About the conference 

This conference brings together papers on bodies that have been censored, silenced, erased, and politically contested across languages, cultures, media, and historical periods. From state censorship to other forms of erasure, gendered, racialized, and queer bodies have long been banned, concealed, disciplined, and rendered silent by the institutions that govern cultural production: the church, the party, the publishing house, the archive, and the algorithm.