2024 Utoledo Banned Books Vigil, Event Program
UToledo Banned Books Coalition Website
27th Annual UT Banned Books Week Vigil Speakers
Thursday (September 26, 2024) Carlson Library, 1st Floor
9:00 “Welcome,” Thomas Atwood, Dean of University Libraries
Bagels, coffee, water & light treats all day!
9:30 “Crawling into my soul,’ Flannery O’Connor’s faith and fiction.” Jodi Jameson (Nursing Librarian, University Libraries)
10:00 “Banning desire - How love poetry gets turned,” Jonie McIntire, Lucas County Poet Laureate.
10:30 “Gender Queer: Banning ‘woke’ gender.” Sharon Barnes (Chair, Women’s & Gender Studies) and Amber Rank (Student, , Women’s & Gender Studies)
11:00 “Shocking! Disgusting! The worst advertising of the century!” [video link]
11:30 “Banned books un-American,” Warren Woodberry, Toledo Author and Educator
12 p.m. “The silent treatment: Reading, writing, resisting,” Dr. Linda Smith Lecture: Jim Ferris, poet, performance artist, and disability scholar (Disability Studies)
Little sandwiches, chips, light lunch, cookies!
1:00 Banned books Jeopardy!
1:30 “The constitution, electoral college, & silencing the people,” Barbara Mann, Professor Emerita (Jesup Scott Honors College).
2:00 “Banning books or eroding children’s sense of identity?” Saadia Farooq (Graduate Student, Bowling Green State University)
2:30 "Guess why this book was banned!” Autumn Vasquez, writer, the Toledo Free Press.
3:00 Banned books that became movies: Gender, censorship, and cultural impact,” Jeanne Kusina (Women's & Gender Studies)
3:30 “Bad taste? Forbidden T-shirts,” Paulette D. Kilmer, (retired professor, Communication)
Pizza and Soda
4:00 “Censoring imagination: Is science fiction and fantasy bad for us?” Daniel Compora (Professor, English).
4:30 “Balanced literacy banned,” Risa Cohen, Director of Sing into Reading.