11th Käte Hamburger Dialogue: Resisting Online Defamation
Channel: Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Date: 2018-12-13

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11th Käte Hamburger Dialogue
Resisting Online Defamation: Prospects for Global Cooperation

11th December 2018

For all of its benefits, the Internet has also created large global public cyber-spaces for the spread of defamation. Burgeoning online hate speech – verbal degradation and humiliation of other individuals and groups – deeply undermines public discourse. Given that online defamation spreads with little heed of territorial borders, it becomes an issue for global cooperation. At the same time, global cooperation against hate speech (among governments, commercial Internet services, and civil society associations) faces particular challenges. After all, different parties around the world have widely varying approaches to the issue: in their historical experiences, legal frameworks, political cultures, and institutional arrangements.

Against this backdrop Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21) convenes this Dialogue to explore the prospects for global cooperation around resistance to online defamation. An international and interdisciplinary panel considers both the possibilities and the constraints for sustained and impactful supranational collaboration against hate speech. 

Welcoming and Introductory Remarks

Prof. Dr Jan Aart Scholte, Co-Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research and Professor in Peace and Development, University of Gothenburg,

Panellists

Daniëlle Flonk, Research Associate to the project 'Evolving Internet Interfaces: Content Control and Privacy Protection’, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin 

Dr Blayne Haggart, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Brock University, Canada and Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research

Dr Anna Shpakovskaya, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of East Asian Studies and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen

Dr Natasha Tusikov, Assistant Professor in Criminology, York University, Canada

Moderator

Prof. Dr Sigrid Quack, Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research and Professor of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen

Venue: NETZ – NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum, Room 2.42
University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg
Carl-Benz-Str. 199, 47057 Duisburg

Time: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. 

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Livestream and recording: ZIM - Zentrum für Informations- und Mediendienste, Universität Duisburg-Essen