34th Annual GAFIS Symposium: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Debates about free speech and censorship have retaken a central place in public discourse. Yet, as social media platforms struggle over who may participate in their platform and cultural commentators wring their hands over “cancel culture,” questions of obscenity are strangely absent from these debates. The literary causes célèbres of the twentieth century lack a clear analogue in our own moment. So what happened? Is obscenity over? Have we reach "The End of Obscenity?"