Armenia / Turkey on my mind - 1915 / 2015

Just sharing a few meetings, events, and this report from my fantastic friend Achren Verdian:

Notre Reportage sur les Arméniens "cachés" de Turquie est désormais disponible.

http://www.france24.com/fr/reporters/20150417-video-genocide-des-armeniens-caches-turquie-1915-centenaire-genocide-quete-identite-reportage/

Diffusion sur FRANCE 24 du 18 au 25 avril.

Achren Verdian & Johan Bodin

Journalistes FRANCE 24

Jours et horaires de diffusion:

- 18/04: 22h10

- 19/04: 4h10, 12h10, 18h10

- 20/04: 2h40, 12h40

- 21/04: 16h45

- 23/04: 2h15, 10h10

- 24/04: 11h15

- 25/04: 14h10

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Hrant Dink Foundation
Panel: 
DANGEROUS SPEECH/HATE SPEECH & MEDIA PLURALISM
 Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2015
from 18.30 to 20.30
Venue: Havak Hall, Hrant Dink Foundation Anarad Hığutyun Building
 

Hrant Dink Foundation invites you to the panel entitled “Dangerous Speech/Hate Speech & Media Pluralism” on Tuesday, April 28, 2015.

Susan Benesch from Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and Dr. Elda Brogi who is the Scientific Coordinator of the European University Institute’s Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom will talk on dangerous speech, hate speech, media pluralism, and the challenges faced by their institutions/projects. Prof. Dr. Fuat Keyman from Sabancı University and Istanbul Policy Center will moderate the panel.
 

The Hrant Dink Foundation is carrying out the Media Watch on Hate Speech project since 2009 with the aim of combating racist and discriminatory discourse in the media through awareness-raising activities. Until now, our activities have consisted of organizing international conferences and workshops with scholars and journalists; monitoring the printed press in order to expose hate speech and discriminatory discourse in media through periodical reports, the project website www.nefretsoylemi.org, and our social media accounts; and sharing our works with NGOs, universities, newspaper editors, journalists, and various other institutions.

The decision to initiate some fundamental steps towards establishing a Hate Speech Laboratory/Research Center under the roof of the Hrant Dink Foundation was taken in January 2014. Sponsored by the Open Society Foundation and the Istanbul Policy Center (Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative), the Hate Speech Laboratory/Research Center Project began in September 2014 in order to design the structure of the laboratory, and develop possible projects that can be run in and through such a laboratory/research center. Through the ideas and suggestions that will be collected during the three roundtable meetings we will hold until June 2015, the structure of the laboratory will be designed, and an action plan will be prepared to initiate and coordinate its establishment in the near future.

Elda Brogi and Susan Benesch will be in Istanbul with us in April 2015 in order to contribute to the establishment of the Hate Speech Laboratory/Research Center. The panel will be held on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from 18.30 to 20.30 at the Hrant Dink Foundation Anarad Hığutyun Building’s Havak Hall.

We would be honored to have your presence.

Simultaneous translation to Turkish will be provided.

ELDA BROGI is the Scientific Coordinator of European University Institute's Center for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom. Elda’s main interests span Constitutional, European and Media law. She teaches Information and Communication Law at the University of Florence, and previously taught at the University of Macerata. Elda has worked as a Parliamentary Assistant at the European and Italian Parliaments, and as research fellow at the Universities of Florence (Media Integration and Communication Centre) and Perugia. She has participated in many European and Italian research projects covering her main topics of interest. At the University of Florence, she was the coordinator of the project "Support to the reform of Serbian Media Legislation towards EU standards and strengthening of legal and technical skills of media professionals” (CARDS) and recently she has been working in the Mediadem project at the Law Department of the EUI. She holds a degree in Law (University of Florence), a Ph.D. in Public Law and Constitutional Law (University La Sapienza, Rome) and is an Italian qualified lawyer. She is a member of the Committee of Experts on Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists at the Council of Europe. SUSAN BENESCH founded the Dangerous Speech Project, to find ways of diminishing inflammatory speech – and its capacity to inspire violence - while protecting freedom of expression. She has developed a framework to estimate the dangerousness of speech in context, and has tested ways to help audiences to resist dangerous speech, especially in Kenya. While at Berkman, she carries out a new project to test the effectiveness of anti-hatred efforts online. Her relevant work is described atvoicesthatpoison.wordpress.com anddangerousspeech.org. Susan teaches international human rights at American University's School of International Service. She also currently serves as the Everett Fellow in Genocide Prevention at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In the past she has worked at the Center for Justice and Accountability, Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Before studying law at Yale, Susan was chief staff writer for the Miami Herald in Haiti, and Latin America correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times. She covered wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, invasions in Panama and Haiti, and also wrote for a variety of magazines and websites.