Diversity Days 2025 on campus

Monday, May, 19 2025, 14:00-17:30 (incl. break)

Seminar room E.069 in the Student Service Centre, Main University Building
Fürstengraben 1
(ground floor, right next to the cafeteria)

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Ein Workshop zu Intersktionalität und Diversitätskompetenz im Kontext Hochschule [conducted in German]
(A workshop on intersectionality and diversity competence in the university context)

Speaker: Dr. Charlotte Kaiser (Universität Jena)

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Saturday, May 24 2025
19:00 - 21:00

Location: t.b.a.

Queer reading (with open mic after)

The artists of the ‘Kontra Kunst’-collective will present their texts that shed light on LGBTIQ+ and diversity perspectives (in German). In the subsequent open-mic session, guests can contribute their own texts (in German and English).

Organisation: Kontra Kunst

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Monday, May 26 to Friday, July 4

Main University Building
Fürstengraben 1,
1st floor (Staircase next to the assembly hall)

Exhibition "Frauen im geteilten Deutschland"
An exhibition of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Germany (in German) 

The division of Germany has been history for over three decaes. Nevertheless
Nevertheless, we still encounter many clichés that are attributed to women from East and West Germany. Where do these clichés come from? And what is true about them? The aim of the exhibition is to visualise the diverse experiences of women experiences of women and to show the realities of their German-German lives with the
similarities and differences. At the same time, the exhibition raises the question of whether women in both German states shared a common striving for self-determination in a male-dominated system, despite the different political and social conditions.
On 20 posters, the different realities of women's lives in the Federal Republic and the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s.

Tuesday, May, 27 2025
11:00 to 14:00

Foyer, Carl-Zeiss-Straße 3

Information services and hands-on activities

Get to know the information, advice and service offers and hands-on activities on
diversity in everyday study and work life at the university.

Tuesday, May, 27 2025
10:00 to 14:00

Campus, Ernst-Abbe-Platz

Wheelchair course "Change of perspective" on the campus - Hands-on Activity

Experience the compus from a wheelchair perspective by rolling through a course with the support of wheelchair experts and mastering typical tasks of everyday
study and work life.

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