyn Historical Society, Kerr indexed their AIDS oral history project. Kerr is a founding member of the What Would An HIV Doula Do? collective, a community of people committed to better implicating community within the ongoing response to HIV/AIDS. He was the programs manager at Visual AIDS> In 2019, he edited WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT AIDS COULD FILL A MUSEUM for the academic journal, On Curating. TEDKERR.CLUB
Blog Post Reflections:
What can journalists learn from Oral History when covering the Covid-19 pandemic? by Bel Thomps
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