Brett J. Gary, "Censorship Lives On in the US: the Ghost of Anthony Comstock", mercredi 4 octobre, 17h30-19h

L'équipe HDEA de la Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université a le grand plaisir de vous convier à la première séance du séminaire annuel "Censure(s) : histoire et enjeux contemporains", mercredi 4 octobre de 17h30 à 19h au centre Serpente, salle S001. L'inscription n'est pas requise mais il est recommandé de se munir de sa carte professionnelle pour accéder au site.

Nous entendrons Brett J. Gary, Associate Professor à NYU Steinhardt, department of Media, Culture and Communication, sur "Censorship Lives On in the US: the Ghost of Anthony Comstock".

Trained as an American studies scholar, Brett Gary’s most recent research and teaching takes a historical approach to media and political communications with an emphasis on cultural battles over censorship of artistic expression, sexual information, and narrative representations of the nation's past. Gary’s book, Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America's First Sexual Revolution (Stanford University Press, August 2021) is a study of U.S. censorship battles from the 1920s-1950s, and explores how civil libertarians, birth control activists and feminists, journalists, publishers, public health activists, and the ACLU struggled to curb cultural and sexual censorship.