Speakers:
Nazar Akrami

Nazar Akrami is a professor of psychology at Uppsala University, specialising in personality and social psychology. His research interests encompass attitudes, stereotyping, prejudice, personality niche-building processes, personality assessment, extremism, and radicalization. Professor Akrami has contributed to multidisciplinary projects that integrate psychology with cutting-edge technology. These include developing machine learning models for personality assessment based on text, detecting hate speech and toxic language, predicting suicide risk, and conducting digital risk assessments. Professor Akrami has authored over 70 publications, with his research frequently featured in leading journals in psychology and personality science. 

Morgane Bonvallat

Morgane Bonvallat is project manager at the Public Discourse Foundation. She was in charge of the development of the Stop Hate Speech project at alliance F (umbrella organisation of women associations in Switzerland) from 2019 to 2023, where she specialised in online hate and discrimination issues. The project continues to develop under her leadership, now as part of the Public Discourse Foundation and in collaboration with ETH Zurich, to encourage a wide audience to respond to the phenomenon through counter- speech and support affected groups. She is also active in Tech against Violence. There, she works on the #withyou platform, which provides easy-to-access tools and information on the various forms of domestic violence and puts those affected in touch with help services. In general, her work focuses on developing digital solutions and raising awareness on violence and is based on collaboration with partners in the field.

Katharina Klappheck

Katharina Klappheck is the head of the Feminist Digital Policy Division at the Gunda Werner Institute of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and works particularly on queerness, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. They hold a Master degree in political science from the University of Vienna. In activist contexts, they are primarily concerned with the implementation and design of new inclusive technologies. Katharina's work currently focuses primarily on the conception of policies regarding feminist cybersecurity tools and they worked at the Bundestag in the field of ​​gender equality and digital transformation.

Moderator: 
Sarper Durmuş

Sarper Durmuş graduated from the Faculty of Communication at Galatasaray University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter, magazine manager in the field of culture and arts as well as in communication agencies. He received his PHD on political economy of digital platforms from Istanbul Bilgi University. He teaches journalism and media studies in the Department of New Media and Communication at the same university. He works on video game cultures and social media platform policies. The students in his class at Istanbul Bilgi University contribute to the Hrant Dink Foundation's work on hate speech.