HIV 2013 - The 2nd International HIV Social Science and Humanities Conference

The conference will be opened on 7 September at 5 pm, with opening addresses by Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of HIV and is now President of the IAS, and Didier Fassin, whose work on HIV in Africa and France has had a profound influence in social sciences in HIV.
The conference had two goals; to provide a venue for social scientists and humanities scholars to share their work across disciplines (which heretofore had not existed) and explore the relationship between social science and biomedicine. Comments from delegates suggest that these goals were met: people spoke of the intellectual challenges of the conference: some said it was “life changing”, others agreed that it was “energising”, some others that it “provided a safe space where we can talk to each other”, while one other that it was “a rewarding and stimulating event.
There will be a reception immediately after for all delegates in the main foyer of the conference venue or, weather permitting, on the terrace.
Each day will begin with a plenary session featuring two internationally-renowned speakers, a total of six drawn from France, Eastern Europe, the United States of America and South Africa. The speakers are as follows:
Nathalie Bajos
Alisher B. Latypov
Jean-Paul Moatti
Relebohile Moletsane
Anne-Marie Moulin
Ann Swidler