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Arts & Social Changes

Professor Rachel Potter and Professor Tamar Garb · Gresham College

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About

The right to free expression is severely threatened in many places in the world, yet it has also never been so passionately defended. This lecture focuses on the recent history of banned literature. It considers the changing nature of literary censorship, arguments in defence of free expression, why literary writers have so frequently pushed the boundaries of the acceptable, and the impact of technology on censorship and free speech.

Lectures

  1. Banned Books and Freedom of Expression 2025-03-12 · Audio
  2. Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa 2025-03-25 · Audio

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Taught by
Professor Rachel Potter, Professor Tamar Garb
Year
2025
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics, History, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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