Come and be a part of our 2nd annual Banned Books Read-In as a reader or a listener. We will celebrate Gateway Redhawk voices as they share aloud passages from their favorite banned or challenged books.
You are welcome to be an attendee without reading.
What to expect? In increments of 5 mins (or less), readers will read text from books such as Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Perks of Being a Wallflower, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Fault in Our Stars, Catcher in The Rye, and others.
Media lawyer and author Ian Rosenberg will be joining us to talk about book bans and free speech law. He will discuss the key Supreme Court library censorship case (Island Trees School District v. Pico), and his own recent experiences with having one of his books challenged. A question and answer session will follow.
Rosenberg has over twenty years of experience as a media lawyer, and has worked as legal counsel for ABC News since 2003. He graduated with distinction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and magna cum laude from Cornell Law School. Rosenberg is also an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, and teaches media law at Brooklyn College. He is the author of The Fight for Free Speech (NYU Press, 2021) and Free Speech Handbook (Macmillan, 2021). His next book, Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody: Dominion v. Fox and the Future of Democracy will be published by NYU Press in 2025. He lives in New York with his wife and their two children.
www.thefightforfreespeech.com
www.freespeechhandbook.com
Free Speech Guides by Ian Rosenberg
Enjoy light refreshments while making buttons, magnets and silkscreen materials inspired by your support of keeping literature free from banning. Button, magnet-making materials and silkscreen images will be provided. Students are asked to bring whatever item(s) they would like to have the “READ BANNED BOOKS” image silkscreened onto.
To request disability accommodation or accessibility assistance, contact Josh Vollendorf at 262-564-3062, Wisconsin Relay 711, or email compliance@gtc.edu.