{"id":2405,"date":"2025-11-07T10:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:38:16","slug":"book-banning-impact-and-resistance-a-panel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/2025\/11\/07\/book-banning-impact-and-resistance-a-panel-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Book Banning: Impact and Resistance &#8211; A Panel Discussion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Nov. 18, 5:00pm &#8211; 6:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Fahy Hall rm 7 (lower level)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Book banning has become an increasingly pervasive problem in this country, impacting library holdings and school curricula, and affecting younger readers in particular. In this CFD session, Brendan Kiely author (<i>All American Boys<\/i>, <i>Sole Survivor<\/i>, <i>Tradition<\/i>) and English department professor will engage in a discussion with Ashley Hope Perez, literary scholar, novelist (<i>Out of Darkness<\/i>, <i>What Can&#8217;t Wait<\/i>), youth advocate, and educator, and the editor of the best-selling anthology <i>Banned Together<\/i>, and Samira Ahmed, the bestselling author (<i>Love, Hate &amp; Other Filters<\/i>, <i>Internment<\/i>, <i>Mad, Bad &amp; Dangerous to Know<\/i>, <i>Hollow Fires<\/i>) in a lively discussion of this issue: the current state of affairs, as well as what readers and writers can and are doing to fight back.<\/p>\n<p>Light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 18, 5:00pm &#8211; 6:00pm Fahy Hall rm 7 (lower level) Book banning has become an increasingly pervasive problem in this country, impacting library holdings and school curricula, and affecting&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-faculty-opportunities","category-forthcoming-events","category-professional-development"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}