On World AIDS Day Paul Attinello speaks on AIDS & COVID in the World
The political world of AIDS is both powerfully outlined and heavily charged with emotional projections: if hospitals, boardrooms, and streets have become battlegrounds, they reflect deeper battles around the terrors of illness and death. We will take a more political approach to these cultural complexes and connect them to our sometimes very different, sometimes very similar, response to COVID-19.
Bio: Paul Attinello is a Jungian analyst in private practice and a senior lecturer at Newcastle University who has also taught at the University of Hong Kong and as a guest professor at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA and diploma as an analyst from the C. G. Jung-Institute in Zürich. He has lived and worked on four continents, has been involved in HIV groups and programs, creative and academic events and projects, and is a co-founder of the current Psychosocial Wednesdays series. He is published in essay collections, journals, and reference works, writing on contemporary music, HIV/ AIDS, and philosophical and psychological topics. He is co-editor of collections on the Darmstadt avant-garde and on music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
