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 September 29, 2011
| Time: | 7-8 p.m. |
| Description: | Media scholar Brett Gary delivers the Stanley Burnshaw Lecture, titled "The Importance of Being Morris L. Ernst - The Man Who Took on the Censors and Freed 'Ulysses.'"
Morris Leopold Ernst, whose archive is housed at the Ransom Center, was among the nation's most prominent civil liberties lawyers from the late 1920s until World War II. He was known especially for his challenges to far-reaching state and federal obscenity laws, known as the "Comstock Laws." By the eve of World War II, no one in the United States had done more to thwart censors' attacks on a variety of cultural forms, from modernist literature to nudism, from burlesque theater to birth control. Yet the political alliances Ernst forged because of his ardent anticommunism diminished his reputation in the last decades of his life, and his name elicits little recognition today.
Gary is associate professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. |
| Location: | Harry Ransom Center (HRC) |
| URL: | More about this event... |
| Contact: | Alicia M Dietrich | 512-232-3667 |
| Sponsor: | Harry Ransom Center |
| Admission: | Free, but limited seating |
| Categories: | Business & Law, Everyone, Lecture/talk, Politics & International |
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