Posted in HIV/AIDS on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Some points of interest taken off the daily HIV/AIDS report from Kaisernetwork.org:
As has been well publicized in various outlets, the Merck Corporation called off its AIDS vaccine trials - a major disappointment to AIDS prevention efforts. The vaccine trials were found to be ineffective in preventing HIV infection or preventing the progression of HIV infection [...]
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Education, HIV/AIDS, Institutional theory, International and Comparative Education, Organizations, Science and Technology, Social Theory, Sociology, Systems Theory on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I went to a number of sessions over the last two days of the conference, but I’ll only mention a few.
1. The very last session I attended at the conference was on Cultural Sociology and Disciplinary Change, chaired by a very droll and funny Jeffrey Alexander presiding over a standing-room only crowd who came [...]
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Education, HIV/AIDS, International and Comparative Education, Sociology on August 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Lesson of the day: don’t put a banana in your bookbag. “I’ll eat it later,” I thought, congratulating myself on the foresight of bringing a little snack to keep me going through the day’s sessions. Well, I got home a couple of hours ago and saw the gruesome murder victim when I decided to plan [...]
Posted in Asian Studies, Conferences, Cultural Politics, Education, HIV/AIDS, Institutional theory, New York City, Politics of Identity, Social Theory, Sociology on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Thought I’d take running notes on how the American Sociological Association conference is proceeding - for me, that is. I could wait and do a single wrap-up once the whole thing packs up and leaves town, but I probably just won’t remember anything. So, it’s just as well to jot things down as they take [...]
Posted in HIV/AIDS on August 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A classmate of mine, much younger than me, asked, “Yeah, maybe attitudes toward gays have become better, but really, how many of you would eat from the same salad as an HIV positive person”?
Funny, I felt myself suddenly transported back to 1986, as the lights swirled around me….
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