4A. HIV&AIDS Invited Speaker Session: Social, political & cultural aspects: An epidemic of memory: The role of HIV archives and histories in shaping our pasts, presents and futures - A round table discussion
Tracks
Track 1
| Monday, September 15, 2025 |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Hall L (Ground Level) |
Details
The global HIV response is under unprecedented attack, calling into question narratives of forward progress since the height of the Australian epidemic in the 1980s and 90s. What does it mean to think about where we’ve come from during a present in flux? And how might this moment provide an opportunity to rethink archives and archiving?
This ‘roundtable discussion panel’ will explore the question: how are HIV archives and the histories and memories they are assumed to simply contain mobilised in the present of the Australian HIV response? And how might HIV archives be mobilised differently?
The panel discussion will bring together historians, archivists, cultural scholars and those with first-hand experience of the histories of Australia’s HIV response, and the archiving of those histories.
Speaker
Associate Professor Daniel Marshall
Associate Professor & Enterprise Fellow in Sexualities & Genders
University Of South Australia
Panel Member
3:30 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Daniel Marshall (he/they) is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow in Sexualities and Genders at the University of South Australia. Previous positions include as Associate Professor at Deakin University where he established its Gender and Sexuality Studies programme, as a visiting scholar at CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies (City University of New York), and as President of the Australian Queer Archives.
Mr Colin Batrouney
Director Health Promotion & Community Engagement
Thorne Harbour Health
Panel Member
3:30 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Colin Batrouney has worked in HIV prevention and health promotion for over 4 decades. He was instrumental in the creation of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations Treatments Officers Network (TON) and regularly wrote on national and international developments in the area of new and emerging antiretroviral therapies for member organisations across Australia. He created the first HIV prevention initiative emanating from the (then) Victorian AIDS Council in 1985.
His work in health promotion has been recognised both nationally and internationally.
Mx Kate Manlik
Lecturer
James Cook University
Panel Member
3:30 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Kate Manlik is a Lecturer in Social Sciences at JCU in Cairns. Their doctoral research sought to problematise lesbian and queer women’s place in the Australian HIV landscape and AIDS epidemic. She is currently working on several collaborative projects surrounding sexual health, sexual violence, lesbian histories, and higher education policies.
Mr Beau Newham
HIV Testing Lead
National Association of People With HIV Australia (NAPWHA)
Panel Member
3:30 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Beau Newham is a dedicated HIV-positive community leader with extensive contributions to HIV advocacy in Australia and Southeast Asia. Beau currently manages NAPWHA's 'HIVtest.au' program, the first national HIV self-testing service in Australia.
He is also passionate about community history, and is the co-founder of the Queer Indonesia Archive - the first community run LGBTIQA+ communtiy archive in South-East Asia and is currently leading 'Tracing our Memories'' a material history review of people with HIV in Australia
Associate Professor Leigh Boucher
Associate Professor Of Modern History
Macquarie University
Panel Member
3:30 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Leigh Boucher is an Associate Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University, where his research explores questions of race, gender and sexuality in Australian political and social history. He has published work in Australian Historical Studies, History Australia, Cultural Studies, Victorian Studies, Postcolonial Studies and in numerous edited collections. His most recent co-authored book (w/ Arrow, Baird and Reynolds) is Personal Politics: Gender, Sexuality and the Remaking of Australian Citizenship (Monash 2024). He is currently working on a history of HIV/AIDs in and around Darlinghurst, which will be the topic of a podcast released with History Lab later this year.
HIV&AIDS Session Chair
Benjamin Riley
Head of Policy
ASHM Health
Nikki Sullivan
Project Development Manager
Thorne Harbour Health
