The Technological Pandemic: The Present, Past, and Future of Coming Together

A Public Performance Lecture by Dr. Alexandra Juhasz (Brooklyn College, CUNY)

Time: Sunday 5 May 2024, 6:00-7:30 pm (HK time)

Place: Kino, Eaton House

(1/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan, Kowloon)

Format: Hybrid

(for registered online attendees, the ZOOM link will be sent via email prior to the event)

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Organizer: Digital Narratives Studio (CUHK) in partnership with Eaton

Contact: com-dns@cuhk.edu.hk

In this performative lecture, AIDS activist videomaker and scholar, Alexandra Juhasz, will mine her own archives of movement-based media—of many times, aims, and their techno-formats—to display and discuss how humans have used media to better know, heal, make art, and community, together, across a range of pandemics including AIDS, Covid-19, and fake news.

Followed by Q&A with Prof. Nishant Shah (Digital Narratives Studio, CUHK), hosted by Dr. Sonia Wong (Women's Festival HK)

More about the speaker

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is the author/editor of scholarly books on AIDS including We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (with Ted Kerr, Duke, 2022) and Really Fake (with Nishant Shah and Ganaele Langlois, Minnesota, 2021).

Juhasz is also the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy as well as the feature fake documentaries The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) and The Owls (Dunye, 2010). She writes about her cultural and political commitments in scholarly and more public platforms including Hyperallergic, BOMB, MS, X-tra, and Lamda Literary Review.

🕙 Sunday 5 May 2024, 6-7:30 pm (HK time) 📍 Kino, Eaton House (1/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan, Kowloon)