LISSO (Library and Information Science Student Organization), Pirate Radio, and the Iowa City Public Library (ICPL) invite you to the Intellectual Freedom Festival from Sept. 25 – Oct. 7! All events will be held at the Iowa City Public Library at 123 S. Linn St. in Meeting Room A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fri. Sept. 25, 7:00 p.m.<\/strong> “Bloody Cartoons: Freedom of expression and the clash of cultures.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Bloody Cartoons” is a documentary about how and why 12 drawings in a Danish provincial paper could whirl a small country into a confrontation with Muslims all over the world. He asks whether respect for Islam combined with the heated response to the cartoons is now leading us towards self-censorship. How tolerant should we be, he wonders, of the intolerant. And what limits should there be, if any, to freedom of speech in a democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wed. Sept. 30, noon<\/strong> “Public Libraries, Budget Cuts and Intellectual Freedom: a conversation about the state of Iowa Libraries.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n A panel with: Nick Shimmin – Director, West Branch Public Library; Jennie Garner – Assistant Director, North Liberty Public Library; Susan Craig – Director, Iowa City Public Library; Mike Jorgensen – Adult Services Librarian, Coralville Public Library; Jason Paulious – Young Adult Librarian, Iowa City Public Library; Mike Wright – Head of Acquisitions and Copy Cataloging, University of Iowa Libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wed. Oct. 7, noon<\/strong> “Intellectual Freedom Remix, feat. Tack-Fu, the Chaircrusher, Pirate Radio and Kembrew McLeod: What Producing, Sampling, Remixing and Broadcasting have to teach us about copyright and the freedom to create.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Music, film, books and other media have become imminently shareable with the advent of internet broadband communications. Some artists see this as a threat to their rights under copyright law. Meanwhile, a counter-movement of artists argues that strict copyright and broadcasting laws stifle intellectual freedom and creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tack-Fu and the Chaircrusher are local hip-hop producers who live by their own set of rules for sampling other musicians’ work to create new and innovative music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pirate Radio is a local independent radio station that broadcasts music, talk, poetry, radio drama (an original is currently in production), and even weekly bedtime stories from Iowa City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kembrew McLeod is a Professor of Communications at the University of Iowa. He has copyrighted the phrase “Freedom of Expression” as a statement about the chilling effects of current copyright laws in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LISSO (Library and Information Science Student Organization), Pirate Radio, and the Iowa City Public Library (ICPL) invite you to the Intellectual Freedom Festival from Sept. 25 – Oct. 7! All events will be held at the Iowa City Public Library at 123 S. Linn St. in Meeting Room A. Fri. Sept. 25, 7:00 p.m. “Bloody Cartoons:Continue reading “Intellectual Freedom Festival @ ICPL – Sept 25-Oct 7”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6154,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/6154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}