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What drives the desire for censorship? What cultural indicators fuel the distrust of books?
Author, professor and intellectual freedom scholar Dr. Emily JM Knox will explore this question and more at the 2024 Womack Lecture Series, “Book Banning and the Culture Wars,” hosted by the Fresno State Library. Knox, whose most recent books include “Foundations of Intellectual Freedom,” “Book Banning in 21st Century America” and “Foundations of Information Ethics,” will address how the removal, relocation and restriction of books is now a widespread practice among certain communities across the country, amounting in a de facto form of censorship which affects how society understands the practice and politics of reading.
Date: Monday, March 18
Time: 6 - 7 p.m.
Location: Library Ellipse Gallery, 2nd Floor
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For more information or special accommodation, email heatherparish@mail.fresnostate.edu.
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