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Banned Books Symposium: Proactive, Reactive, Supportive – REGISTER HERE

This half-day conference will feature presentations in all capacities of banned and challenged books and programs.
Cost: $25, includes lunch

Schedule of events
8:30 am: Registration Opens
9:00 am: Welcome Remarks
9:15am – 10:05 am: First Session
10:00 am – 10:20 am: Break
10:20 am – 11:10 am: Second Session
11:10 am – 11:45 am: Lunch Catered by Lola’s in Poughkeepsie
11:45 am – 1:00 pm: Keynote, Q&A

Keynote Speaker: Jeff Trexler
Jeff Trexler has served since 2020 as Interim Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting free expression and the legal rights of the comics community. He has extensive experience providing strategic advice to librarians, teachers, retailers, publishers, creators, legislators, and even law enforcement on responding to attempts to restrict access to graphic novels. An attorney himself, he is also the first CBLDF director since its founding in 1986 to provide direct legal representation in censorship cases, most notably the successful defense of Gender Queer against an unconstitutional attempt to prohibit the book’s sale or distribution in Virginia.

This Symposium is in partnership with Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, Ramapo Catskill Library System, Mid-Hudson Library System, Mount Saint Mary College, SUNY New Paltz and BOCES School Library Systems of Dutchess, Orange-Ulster, Rockland, Sullivan, and Ulster.

Location

Dutchess BOCES
5 Boces Rd Poughkeepsie 12601