Organized by ASULIS Discourse, Dialog and Democracy Laboratory of Hrant Dink Foundation, the talk titled “Conceptual Discussions: Political Discourse”, which is the first of conceptual discussion series, was held on January 9, 2018 in Anarad Hığutyun Building. It was moderated by Nur Betül Çelik and speakers Nazlı Ökten and Ferda Keskin discussed the notion of discourse and the relationship between discourse and politics.
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In the panel 'Combating Discriminatory Discourse: Theoretical Discussions & European Experience regarding Hate Speech Laws', the boundaries between freedom of expression and hate speech and European hate speech laws were discussed.
The panel took place with the participation of Teun van Dijk, one of the world's most prominent scholars in the field of critical discourse studies and Charles Husband, internationally known with his work on media and ethnic diversity.
The panel discussing the ways in which hate speech is produced in traditional media and social media took place with the participation of Elisabeth Eide and László Földi in the moderation of Itır Erhart.
Nazlı Ökten graduated from Boğaziçi University with a B.A. in Sociology in 1992 and from Paris I Sorbonne with a M.A. in political sociology. Since 1995, she has been giving lectures in Galatasaray University, where she also works as a researcher in Center for Social Studies. Between 1992 and 2002, she published the periodical Hayalet Gemi with her friends and she hosted a radio show in Açık Radyo. She is still in editorial board of the periodical Cogito. Having articles written in Turkish, French and English, and numerous translations in the field social sciences, she carries out her works within the framework of politics/society/imagination.
Ferda Keskin got her PhD degree in political science from Essex University with her dissertation titled “Kemalist Hegemony: From Its Constitution to Its Dissolution”, which she started with Ernesto Laclau and then completed with Aletta Norval. She published articles in topics like Kemalism, hegemony, theories of discourse, political ontology and wrote a book titled Genealogy of Ideology: Marx and Ideology. She is working on a book titled Tracing Populism in Turkish Politics with her 3 friends under Library of Ankara Solidarity Academy.
Nur Betül Çelik graduated from Boğaziçi University with a B.A. in philosophy and from Columbia University with a M.A. and PhD in philosophy. He is a faculty member of Istanbul University Comparative Literature Department. He is also the director of Philosophy and Social Thought Master’s Program of which he is also the founder. His research interests are Michel Foucault, ethics, society and political philosophy, philosophy of social sciences, literature and philosophy.