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SUMMER UPDATE
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From left: Freedom of Expression Awards Journalism Fellows Zaina Erhaim (2016), Zaheena Rasheed (2017) and Wendy Funes (2018) in the Index booth at the Defend Media Freedom conference in July.
This week, CEO Jodie Ginsberg circulated an update on Index's activities over the past several months. It's been busy!
As Index gets its tent ready for another festival this weekend ([link removed]) , I wanted to share some highlights from the past few months and give you a sneak peek of what we have in store for the autumn.
Today, we’ll be gathering festival goers around the campfire for a series ofuncensored folk tales at the Cambridge Folk Festival, where we are this year’s talks partner. Cambridge comes hot on the heels of our story-telling sessions at Latitude where writers including Scarlett Curtis, Max Porter and Jemima Foxtrot entertained crowds with wild stories.
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MEDIA FREEDOM
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** Trolls and insults: Azerbaijan's exiled media increasingly under fire ([link removed])
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After the total capture of the media environment inside the country, the government of Ilham Aliyev has turned its attention to silencing critics in exile.
The morning of 9 April did not promise to be out of the ordinary for Sevinc Osmanqizi, an Azerbaijani journalist based in the suburbs of Washington DC. She started her morning routine by making a fresh pot of coffee and readying her two sons for school. Prior to starting the daily broadcasts of her YouTube-based OsmanqiziTV channel, she checked her messages, which included links sent by friends to a broadcast that had aired a few days earlier on the recently-launched Real TV in Azerbaijan.
Also read:
Russia: Journalists find themselves under increasing threats of physical violence ([link removed])
Turkey: Journalists facing unprecedented surge of physical assaults ([link removed])
Ukraine: Violence is the tool of choice against journalists ([link removed])
BANNED BOOKS WEEK
22-28 September
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** A short history of comic book censorship in America ([link removed])
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Nothing defined 20th-century American culture quite like the comic book. Comics in their popular, serialised form emerged in 1930s New York City, mass-produced by recent immigrants and their children who had grown up reading one-strip funny cartoons. The early success of Superman (the concoction of two young Jewish immigrants, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster) spurred the rapid growth of the comics industry. By the mid-1940s, many small-time comic publishers were churning out hundreds of series and characters of all genres.
Soon after comics’ meteoric rise in popularity, the industry drew criticism. Comics were never regarded as “high art” despite the aspirations of many who worked in the industry. They were unapologetically for children and adolescents, produced as entertainment for the lower classes. Many of the comics genres that rose to extreme popularity in the 1930s, 40s and 50s revolved around crime, ghosts and ghouls, aliens, and pulpy romance. Notably, EC Comics started by Bill Gaines was famous for Crime Does Not Pay, a comic that published macabre tales that blurred the line between good and evil. Gaines inherited the publishing business from his father, who had died suddenly in a boating accident, and EC comics became synonymous with the seediest corners of the comics industry.
Save the Date
26 Sept: Truly Uncensored? LGBTQ+ Young Adult Literature ([link removed])
23 Sept: John Osborne’s Under Plain Covers ([link removed])
23 Sept: Walled In: Writers consider walls in literature and in our lives ([link removed])
More events to be added soon ([link removed])
EVENTS
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** THIS WEEKEND / Index at the Cambridge Folk Festival
Folk tales for grown ups ([link removed])
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Join Index on Censorship for a weekend of talks and performances in the Flower Garden at Cambridge Folk Festival (1-4 August 2019).
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** 7 September / Symposium
The paradox of creative constraints ([link removed])
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This public event will reflect on the paradox of creative constraints in contemporary cinema from the Middle East – a day of film screenings and panel discussions with filmmakers, funders and programmers, including some of the most innovative rising talents as well as established experts.
The symposium will offer new insights into filmmaking from the region, revitalising debates on cinematic creativity in sites of conflict and crisis in the Middle East and beyond.
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