Following our last keynote on unconscious bias in December 2024, our next event will be dedicated to the topic ‘Understanding and applying intersectionality: An overview for more confidence in dealing with diversity’.
Intersectionality describes the intersection of various structural inequalities. These can be, for example, unequal opportunities based on social background, racist devaluation, sexist discrimination - or all of these at the same time. As a political term, intersectionality gives people with multiple discrimination a voice for their identities; in legal application, it provides a legal framework - and in social or academic practice? We increasingly come across phrases such as ‘intersectionality is taken into account’ - but what exactly does this mean?
In her lecture, political education officer Pauline Seuß gives a theoretical introduction to the concept from black feminism and discusses its interdisciplinary application. The focus is on the question: What should less marginalised people also derive from this theory? In short: What does it mean to think about intersectionality, especially in the university context?
Time: Wednesday, 9.04.2025 from 2pm-4pm
Location: Trefftz-Bau, B-Building, room 145
