Centre for Free Expression

CFE

The event is being put on by the Centre for Free Expression and co-sponsored by PEN Canada

Room 103, Ryerson Communications Centre, 80 Gould St (at corner of Church St.)

12:00 pm to 1:30 pmMonday, Nov 23, 2015

Moderator: James L. TurkDirector, Centre for Free Expression

Discussant: Randy Boyagoda, President of PEN Canada; Novelist; Professor of English at Ryerson

Speaker: Richard MoonRichard Moon is professor of law at the University of Windsor. He is also the author of The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Conscience and Religion, and editor of Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada. He wrote an influential report for the Canadian Human Rights influential report for the Canadian Human Rights Comisssion in 2008 - "The Regulation of Hate Speech on the Internet". He has won both the law school and university-wide teaching awards as well as the Mary Lou Dietz Award for contributions to the advancement of equity in the university and community.

Many recent hate speech cases in Canada and elsewhere involve religion either as the source of views that are alleged to be hateful or as the subject of such views and sometimes as both. This talk will examine some of these controversies focusing primarily on the regulation of anti-Muslim speech and speech that ridicules religious beliefs, practices, and symbols.

When Religion is the Source or Subject of Hate Speech

Putting Faith in Hate: