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24th ut banned books vigil program, 2021 [PDF]
UT Banned Book Vigil - Sign-in Sheet [LINK]
9:00 a.m.- 9:20 a.m. “Creating Freely—A First Amendment Right,” Paulette
D. Kilmer, Communication, “Banned Books Week Announcements,” Arjun Sabharwal, University
Libraries [Watch the video on YouTube]
9:30 a.m.- 9:50 a.m. “The Ban on Walt Whitman’s Poetry,” Ayendy Bonifacio,
English. [Watch the video on YouTube]
10:00 a.m.- 10:20 p.m. “Tracking Efforts to Ban ‘Critical Race Theory’: Where Do We Stand?” Renee Heberle, Director, MA Program and Honors Advisor, Political Science and Public Administration. [Watch the video on YouTube]
10:30 - 11:00 [Break]
11:00 a.m. -11:20 a.m. “Body Facts (poems) and book banning in Korea,” Joey S. Kim, English. [Watch the video on YouTube]
11:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. “Critical Thinking on the History of Women,” Warren Woodberry, Toledo author. [Watch the video on YouTube]
Noon-12:45 p.m. “The Sacred Twinship: Not the Satanism Missionaries Imagined?” Dr. Linda Smith Lecture, Barbara Alice Mann, Jessup Scott Honors College. [Watch the video on YouTube]
1:00 - 1:30 [lunch break]
1:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m. Express Yourself Freely Jeopardy!
2:00 p.m.-2:40 p.m. “New Voices in HIV in the Rust Belt,” Holly Hey, Theater and Film; Allison Day, Disability Studies, and Lee Fearnside, producer of HIV in the Rust Belt (Video). [Watch the video on YouTube]
2:50 - 3:00 [10-minute break]
3:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m. “Challenging Queer Experience In the Dream House,”
Sharon Barnes, Women’s and Gender
Studies. [Watch the video on YouTube]
3:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m. “Educating the masses at home and abroad; Malala
Yousafzai of Pakistan,” Saadia Farooq, Scholar and Book Aficionado. [Watch the video on YouTube]
4 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. "Banned Songs - You can't sing that!" Maryann “Mar.” Harman. [Watch the video on YouTube]
Return to the UT Banned Books Home Page
UT Banned Book Vigil - Sign-in Sheet [LINK]
The University of Toledo Banned Books Coalition:
Paulette D. Kilmer (Coordinator), UT Communication Department, pkilmer@utnet.utoledo.edu
Arjun Sabharwal, University Libraries, arjun.sabharwal@utoledo.edu
Sumitra Srinivasan, UT Communication Department, sumitra.srinivasan@utoledo.edu
Laura Mitchell (UT Alumna), UT Alumna, lknisel@hotmail.com
Josie Schreiber, Reading Education Advocate, themomillennial@gmail.com
Saadia Farooq (UT Alumna), saadia@muslimworldtoday.org
Ali Immani, President Graduate Students Association, Ali.imami@utoledo.edu