Scholars and Experts Week

Scholars and experts explore the playbill, bringing insight and experience to discussions around the impact of art, even when circumstance would see it obscured or contained

Censorship and Artistic Expression

In this conversation moderated by actor Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah with Assistant Professor of University of Toronto and Director of the Southeast Asian Seminar Series at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Elizabeth Wijaya, and Co-Executive Director of Artistic Freedom Initiative, Ashley Tucker, the history and modern-day realities of censorship are examined, along with the reasons art is censored and the ways artists resist being silenced.