Globalization and Diversity 2017

June 26- July 7, 2017


Program

In a first module students were introduced to different perspectives on diversity in the context of globalization. This was done through lectures and seminars. In a second module students experienced and discussed further diversity-related topics, approaching specifically Germany-related topics and perspectives dealing with aspects to diversity in the past and present.

Module I: The students were introduced to different perspectives on diversity in the context of globalization through seven lectures, seminars and student led seminars. Thus, different didactic strategies were used to

• Prepare discussions with key note speakers and/or
• Clarify specific views on globalization and diversity and/or
• Reflect on individual research proposals
• Reflect differences of academic cultures

Module II: The excursions are meant to cover further diversity-related topics such as memory culture, activism or cultural heritage sites with the achievement of intercultural competencies

• Mittelbau-Dora, concentration camp site memorial of the Third Reich (one day excursion)
• Friedland Transit Camp - Perspectives on Migration, the Transit Camp from 1945 to today (one day excursion)
• Art exhibition Documenta in Kassel (one day exhibition)

The Summer School also included preparation, a short presentation and a concluding essay.


Speakers
Dr. Kristin Aune, Coventry University (Gender, Religion)
Dr. Sara de Jong, The Open University, UK
Dr. Laura Fantone, UC Berkeley (Visual and Post-colonial Studies)
Prof. Dr. Sabine Grenz, Göttingen Diversity Research Institute/ University of Vienna (Gender and Sexual Difference),
Prof. Dr. Chia Longman, Ghent University (Culture, Gender and Diversity)
Prof. Dr. Hans Pongratz, LMU Munich (Sociology of Work)
Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Göttingen (Globald Diversity, "Superdiversity")

Organizers
Dr. Astrid Biele Mefebue, Faculty of Social Sciences, Göttingen Diversity Research Institute
Associate Professor Dr. Sabine Grenz, Faculty of Social Sciences, Göttingen Diversity Research Institute and University of Vienna, Gender Studies (from April 2017)
Professor Dr. Andrea D. Bührmann, Faculty of Social Sciences, Göttingen Diversity Research Institute