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'Hate Speech' and Incitement to Violence Workshop

'Hate Speech' and Incitement to Violence

This workshop series is being convened by Professor Kendall Thomas and Lecturer-in-Law Peter Molnar, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at the Central European University.

Monday, February 9, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Professor C. Edwin Baker of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
“Hate Speech”

Monday, February 16, 2009
WJW 600, 12:15 – 1:40pm
Professor Monroe Price, Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
"Orbiting Hate? Satellite Transponders and Free Expression"

Monday, February 23, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Peter Molnar, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies, Central European University
“Towards Improved Law and Policy on ‘Hate Speech’ – The ‘Clear and Present Danger’ Test in Hungary”

Monday, March 23, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Professor Robert Post of Yale Law School
“Hate Speech”

Monday, April 13, 2009
WJW 600, 12:15 – 1:40pm
Professor Arthur Jacobson of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
“Hate Speech and Self-Restraint”

Thursday, April 16, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Professor Frederick Schauer of the University of Virginia
“Social Epistemology, Holocaust Denial, and the Post-Millian Calculus”

Monday, April 20, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Professor Michel Rosenfeld of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
“Hate Speech in Constitutional Jurisprudence: A Comparative Analysis”

Monday, April 27, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Prof. Irwin Cotler, Member of the Canadian Parliament, Former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada, Professor of law (on leave) McGill University
“State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide: The Responsibility to Prevent”
 

WJW stands for Warren and June Warren Hall located at 1125 Amsterdam Avenue (at 115th Street).