Book release panel in honor of Marika Cifor’s *Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS* (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) May 17, 2022 at 12:00 pm PST on zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96409051468 *Featuring discussion panelists: * - Lisa Nakamura, Department of American Culture, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, and Digital Studies Institute*, *University of Michigan - Ann Cvetkovich, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies, Carleton University - Jennifer Douglas, Information School (Library, Archival and Information Studies), University of British Columbia - Sarah Nguyen, Information School, University of Washington *Panel Host and Moderator: * - Tonia Sutherland, Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Marika Cifor is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington and an adjunct faculty member in Gender, Women & Sexuality studies. Her new book *Viral Cultures *delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activisms alive. Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, *Viral* *Cultures* is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, Cifor explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age. Learn more about (and buy!) Marika's book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/viral-cultures -- Marika Cifor, PhD Assistant Professor Information School, University of Washington Box 352840 - Mary Gates Hall, Ste. 370 Seattle, WA 98195-2840 mcifor@uw.edu https://marikacifor.com/ pronouns: she/her/hers