The Interseminars Initiative is a Mellon Foundation-funded program at the Humanities Research Institute dedicated to advancing collaborative, cross-disciplinary graduate education. This current phase of the initiative supports faculty pairs in the codesign and co-teaching of graduate seminars, fostering collaborative teaching models and pedagogical innovation.
The following spring 2027 course, co-instructed by French professor Daniel Nabil Maroun, is open for registration.
FR 591 / LLS 596
Remembering and Reimagining HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Times
Mondays 2:00–4:20 p.m.
English Building 150
Co-instructors
- Daniel Nabil Maroun - Assistant Professor, French
- Nic Flores - Assistant Professor, Latina/ Latino Studies
This interdisciplinary course explores HIV/AIDS as both a biomedical condition and a socially constructed phenomenon. Through frameworks that examine the relationship between individuals, society, medicine, and technology, students will analyze how HIV/AIDS has been represented, contested, and experienced across time and space. Drawing from the humanities and social sciences, the course investigates the epidemic’s intersections with race, class, gender, and sexuality, while engaging with activism, policy, and cultural production. Emphasis is placed on critical analysis of historical texts, ethnographies, and media, fostering civic imagination and insight into how health crises reveal broader questions of identity, inequity, and social change.
Editor's note: A version of this story first appeared on the HRI website.
Email Danielle Sekel with any questions.