Hrant Dink Foundation invites you to the panel entitled “Similar Discourses, New Methods in Turkey and Europe: Countering Hate Speech through Art and Performance” on Monday, October 23, 2017.
Peter Molnar from Central European University (CEU) will talk about the growing amount of hate speech in Central Europe, transatlantic (between Budapest and New York) anti-racist/pro-diversity slam poetry event he has been organizing since 2010, performances of “Hate Speech” Monologues he has been directing at CEU since 2013, and his bi-weekly radio show on responses to hate speech. İdil Engindeniz Şahan from Galatasaray University will share examples of hate speech in Turkey and talk about the potential role theatre can play in countering hate speech and the topics around which this role would be fulfilled in the context of Turkey. The panel will be moderated by Zeynep Oral.
There will be simultaneous translation from English to Turkish during the panel.
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In 2007, the staged version of his novel, Searchers, won awards for best alternative play and best independent play in Hungary. A slam poetry performer in English and in Hungarian since 2010, when he initiated and convened an anti-racist/pro-diversity slam poetry event with internet streaming between Budapest and New York. In 2013 he invented and since then he directed the performances of the “Hate Speech” Monologues at CEU. Since July 2013, he voluntarily hosts a bi-weekly radio show on responses to hate speech on Radio Tilos (Forbidden). |
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Peter Molnar is Research Affiliate on Freedom of Speech at the Center for European Enlargement Studies at Central European University where he was one of the founding researchers of the Center for Media and Communication Studies in 2004. He is a former member of the Hungarian Parliament (1990-1998), a writer, slammer, voluntary radio host, participatory theater director and activist. He co-edited “Content or Context of “Hate Speech”: Rethinking Regulation and Responses”, Michael Herz and Peter Molnar (eds.), 2012, Cambridge University Press, and edited “Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe”, 2015, Central European University Press.
İdil Engindeniz Şahan works at Faculty of Communication of Galatasaray University. She graduated from the journalism module of the same faculty. She did her MA and PhD at Stendhal University on ethics of journalism, LGBTI issues and public space. She has been working on issues such as media representation, hate speech, and murders of women in collaboratin with a number of civil society organizations. Şahan studied acting at Şahika Tekand Studio Oyuncuları. She is currently taking part in the play 'Kuartet', written by H. Can Utku, directed by E. Nazlı Durlu and Ziya Demirel and staged by Tiyatro Öteki Hayatlar.
Zeynep Oral is a writer, journalist, theatre critic, cultural editor, feminist, peace activist, lecturer, columnist for Cumhuriyet daily, and President of PEN Turkey. She is the author of 17 books (research books, travel books, biographies, theatre, opera books, short stories). Her books concentrate on human rights, building bridges between social consciousness and cultural affairs. Her biography on the Turkish Diva Leyla Gencer has been translated and published in English, Italian and French. Zeynep Oral has been both the founder and director of several NGO’s such as WINPEACE (Women Initiative for Peace) KA.DER ; Nazım Hikmet Foundation, Turkey’s Theatre Critics Association and many others.