Workshop Programme
Censorship & Visual Culture
Ruling Images, Shaping Societies
12-13 December 2022
Online workshop hosted by De Montfort University Leicester, UK
All times in the schedule below are displayed in GMT / UTC+0
12 December 2022 (day 1)
09.00-09.15 INTRODUCTION
Claudio Monopoli and Gil Pasternak
09.15-10.45 PANEL I: CENSORING ART
09.15-09.30: Alessandro Grelli (Università degli Studi di Padova - Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Between Self-censorship and State control: the production of military panoramas in 19th-century France (1814-1865)
09.30-09.45: Paula Fayos-Perez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Censorship and Self-Censorship in Goya and Grandville: A Parallel Study
09.45-10.00: Discussion
10.00-10.15: Erin Duncan-O’Neill (University of Oklahoma)
Arrows and Quills: Daumier’s St. Sebastian and Press Censorship
10.15-10.30: Steffen Siegel (Folkwang University of the Arts)
The Reviewer as Censor? On the Political Premises for Producing Photo Books in East Germany
10.30-10.45: Discussion
10.45-12.00: Break
12.00-13.15 PANEL II: PARTICIPATION IN INSTITUTIONAL CENSORSHIP
12.00-12.15: Denis Skopin (Independent researcher)
With Ink and Blade: Editing Graduation Photo Albums in Stalin’s Russia
12.15-12.30: Abhinandan Sarkar (Jadavpur University)
From Print Media to “New” Media: Censoring Political Cartoons in India, 1975 to the Present
12.30-12.45: Ronnie Close (American University in Cairo)
Anonymous Interlopers: Egyptian State Censorship of Western Photography Books
12.45-13.15: Discussion
13 December 2022 (day 2)
09.00-10.30 PANEL III: PROTESTING CENSORSHIP
09.00-09.15: Silvia Genovese (University of Edinburgh)
Productive Censorship: The Circulation of Photographs from Kashmir After 5 August 2019
09.15-09.30: Camille Melissa Waring (University of Westminster)
Deghettoising of the Internet: Cleansing the Internet of transgressive sex sub-cultures
09.30-09.45: Discussion
09.45-10.00: Nelly Ating (Cardiff University School of Journalism)
Visual Politics: Amnesty International's Evasion of Apartheid Regime Censorship
10.00-10.15: Charlotte Reuß (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Terms of Use(rs): Strategies of Bypassing Censorship on Social Media
10.15-10.30: Discussion
10.30-12.00: Break
12.00-13.15 PANEL IV: CONTROVERSIAL CENSORSHIP
12.00-12.15: Clara Masnatta (Independent researcher)
Who’s afraid of Eva Perón? The manufactured controversy of Gisèle Freund’s photo reportage of Evita
12.15-12.30: Annebella Pollen (University of Brighton)
Art, Science, Sociology, Pornography? Jean Straker’s Gynaecography in the Dock
12.30-12.45: Deléne Human (University of Pretoria)
“Sex is sin!” A contrived landscape of Afrikaner morality: Prohibiting Moses Kottler’s commissioned “Man and Woman” (1957) during apartheid South Africa
12.45-13.15: Discussion
The language of the workshop will be English, and it will be hosted via Microsoft Teams
ORGANISERS
Claudio Monopoli | PhD Candidate in Historical, Geographical, Anthropological Studies, University of Padua, Italy.
Gil Pasternak | Professor of Photographic Cultures and Heritage, De Montfort University, UK.
For information on the aims of the event and the topics to be covered please read the workshop synopsis.
Should you have any questions, you can contact the organisers via visualcensorship@gmail.com.