Conference Director: Craig Kallendorf

"Silence and Expression" addressed the strategies by which expression is facilitated or restrained--who speaks, sings, paints, under what circumstancs and constraints, for which purpose(s).

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Allen Frantzen, Loyola University (Chicago), "Who Gets to Talk about the War: Civilians, Soldiers, and Sacrifice in Fiction and Film about the Great War"
Don Kulick, Stockholm University, "Problematic Childhood Sexuality"
Sander L. Gilman, University of Chicago, "The Angry Film-Maker: Jurek Becker Imagining Jews in the GDR"
Page Dubois, University of California at San Diego, "The Silence of the Slaves"
Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve University, "On the Political Economy of Creative Expression"

Sandy Stone, University of Texas at Austin, "Your Words, My Silent Mouth"

Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania, "'La Trahison des clercs' Revisited: Intellectuals and Censorship in the Late Middle Ages"
Cyndia Clegg, Pepperdine University, "Censorship and the Rhetoric of Silence in Early Seventeenth-Century England"
Andrea Friedman, Washington University (St. Louis), "The People's Forum: Democracy and Strategies of Censorship"
Lea Jacobs, University of Wisconsin, "Towards a Cultural History of Film Censorship"