[Libs-Or] Potentially low-cost program opportunity

[Katie Anderson]

Hi! I recently learned that one of Oregon Humanities' Conversation Project topics in on censorship in literature. It is too late to schedule this topic for Banned Books Week this year, but I asked and learned that this topic will be available during Banned Books Week 2013. Applications for Conversation Project programs taking place during Banned Books Week next year will be accepted between April and May 2013 (they schedule roughly 6 months in advance). Also keep in mind that this topic is always relevant, not just during the last week of September!

Some details are below in the email I received from Oregon Humanities. You can learn more about this and other Conversation Project topics online at: http://oregonhumanities.org/programs/section/conversation-project/.

Questions? Contact:
Annie Kaffen
Program Coordinator
Oregon Humanities
(503) 241-0543 ext. 116
(800) 735-0543
a.kaffen at oregonhumanities.org<mailto:a.kaffen at oregonhumanities.org>


Katie Anderson, Library Development Services
* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *
Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
katie.anderson at state.or.us<mailto:katie.anderson at state.or.us>, 503-378-2528


From: Annie (Dubinsky) Kaffen [mailto:a.kaffen at oregonhumanities.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 4:07 PM
To: Katie Anderson
Subject: Follow up re: Libs-Or post on banned books

A quick intro to Oregon Humanities
We're a statewide nonprofit, and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and one of the five statewide cultural partners of the Oregon Cultural Trust. Our mission is to connect Oregonians to ideas that changes lives and transform communities.

A quick intro to the program
Conversation Project programs last sixty to ninety minutes, and are designed to improve understanding of diverse perspectives on a given subject. All discussions are led by humanities experts who have been trained as conversation facilitators, connect the subject to participants' experiences and to the local community, and model critical thinking without advocating a particular political agenda. Conversation Project programs can be hosted as stand-alone events, parts of a series, or as supplements to a nonprofit's regular programming. Oregon Humanities funds conversation leaders' honoraria, mileage, and meals. Nonprofit hosts manage program logistics (i.e. space, A/V, advertising) and cover lodging expenses in cases when conversation leaders travel long distances; there is no fee to apply. Themed series and programs offered in Spanish are available.

And finally, a quick summary of the conversation about censoring literature:
To Cut or Not to Cut: Censorship in Literature by Pancho Savery (Reed College)
Recent efforts to remove the "N" word in literature-from the new edition of Mark Twain's Huck Finn in which the word is changed to "slave" to the attempt to halt a high school production of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone because of its "offensive" language-raise questions about censorship. Is censorship ever a good thing? Should accommodations be made considering the difference between a character's and author's point of view? Reed College professor Pancho Savery will facilitate a discussion that examines these questions, as well as how language is used in Twain's and Wilson's texts.

The full catalog of available conversations - as well as details about how the program works and how to apply - can be found here: http://oregonhumanities.org/programs/section/conversation-project/


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