Media campaign: Making diversity visible and audible

Campaign Goals

We want to increase the visibility of the topic of equal opportunities and diversity and introduce the cooperation partners of the staff unit and the Vice-Rectorate. Only together can we make the University of Bonn a place where everyone feels valued - a place where we are sensitive to discrimination. We are therefore delighted to announce our media campaign, which has been made possible by funding from the German Rectors' Conference (HRK).

This campaign not only presents the work of the Equal Opportunitiy and Diversity Unit and the Vice-Rectorate, but also focuses on the topic of diversity at the University of Bonn. Our aim is to sensitise students, staff, lecturers and researchers alike to the topic of diversity and to highlight the variety of offers and research projects in this area.

Only together can we create a diversity-sensitive, open university culture. We therefore want to work together to create a university where everyone has even more opportunities.

We look forward to your support and feedback.
Your team from the Equal Opportunity and Diversity Unit and the Vice-Rectorate

Participation in Gaming. A podcast on accessibility, featuring Professor Adrian Hermann

Professor Adrian Hermann conducts research on human/machine/world interaction with regard to accessibility. He also studies on the topic of gaming labs and accessibility.

In this podcast, he provides an insight into the world of gaming for people with disabilities and also touches on accessibility as a social issue, describing both current realities and visions of the future.

Sascha Sistenich explores the queer perspective on caregiving in a much broader-than-usual way. Sascha sees his work as playing an important social role, viewing ‘caregiving’ as a societal core value. He discusses the role of caregiving in the lives of queer individuals, and why the same issues are relevant for non-queer people as well.

You can download an English transcript of the podcast here.

Junior Professor Dr Julia Binter investigates cooperative research on cultural assets from colonial contexts in museums. She accompanies the restitution of cultural assets from Germany to Namibia with the question: How can knowledge creation in museums and cultural heritage be made more sustainable and fair? German colonial history still characterises our understanding of Namibian art today. The returned cultural artefacts tell their own story.
We also spoke to an expert from Namibia, Golda Ha-Eiros, who impressively explains the value of these cultural artefacts for her ancestors, for herself and for the next generation.

Dima Al Munajed speaks about the chances and the difficulties which can arise when students and researchers from different cultures and backgrounds study and research together.
Dima is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Coordinator at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies. In her role, she also advises students and researchers from abroad how to start their research and studies at the University of Bonn and how to settle in. Based on her own experiences she knows very well how they feel and how to support them.

Gender studies and Catholicism may appear to not really go together, but the University of Bonn in fact has a Research Group for Theological Gender Studies, where Sister Jakoba is a research associate. We talked to her about the Church’s complex relationship with gender throughout its history. Of interest is how this history informs debate today, both within the Church and on the larger socio-political level.