Censorship, Limits and Control in Creative Practice’, which is joint-organised by Edge Hill University and the MeCCSA practice session. The symposium investigates the impact and role of censorship for media and creative practice.

The symposium will take place at Edge Hill University (Ormskirk, outside of Liverpool) on the 15th April 2011.

Keynote speakers are:

• Prof. Julian Petley, Brunel University: Freedoms of Expressions versus the Need for Protection. An Overview of Current Laws and Regulations
• Prof. David Nash, Oxford Brookes University: Models of censorship. The example of blasphemy
• Prof. Dennis Hayes, University of Derby: Fear and Self-Censorship in the Academy

Other papers include:

• Esra Arsan, ?stanbul Bilgi University: Killing me softly with his words. The impact of censorship and self-censorship on Turkish journalists
• Jennifer Skellington, Oxford Brookes University: Silencing sounds – an investigation into the censorship of music criticism within the English broadsheet press from 1981 to 2011.
• Prof. Tomasz Malinowski, Edge Hill University and Lincoln University: Film-makers and censorship in communist Poland

The day will start at 9.30am and will finish at 5pm.

If you would like to register, please contact the symposium administrator Debbie Chadford [email protected].