Date and Time: June 24th, 2016 13:00 - 17:30 Place: Tonan-tei, the 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Program: 13:00 - 14:30 Title: Repression and Self-Censorship under Thailand’s Military Dictatorship Speaker: Dr. David Streckfuss, Director, Council on International Educational Exchange Program at Khon Kaen University Abstract: There has been debate recently in the literature on censorship (and self-censorship) on whether the traditional emphasis on the dichotomy of “free speech vs. repression” and it concomitant focus on the apparatus of institutional censorship can adequately describe the mechanism of silencing within modern societies. The proponents of New Censorship Theory argue that in modern liberal societies the formal mechanisms of [ Read More ]