Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. I'd like to draw your attention to the upcoming event for the launch of our book Viral Times: Reflections on the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics. To mark its launch, we have organised a launch event on May 24th, 2024, at 3pm UK time, see details below. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-hiv-to-covid-19-to-the-end-of-aids-book-... What are the relationships and differences between HIV and COVID-19? What can we learn from them for the future? Join the editors and authors of Viral Times to discuss these issues and much more on this launch event. At this events, the book editors will introduce the work and its context and three authors (Theodore Ted Kerr, Carmen Logie and Anna-Greta Mitterberger) will address the question: “What we have learned about society’s response to COVID-19, and how might this inform our approaches to reaching the 2030 goal of having no new HIV infections?”. Our speakers include: Theodore (ted) Kerr is a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based writer and organiser. He is co-author of We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (2022) with Alexandra Juhasz. He is a founding member of the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do? Anna-Greta Mittelberger is a sociologist and sex educator. In her postgraduate work in the field of gender studies, she qualitatively explored how individuals with vulvas experience their vulva, particularly in a sexual context, from an intersectional constructivist feminist perspective. She lives in Vienna and is passionate about de-tabooing research on sexuality in science. Carmen H. Logie holds a Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations and is a professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada. She is an adjunct professor at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health and a scientist at the Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity at UBC. Peter Aggleton has a background in the social sciences as applied to well- being, education and health. He holds senior professorial positions at The Australian National University, UNSW Sydney, and UCL. He is an adjunct professor in the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University in Melbourne. In addition to his academic work as a researcher, teacher, editor and writer, Peter has served as a senior adviser to several UN system organisations. Jaime García-Iglesias has degrees in literature and cultural studies and sociology. His work focuses on the sociology of sexual health as it intersects with technology and sexual and gender minorities. He currently holds a Chancellor’s Fellowship in the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. His most recent book is The Eroticising of HIV: Viral Fantasies (2022). Maurice Nagington is a lecturer, researcher and registered nurse at the University of Manchester in the UK whose interdisciplinary work leverages critical social science perspectives to address health issues such as death, palliative care, cancer and chemsex.