This event, hosted by School of Life and Medical Sciences is part of our 2021 LGBT+ History Month events programme. In this event Jaime García-Iglesias discusses the social similarities and differences between the AIDS pandemic and the current COVID-19 crisis. Jaime examines how current discourse about COVID-19 remembers (or ignores) HIV/AIDS as an antecedent, and questions the political implications of remembering. Joined by Dr Maurice Nagington and Dr Shivani Sharma the panel explores thought provoking questions such as: How is memory political? Whose lives matter and are remembered and whose don’t? How can the AIDS epidemic and its aftermath help us think about a post-COVID future?