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UT Banned Books Coalition

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23rd ut banned books vigil program, 2020

UT Banned Book Vigil - Sign-in Sheet [LINK]

*NOTE: The host will announce a different code word at the end of each presentation that YouTube and
Facebook monitors will also be typing into the chat. The students must put the code to prove they attended.

 

Monday, September 28     Facebook Live [LINK]     YouTube Live [LINK]

11 a.m.    Introduction by Dr. Paulette Kilmer (Day 1), University of Toledo, Communication

11: 15 a.m. "The Hate You Give"    Monita Mungo, University of Toledo, Sociology and Anthropology

12 p.m.    "Studying and Struggling: The Works of Elaine Brown and Assata Shakur"     Carla J. Pattin, University of Toledo,
Jesup Scott Honors College

1 p.m.    "Banned Books Jeopardy"     Hosted by Dr. Paulette Kilmer, University of Toledo, Communication, with Saadia Farooq and Sumitra Srinivasan, University of Toledo, Communication

Tuesday, September 29     Facebook Live [LINK]     YouTube Live [LINK]

12 p.m.    Introduction by Dr. Paulette Kilmer (Day 2), University of Toledo, Communication

12:15 p.m.     "HIV in the Rust Belt Project"     Holly Hey, University of Toledo, Theatre and Film;  Dr. Ally Day, Disability Studies; and Lee Fearnside, co-producer of HIV in the Rust Belt

1 p.m.     “Banned: Female Leaders of the Eastern Woodlands”     Dr. Barbara Mann, University of Toledo, Jesup Scott Honors College

Wednesday, September 30     Facebook Live [LINK]     YouTube Live [LINK]

12 p.m.    Introduction by Dr. Paulette Kilmer (Day 3), University of Toledo, Communication

12:15 p.m.   "Old Man Trump"     Risa Cohen, Creative Director of Sing into Reading

1 p.m.     "Girls Knight out at the Franklin Park Mall with Pandora, Lilith and Eve",  narrated by The Stranger. From Woodberry's book "For We Are Strangers" by Warren Woodberry, Toledo author. Related videos (from the presenter's personal collection):

Thursday, October 1     Facebook Live [LINK]     YouTube Live [LINK]

12 p.m.    Introduction by Dr. Paulette Kilmer (Day 4), University of Toledo, Communication

12:15 p.m.     Dr. Linda Smith Lecture:  "Freedom of Thought and the Ministry of Truth"     Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain (pre-recorded presentation followed by live Q&A), University of Toledo, Professor Emeritus (Humanities & Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery) and Trustee Emeritus.

1 p.m.     "20 Years of Censored Children’s Books"     Dr. Sharon Barnes, Chair, University of Toledo Women and Gender Studies

2 p.m.     "Accessing the ‘Right’ to Read in Prison"     Dr. Renee Heberle, University of Toledo,  Political Science, Co-Director, Program., Law and Social Thought, Coordinator, UT Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

3 p.m.     "Brilliant Banned Tunes"     Risa Cohen, Creative Director of Sing into Reading; and Dr. Ed Lingan, University of Toledo, Theatre and Film, with their children: Jude and Clint

Risa Cohen, Ed Lingan, with Jude and Clint

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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
Laura Mitchell (UT Alumna), UT Alumna, lknisel@hotmail.com,
Josie Schreiber (Toledo Love Mobile Children's Library Founder), themomillennial@gmail.com
Sumitra Srinivasan, UT Communication Department, sumitra.srinivasan@utoledo.edu
Saadia Farooq (UT Alumna), saadia@muslimworldtoday.org

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