The Master Class of Prof. Dr. Albert Benbasat aims to familiarize students with the historical circumstances, theoretical foundations and practical application of prohibitions and taboos, laws and regulations related to the book as a social and communicative subject and commercial product, binding spirituality, knowledge and entertainment, and at the same time an object of lasting business relationships. The Master Class will consist of 5 open lectures, which will be held every Monday in the period November 6 - December 4, 2017. After each lecture, which lasts one astronomical hour, there will be a short discussion with the participants. The classes will end with a Round Table (seminar) on the issues that were considered during the Master Class.
All Bachelor and Master students who have participated in more than half of the classes, as well as in the Round Table, will be issued a Certificate by the Rector and the Head of the Master Class.
The program of the Master Class “Books, Prohibitions, Taboos”:
Topic 1: Book, Communication, Prohibition and Taboo
November 6, Hall 106, 4:00 PM
Book, Communication, Prohibition and Taboo. The book in the media system, reasons and prerequisites for imposing restrictions and prohibitions in the field of thematic and ideological content of the book before and after Gutenberg’s discovery. Definition of censorship, emergence and development of the censorship institution in different societies (antiquity, the Middle Ages, modernity). Lists of banned books and grounds for their compilation, publication and use.
Topic 2: Types of censorship and their application in different societies
November 13, Hall 106, 4:00 PM
Types of censorship and their application in different societies. Religious, political, ideological, moral, etc. censorship. Censorship in totalitarian societies – institutions (party and administrative structures, publishing houses, libraries, etc. entities exercising censorship over the book), anatomy of totalitarian censorship.
Topic 3: Book and Morality
November 20, room 106, 4:00 p.m.
Book and Morality. Erotica and Pornography – Definition, Appearance and Development. Reasons for the Mixing of Concepts and Possibilities for Their Differentiation. Erotica and Pornography in Books and the Media. Mass Culture and Mass Book. Leaflet, Serial, Tabloid, Media, Literature. Science, Charlatanism and Mass Culture: Esotericism, Astrology, Parapsychology, Numerology, Magic, Fortune Telling, Healing, etc.
Topic 4: Public and individual manipulations through books – “dangerous” and “harmful” books depending on their purpose and use
November 27, room 106, 4:00 p.m.
Public and individual manipulations through books – “dangerous” and “harmful” books depending on their purpose and use. Nazi, neo-Nazi, denialist, anti-Semitic, racist, Islamic-fundamentalist, pseudo-religious, etc. literature.
Topic 5: Freedom of speech and its limits
December 4, room 106, 4:00 p.m.
Freedom of speech and its limits. Regulatory mechanisms and regulatory bodies to limit the distribution of “harmful” and “dangerous” books in the modern world. Regulatory framework for children’s books and book publishing. Protection of adolescents from violence, pornography and pedophilia spread through books, the media and the Internet.
The lectures will be held at UniBIT 1 – Sofia, 119 Tsarigradsko Shosse Blvd., Hall 106.
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