As two historians of the AIDS crisis in the United States, Sarah Schulman and Michael O'Loughlin grapple with how to responsibly attend to the suffering wrought by this disease in an often indifferent society. But they also unsettle the histories traditionally told about AIDS. Whose contributions are championed? Whose voices are erased? And where does religion fit into this story?

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. Her award-winning 20th book, LET THE RECORD SHOW: A Political History of ACT UP New York 1987 – 1993, was published in 2021.

Michael J. O'Loughlin is the author of "Hidden Mercy: Catholics, AIDS, and Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear," host of the podcast series "Plague," and national correspondent for the Jesuit magazine America.

Moderated by Mark Lambert, Ph.D., Divinity School Teaching Fellow

This event is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Pozen Family Center for Human Rights and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.