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Thursday 19th June

David Belbin, author

Perchance to Dream: The Availability of Lambda Award Children’s and Young Adult titles in US public libraries Dr. Jennifer Weil Arns, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, USA

Defending Gay and Lesbian Young Adult Literature. Dr John B. Harer, Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology, East Carolina University, USA

“Who are We Protecting Them From?” Revisiting ‘Graphic Account’. Dr. Mel Gibson, Northumbria University, UK

The Regulation of Mobile Internet in South Africa Paul Laughton, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Friday 20th June

Barry Lyga, author

Not All Good or All Bad”: Listening to Student Perspectives on Book Banning Wendy Stephens, Buckhorn High School, US

Goodbye Sambo, hello Forever: changing critical attitudes to censorship in the 1960s and 1970s, Lucy Pearson, AHRC Collaborative PhD Student: Newcastle University and Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books, UK

Pre-censorship of authors and illustrators of children’s and young adult materials: The stifling of creative thought in anticipation of the marketplace
Cherie Givens, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada

Censorship in the Greek Tragedies’ adaptations for children. Dr Moula Evangelia, Public Education of Greece, Greece.
Young Adult Fiction in Malta ... Do We Dare? Dr Christopher Gruppetta, Merlin Library Ltd, Malta

The silences of desire: Prohibitions and tolerance in young adult Greek novels, Kaliakatsou Ioanna

Looking in the ‘problem’ basket: The translation of Australian cultural referents in children’s books, Helen T Frank, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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