Giving & Taking Offense
University of Aveiro, Portugal

We are pleased to inform people interested in
attending the two-day conference on "Giving and
Taking Offence" at the University of Aveiro,
Portugal on the 21st and 22nd June 2007 that
proposals will be accepted until the 15th April
2007, and that the following people have agreed
to be our plenary speakers:

Prof. David Lavery, Head of Film and TV Studies
at Brunel University, London, who will be
speaking on "H**y F*****g Sh*t: Profanation,
Parody, and Bleeping American Unreality in The
Onion, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report".

Dr Francisco Teixeira da Mota, International
lawyer, national newspaper columnist and expert
on libel in the media, who will be speaking on
"Crime and the Written Word".

For further information please contact :

Prof Anthony Barker,
abarker_at_dlc.ua.pt

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