![]() ![]() Please join us for a conversation with Schulman about the history of HIV/AIDS activism, the urgency of public history, and the lessons of ACT UP and the ACT UP Oral History Project for activists and scholars today, moderated by Stephen Vider, director of the Cornell Public History Initiative. For over two decades, Sarah Schulman has worked to document and preserve this history, through the ACT UP Oral History Project, the documentary United in Anger, and most recently her book Let the Record Show (forthcoming from Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux this May)-a major exploration and reassessment of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture, based on over two hundred interviews. ![]() Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it tookon the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. ![]()
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