In
honor of World AIDS Day 2012, you are invited to attend “30 Years/30 Lives: Documenting a
Pandemic ,” a photography exhibit, and related events presented
on St. John’s University’s Queens campus by Kimberly
Vrudny, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Systemic Theology at
the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.
World AIDS Day Common Hour
Lecture
“Beyond ‘Doing No Harm’: Photographic Ethics in the Age of
AIDS”
Monday, December 3, 2012
1:50–3:15 p.m.
Bent Hall, Room 277A
Opening Reception and Meet the
Artist
“30 Years/30 Lives: Documenting a Pandemic”
Monday, December 3, 2012
4:30–6:00 p.m.
Yeh Art Gallery, Sun Yat Sen Hall
The exhibit will be on display December 3, 2012–January 31,
2013.
As the world community approached its 30th year of the HIV/AIDS
pandemic, Dr. Vrudny traveled to South Africa, Thailand and Mexico
to photograph 30 individuals whose lives have intersected with the
disease — through care for or loss of a loved one, engagement in
humanitarian response or acquisition of an infection
personally.
For more information, please contact Jessica R.
Cook, Associate Director of Academic Service-Learning at:
cookj@stjohns.edu;
(718) 390-4357.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Academic
Service-Learning, the Center for Global Development, the Department
of Theology and the Campus Activities Board (CAB)