CENSORSHIP, POLITICS AND OPPRESSION
Place: University of Gdańsk, Department of Languages (Wita Stwosza St. 55, Gdańsk)
Room 3.67 (2nd floor)
DAY 1: SATURDAY, 11th March
10:30 – 10:50 REGISTRATION (Hall of the Building)
10:50 – 11:00 CONFERENCE OPENING
11:00 – 12:30 SESSION 1, Chair: Marta Maciejewska
FIGURES/CHARACTERS:
Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk, University of Łódź, Poland: The Figure of an Ideal Censor in the View of Contextual Dependence of Utterances (on the Basis of Bulletins of the Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows 1945–1956)
Christopher “Irish Goat” Knodel, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA: Censorship, Politics, and Oppression: Jan Tschichold—A Case Study in The New Typography
Tomasz Mróz, University of Zielona Góra, Poland: Polish Studies on Plato under the Oppression of Censorship
12:30 – 13:00 COFFEE BREAK
13:00 – 15:00 SESSION 2, Chair: Wanda Dittrich
FILM AND THEATRE:
Joanna Kocemba, University of Warsaw, Poland: Politically Engaged Participatory Theatre
Mariusz Wirski, University of Gdańsk, Poland: Contestation on the Carpet: Cultural, Political, and Sociological Transformations in the Cinema of the United States after the New Hollywood
Anusuya A. Paul, New Horizon College Marathalli, Bangalore, India: Resisting Political Oppression Destabilising Communal Frontiers: Rabijita Gogoi’s Theatre versus Insurgency in Assam, India
Marta Maciejewska, University of Gdańsk, Poland: Andrzej Wajda’s Afterimage: Censorship as a Film Topic
15:00 – 17:00 LUNCH BREAK
17:00 – 19:00 SESSION 3, Chair: Wojciech Owczarski
LITERATURE:
Wanda Dittrich, University of Security, Gdańsk: Oppressions of a Female Ego in the Essays by Virginia Woolf
Sondeep Kandola, Liverpool John Moores University, UK: (Self) Censorship and Salomé: Oscar Wilde’s European Gambit
Sihem Arfaoui, ISSH University of Jendouba, Tunisia, and Northern Borders University, KSA: Making One’s Way out of a Superimposed ‘Surgery:’ Shahriar Mandanipour’s Censoring an Iranian Love Story
Karolina Drozdowska, University of Gdańsk, Poland: Books on Trial—Norwegian Law against Pornography in Literature (Mykle and Bjørneboe Cases of 1957 and 1966)
19:00 – BANQUET (Department of Social Sciences, Bażyńskiego St. 4, Gdańsk)
DAY 2: SUNDAY, 12th March
10:30 – 11:30 SESSION 4, Chair: Magdalena Bazylewicz
ART/GALLERIES:
Aleksandra Cieslar, King’s College, London, UK: Art as Political Statement—the Phenomenon of Banksy’s Street Art
Ceciel Brouwer, University of Leicester, UK: Art Museums and Galleries: Negotiating Self-Censorship and Ethical Decision Making
11:30 – 12:00 COFFEE BREAK
12:00 – 13:30 SESSION 5, Chair: Ceciel Brouwer
VARIOUS FACES OF CENSORSHIP:
Paulo Jorge Fernandes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal: Censorship, Politics and Satirical Press in Portugal (1834–1910)
Magdalena Bazylewicz, SWPS University of Social Sciences, Warsaw, Poland: Censorship at American Colleges and Universities
Karolina Baraniak, University of Wrocław, Poland: The Media and Pinochet’s Regime in Chile (1973–1990). Case Study
13:30 – 15:30 LUNCH BREAK
15:30 – 17:30 SESSION 6, Chair: Paulo Jorge Fernandes
MEDIA:
Luz Andrea De León Ramírez, University of Guanajuato México: The Illusory Free Speech: Three Cases of Online Censorship in Mexico
Marcin Rau, University of Łódź, Poland: Between Political Correctness and Censorship: The Ethics of Journalism in a Post-Truth Era
Magdalena Buchowska, University of Gdańsk, Poland: East StratCom Task Force: EU Fight against Fake News
Michał Przeperski, Polish Academy of Sciences & Institute of National Remembrance: Could It Be Possible to Be a Journalist without Censorship? Polish People’s Republic Journalist after the Turn of 1956
17:30 – 18:00 COFFEE BREAK
18:00 – 19:00 SESSION 7, Chair: Magdalena Buchowska
CENSORSHIP AND MIGRATION:
Alicja Skrzypczak, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Poland: Misinformation Effect as a Form of Censorship in the Process of Creating Migrant Identity. Migrant Memory and Ontological Security
Natalia Olszewska, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland: When Can We Start to Talk about Censorship? Poland in British Press in the 30s.
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