All Cal State LA undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit a 500-word essay in response to the question: What are the consequences of banning books? Submission should be emailed to Dr. Sarah Minslow at sminslo@calstatela.edu by October 1, 2023 at 11:59pm
Hear from the Experts! The Cal State LA community is invited to attend a panel with award-winning author and illustrator, Joe Cepeda, and the Principal Librarian for LA Public Libraries Youth Services Division and author of Intellectual Freedom for Teens, Kelly Tyler. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Sarah Minslow, Assistant Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
4:30pm-6:00pm
University Library Community Room
READ OUT BANNED BOOKS! Celebrate our freedom to read by stopping by to read or listen to excerpts from some of the most challenged and banned books in the country. A microphone and speakers will be set up in the corridor outside the Library. Email sminslo@calstatela.edu if you’d like to sign up for a 3-min slot to read from your favorite banned or challenged book.
10am-3pm
Outside the University Library
Become an ADVOCATE! Learn from experts how to resist pressures to ban or remove books from the curriculum and libraries. This is an excellent opportunity for educators and librarians to share their experiences with censorship and brainstorm ways to push back against it.
4:30-6:00pm
University Library Community Room