DIES LEGENDI – Teaching Day 2024

On 19 November 2024, the DIES LEGENDI - Teaching Day took place in the auditorium of the main university building from 12 noon to 5 pm. The topic ‘Let's communicate! Discourse culture in courses', Friedrich Schiller University Jena focused on the current questions of how communication culture influences the learning atmosphere and learning success, how teachers can promote lively and critical discourse and how mechanisms of public political discourse affect teaching spaces. More than 100 participants (in attendance and via livestream) were first able to follow the opening speech by the Vice President, Prof Dr Karina Weichold. In his subsequent welcoming address, the President, Prof. Dr Andreas Marx, emphasised the University of Jena's aspiration to not only focus on research excellence, but also to pursue a future-oriented approach to teaching. In the keynote speech ‘From the Bundestag to the seminar room - pride and prejudice in political discourse’, Prof Dr Tobias Rothmund offered an insight into the culture of communication in society in general, right through to university society. In an open discussion round and a parallel university didactics workshop, lecturers and students were able to delve deeper into the debate and discussion on the specific aspects of discourse culture in teaching.