Possible topics include:
- motivations vs justifications for censorship
(e.g. were Nazi campaigns against ‘degenerate art’ actually about aesthetics?)
- power dynamics in censorship
(does the term ‘self-censorship’ misrepresent the source of censorship?)
- censorship’s production of discourse
(how are Critical Race Theory bans attempting to alter understandings of history?)
- defining the parameters of censorable material
(what is ‘pornography’?)
- geographic, cultural, historical differences in censorship
(how does censorship of Chinese-funded journalism abroad vs domestically compare?)
- new concepts in censorship
(how did ‘fake news’ go from describing deceptive information to justifying censorship?)
- new censors
(how have ‘fact checkers’ led to social media censoring science in the covid-19 info war?)
- speculative futures of censorship
(will capitalist net-partiality breed new forms of censorship?)

Please send an abstract of your proposed presentation (200–300 words) and a brief bio to Dr L. Acadia (acadia@ntu.edu.tw) by Sept 7, 2021.

The evaluation committee—Professors Acadia (NTU), Santiago Juan-Navarro (Florida International University), and Greg Simons (Uppsala University)—will evaluate the abstracts and set the conference program. This conference is hosted and sponsored by National Taiwan University’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, with additional funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology.