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The Forbidden Fruit conference focussed on the censorship of print, electronic and other literary and information resources for young people.

Following on from this conference, there will a conference focussing on health information for young people in Chester on 23rd and 24th June 2009. Click here for further details.

It was an opportunity for practitioners from libraries, information services and education, researchers from a range of disciples, publishers, authors and policymakers from all sectors interested in to meet, network and share experiences.

Topics included:
  • Graphic novels
  • Gay & lesbian fiction
  • Students' perspectives on book banning
  • Attitudes towards censorship in different cultures
  • The history of censorship
  • Internet and mobile censorship
  • The availability of controversial titles
  • Pre-censorship
  • Translations and adaptations
  • Professional attitudes towards censorship.
The conference proceedings are now available in print or as an e-book from BrownWalker Press


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JohnLindsay Imperial War Museum 0 May 5 2009, 4:49 AM EDT by JohnLindsay
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Found another case which amounts to censorship. The Imperial War Museum has age restrictions on young people seeing things to do with genocide, holocaust and so forth. I watched a young person being excluded and his father trying to explain why he wasn't going to be allowed to go in.

This is a different sort of matter from some of the others but I wonder on the body of theory, never mind knowledge, which has allowed for a decision such as this?
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JohnLindsay Binche 0 Feb 2 2009, 8:33 AM EST by JohnLindsay
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not quite literature, but in a town in Wallonia there is an exhibition dedicated to the phallus, masks, carnival, which in Britain would be closed down by the police the day it opened. Yet in Wallonia, in Binche, there are young kids playing around, making masks, and no one turns a wink. There is an exhibition on, in french, because it is wallonia, crossing genres, with the carnival, masque theme, challenging every idea of fixed sexuality you can imagine.

Which simply goes to show how complicated the matter of what is culturally a norm and what is prohibited actually is.

Last nite on radio was a rattigan play, and I remember the winslow boy at school, and the silence surrounding rattigan, just to show that things change
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JohnLindsay knowbot 4 Dec 11 2008, 2:32 PM EST by Anonymous
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I wonder whether we could use this wonderful adventure to start a knowledge gathering exercise on the theme, and thus build something?

The first thing I discovered after this thought is the Children's Literature Association which produces a Quarterly, which is in our library, and I presume available electronically, so scuttle off and grep

Now we can work on what they have had to say about the forbidden fruit theme?:

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The second thought I found was the link between film and literature. I had found a book in the BFI bookshop on children's film and censorship, but I hadn't thought to take down the detail, as I wasn't that interested at that stage, so back to the BFI, or try grepping the concept.
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