The Humanities Center's 2025 Spring Lecture Series on “Banned Books and Censorship” continues with Karen Lucas Breda associate professor of nursing, who will give the talk "Ideology of Bans and Censorship with Travesti and Trans Women in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”on Wednesday, April 16, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies.
Here, Professor Breda will examine Brazilian travesti and trans women, understudied groups mostly existing on the margins of society, regarding social censorship with respect to changing gender, sexuality, religious and racial considerations.
The spring 2025 lecture series on "Banned Books and Censorship" is organized by Ayelet Brinn, Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and History, in association with Nicholas Ealy, Humanities Center Director.
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