Forbidden Fruit: The censorship of literature and information for young people

Date: 19th & 20th June 2008
Venue: Southport, UK,

The conference will focus on the censorship of print, electronic and other literary and information resources for young people.

Suggested themes include:

• Young people, the Internet and censorship
• Access to citizenship, health and other information for young people
• Pressure groups and censorship
• The role of information literacy
• Publishers and censorship
• Media literacy
• Authors for young people and censorship
• Media reaction to censorship
• Graphic novels and manga and crossover novels
• Library selection policies
• The history of censorship