World AIDS Day 2012 Photo Exhibit “30 Years/30 Lives: Documenting a Pandemic”

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)