This half-day seminar brings together new research on the hidden objects of censorship, including the history of underground cinema, the anarchic responses of the art world, and the banning of infamous books. From Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Deep Throat, the paintings of artists like Richard Larter and the five state court cases involving Portnoy’s Complaint, censorship both hid culture from view and caused enormous public scandals.

What exactly was it that disturbed the censors? What difference did restrictions make? Would such literature, art and film be assessed differently now? Join our speakers on some revealing excursions into what it was that we weren’t allowed to know.

Speakers:

Professor Jill Julius Matthews, The Australian National University

Ms Deborah Clark, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery

Professor Nancy Paxton, 2009 Fulbright Senior Scholar, The Australian National University

Dr Nicole Moore, Visiting Fellow, Research School of the Humanities, The Australian National University

FREE ADMISSION