The “Diversity Spotlights” podcast is concerned with the different features of diversity like gender, sexual identity/orientation, culture/world view and religion, social background, health/illness, age and appearance. These features influence who we are, but, more importantly, they also influence how we are being seen by others. In a society in which privileges and positions are not distributed evenly, this also means that we need to address mechanisms of exclusion, discrimination and inequalities in participation as well as resource distribution.
This is what we are doing with a whole range of dialogue partners.
Below each episode, you can find our “more on the topic” section that provides more information in form of glossaries, book and audio recommendations, contacts at the University and local networking and empowerment opportunities.
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Florence Brokowski-Shekete
In the first episode of our podcast, we are talking to Florence Brokowski-Shekete, the first Black woman director of an education authority (Schulamt) in Germany, about racism, growing up as a Black woman in Germany, her career and solidarity among students.
Trigger warning: Experiences with racism are discussed.
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Topics Page: Anti-racism
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Dr. Maria Alexopoulou
In the second episode of our podcast, we are talking to historian Maria Alexopoulou about Germany as a country of immigration, about racist knowledge and about why there has never been something like the “zero hour,” although the myth is still being kept alive.
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more on this topic Topics Page: Anti-racism
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Jaana Espenlaub
In the third episode of our podcast, we are talking to Jaana Espenlaub, who is coordinator of the state Baden-Württemberg for the Arbeiterkind.de association, about what it means to be the first person in a family to study at university level and what kind of challenges, opportunities, and support facilities there are.
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more on this topic Topics Page: Social Background
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Hannah Engelmann
In the fourth episode of our podcast, we are talking to Hannah Engelmann about anti-queer ideologies and gender diversity in universities. She is teaching at the University of Hildesheim and is actively working in education on queer-feminist, ecological and anti-capitalist issues as part of the Bildungskollektiv IMAGO.
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Julia Szendrödi
In the fifth episode, we are talking to professor Julia Szendrödi. She has been medical director of the Heidelberg clinic of endocrinology, diabetology, metabolic diseases and clinical chemistry since February 2021. One of her goals is to strengthen medicine and research concerning gender issues in Heidelberg.
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In the sixth episode we are talking to Sandra Runge about the rights of parents and compatibility. She is a lawyer specialising in employment law and co-founder of the #pro parents initiative, which calls for the inclusion of parenthood as a possible feature of discrimination in the General Equality Law.
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In the seventh episode we are talking to Helene Shani Braun. She studies Jewish Theology and works in the fields of feminism, queerness, sustainability and communication among religions.
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Jochen Guck
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In the eight episode we are talking to Professor Jochen Guck about his experience as a scientist with a disability on the occasion of the German Diversity Day. Professor Guck uses a wheelchair and is an internationally experienced physicist.
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Frank Reuter
In the 9th episode, after a longer break on the occasion of Diversity Day 2023, we are talking to Dr. Frank Reuter, head of the Antiziganism Research Unit at the Historical Seminar in Heidelberg, about the question of why there was no real "Stunde Null" after the Nazi era and why a deeply rooted antiziganist enemy image still exists today as a construct of the dominant society.
Trigger warning: Use of racist foreign designations for Sinti and Roma in historical and research-related contexts; thematisation of racist experiences and reports of experiences of survivors from the Nazi era.
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