BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.2//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Open only to faculty and graduate studentsDr. Gregg Drinkwater\ , Norman and Syril Reitman Visiting Professor\, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life\, Rutgers UniversityTuesday\, April 1 3\, 202110:30 a.m.&ndash\;11:30 a.m.Writer and AIDS activist Larry Kramer\ , who died last May\, was long one of the most divisive voices in the LGBT Q community. Analogies between AIDS and the Holocaust were a recurrent the me in his fiery public speeches and equally incendiary prose\, but were\n often viewed as a strategic and attention-seeking political tool. In th is seminar\, we will explore how Kramer turned to the history and memory o f the Holocaust\, and in particular\, to the political philosophy of Hanna h Arendt\, to help him theorize\n the AIDS epidemic as a call to action . Kramer&rsquo\;s linking of AIDS and the Holocaust derived from his perce ption of similarities between Nazi antisemitism and homophobia.Respondent: Gillian Frank\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Department of American Stu dies\, University of VirginiaThis event will be held virtually through Zoo m. For more information or to register\, visit https://bildnercenter.rutge rs.edu/campus-programs/faculty-seminars. DTEND:20210413T153000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T102757Z DTSTART:20210413T143000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:[Faculty Seminar] Larry Kramer’s Holocaust: AIDS\, Hannah Arendt\, and the Moral Imperative of Political Action UID:RFCALITEM638473048779519584 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Open only to faculty and graduate students
Dr. Gregg Drinkwater\, Norman a nd Syril Reitman Visiting Professor\, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center fo r the Study of Jewish Life\, Rutgers University
Tuesday\, April 13\, 2021
10:30 a.m.&ndash\;11:30 a.m.
Writer and AIDS activist Larry Kramer\, who died last May\, was long on e of the most divisive voices in the LGBTQ community. Analogies between AI DS and the Holocaust were a recurrent theme in his fiery public speeches a nd equally incendiary prose\, but were\n often viewed as a strategic an d attention-seeking political tool. In this seminar\, we will explore how Kramer turned to the history and memory of the Holocaust\, and in particul ar\, to the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt\, to help him theorize\n the AIDS epidemic as a call to action. Kramer&rsquo\;s linking of AIDS and the Holocaust derived from his perception of similarities between Naz i antisemitism and homophobia.
Respondent: Gillian Frank\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Department of American Studies\, Universit y of Virginia
This event will be held virtually through Zoom. For mo re information or to register\, visit https://bildnerce nter.rutgers.edu/campus-programs/faculty-seminars.
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