WORDS ARE DEEDS, SPEECH IS ACTION
(DISCRIMINATORY DISCOURSE AND HATE SPEECH)
(PROGRAMME)

9.00- 10. 30  INSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION IN PRACTICE
Moderator: Dieter Schindlauer, Head of Antidiscrimination Non-Governmental Organization ZARA

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.45 DISCOURSE AND DISCRIMINATION
Moderator: Dieter Schindlauer, Head of Antidiscrimination Non-Governmental Organization ZARA

MATJAŽ HANŽEK, Human Rights Ombudsman
Hate Speech, Human Rights and Discrimination

ALEXANDER POLLAK, Programme Manager Research at the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)
Language, Society, Discrimination, Political discourses

ANDRAŽ TERŠEK, Assistant at the Faculty of Law 
Need for Legal Regulation of Hate Speech versus Threat to Freedom of Speech

Discussion

Short presentation of workshops and chairs

12.45 - 13.45 Lunch

13.45 - 15.45 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Workshop 1: Legal aspects concerning Hate Speech

Hannes Tretter, Director of the Ludwig Boltzman Institute for Human Rights 

Andraž Teršek, Asistant at the Faculty of Law

 
Workshop 2: What can be done against Hate Speech and Cyber Hate?

Cormac Callanan, General Secretary of INHOPE

Barbara Liegl, Member of the Board of Antidiscrimination Non Governmental Organization ZARA

Katarina Krapež, Project Manager of Stopline Slovenia

Workshop 3: Discourse Analysis and Hate Speech

Alexander Pollak, Programme Manager Research at the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)

Brankica Petkovič, Director of the Center for Media Politics, Peace Institute

15.45 - 16.15  Coffee Break

16.15 - 17.45 PLENARY - PRESENTATION OF WORKSHOP RESULTS

Moderator: Andres Delgado, former General Secretary of the Sweedish Ombudsman for Ethnic Discrimination