BIH Diversity Week

Ein einstündiger interaktiver Vortrag mit Austauschrunden zu barrierearmer, diversitätssensibler und geschlechtergerechter Sprache. Teilnehmer*innen lernen, wie sie respektvoll mit Menschen verschiedenster Hintergründe kommunizieren können und erhalten praktische Tipps für den Einsatz inklusiver Sprache im Alltag und am Arbeitsplatz. Reflexionsübungen helfen dabei, den eigenen Sprachgebrauch zu überdenken, und es besteht die Möglichkeit, Fragen zum Thema zu stellen.

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Networking over lunch: Everyone brings their own lunch and can share it with colleagues and chat in a relaxed atmosphere across teams and departments, making new contacts and exchanging ideas about projects or interesting (diversity-related) topics. It's a great way to get to know each other and strengthen the team culture.

An opportunity to meet some of your colleagues from the First Contact Point team in a relaxed atmosphere, find out more about the work of the FCPs or even talk confidentially about your concerns.

15:30  Official opening by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dirnagl, Dr. Doris Meder and Karin Höhne

16:00  Keynote speech by Dr. Bontu Guschke: The Persistence of Sexism and Racism at Universities

This keynote speech examines the persistence of sexism and racism in university workplaces and emphasises the importance of understanding how these forms of discrimination are perpetuated. It highlights the organisational structures of universities as crucial factors in shaping experiences of harassment and discrimination, and underlines their impact on knowledge production and social dynamics. Using discourse and affect analysis, the presentation explores the intersectional reproduction of harassment and discrimination in the workplace, identifying institutional and individual factors at play. It also discusses how contextual elements within universities exacerbate these issues, including competition, hierarchy and the normalisation of precarity. Drawing on dis/organisation theory and feminist perspectives, it examines the invisibility and silence surrounding harassment and discrimination and proposes organisational practices to address these issues effectively.

Dr Bontu Lucie Guschke, Lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, researches queer and anti-racist feminist theory. She is particularly interested in intersectional feminist organisational analysis, queer feminist theory, anti-racism research and feminist epistemologies. Her dissertation is on the persistence of sexism and racism in universities. Her work has been published in international journals and she is editor of Femina Politica and Women, Gender and Research.
 

17:30    Networking over drinks and Exhibition of the prevention and awareness campaign "Art and Awareness - Poster for a Working Culture with Diveristy, Equity and Inclusion" 

Registration required for participation on site

Online participation via link

Wir alle kennen das: Auf der Arbeit, im Sportverein, in der Familie oder auf der Straße fallen Sprüche, die uns die Sprache verschlagen. Später ärgern wir uns, hätten gerne den Mund aufgemacht.

Hier setzt das interaktive Online-Seminar Stammtischkämpfer*innen an. Es soll Menschen in die Lage versetzen, die Schrecksekunde zu überwinden, Position zu beziehen und deutlich zu machen: Das nehmen wir nicht länger hin! In Theorie und Praxis werden gängige rechte Positionen untersucht und geübt, das Wort zu ergreifen und für solidarische Alternativen zu streiten statt für Ausgrenzung und Rassismus.

Begrenzte Teilnehmer*innenzahl:12

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Networking over lunch: Everyone brings their own lunch and can share it with colleagues and chat in a relaxed atmosphere across teams and departments, making new contacts and exchanging ideas about projects or interesting (diversity-related) topics. It's a great way to get to know each other and strengthen the team culture.

An opportunity to meet some of your colleagues from the  First Contact Point team in a relaxed atmosphere, find out more about the work of the FCPs or even talk confidentially about your concerns.

Only 17-18% of English and 16% of German biographies on Wikipedia are about women; people of colour and other marginalised groups are also underrepresented in Wikipedia. Join experienced members of the WomenEdit Group Berlin in creating and editing Wikipedia articles to make Wikipedia more diverse! No experience necessary. 

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Network over lunch, regardless of location or home office. Talk across teams and departments in a relaxed atmosphere, make new contacts and exchange ideas about projects or interesting (diversity) topics. A great opportunity to get to know each other and strengthen the team culture.

Particiation via link.

Corona & Co: The chaotic liaison between social media and science communication
In this digital event, designed as an open consultation hour, Prof Dr Konstanze Marx (University of Greifswald) will give a keynote speech on how the coronavirus pandemic has opened up new dimensions for science communication in social media. Using specific examples, she will explain how scientists suddenly found themselves the protagonists of artificially created feuds, how they were exposed to hatred and agitation, and how they developed strategies of counter-speech that serve as models for successful social media communication. There will then be time for questions and dialogue.

Konstanze Marx
Konstanze Marx is Professor of German Linguistics at the Institute of German Philology at the University of Greifswald. She obtained her doctorate at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena with a neurolinguistic thesis on text comprehension and her habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the discourse phenomenon of cyberbullying. She then worked as a Professor of German Linguistics at the Pragmatics Department of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim and at the University of Mannheim. She specialises in internet linguistics, discourse and text linguistics, research on the language-cognition-emotion relationship and media-linguistic prevention. She is the winner of Edition F's 25 Women Award and a research partner of the Leibniz Institute for German Language in Mannheim.

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Self-defense with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for WLINTA*

As part of BIH Diversity Week, we are offering you a self-defense course. Self-defense techniques can support you in self-assertion and so can be empowering. The course is aimed at FLINTA* (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people) in order to provide a safe environment. 

The course is based on techniques from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is a martial art that is very effective in self-defense situations where:

• there is only one attacker
• the attacker has no weapons
• the distance to the attacker is small or there is little space

During the course you will learn how to control the distance to a person, neutralize/interrupt physical contact and incapacitate the attacker by applying BJJ techniques.

Trainers will be Anna-Fee and Dânia:

Dânia is a BJJ purple belt at Gracie Berlin, where she is training since 2017. At 35 years old, she is an active competitor and has won gold at IBJJF European Championship in blue and purple belts in 2020 and 2023 (Rooster weight, Master 1) and silver at Abu Dhabi World Masters Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2022 at purple belt (49kg). When she is not at the mats, Dânia is a foodie and enjoys traveling to explore new cultures and flavors.

Anna-Fee, 34 years old, and a BJJ purple belt training for 4 1/2 years. Her biggest success was winning the IBJJF European Championship as a blue belt this year (Rooster weight, Master 1). Before she started BJJ, she danced and taught ballet for more than 20 years. Her other passion is teaching, so outside the gym she works at a school teaching English and German to teenagers. She's happy to get to merge her two passions with this self-defence course!

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