Antirassismus@MLU
On this page you will find information about the anti-racist diversity management of the University of Halle and other offers of the MLU, the city of Halle (Saale) and the region for people affected by racism.
MLU Statements and Policies
Diversity Statement
In its Diversity Statement, the University of Halle advocates, among other things, the appreciation, support, and protection against discrimination of persons of all ethnic origins.
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Policy on protection against discrimination, (sexual) harassment and violence
In its policy on protection against discrimination, (sexual) harassment and violence, it prohibits, among other things, discrimination, (sexual) harassment and violence based on ethnic origin and obligates its students and employees to contribute to a study and work climate free of discrimination and violence. Confidential counseling services and official complaint channels are available to individuals who experience discrimination, (sexual) harassment, or violence in university contexts.
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Action: Cosmopolitan university
MLU is joining other universities in a nationwide campaign against xenophobia and nationalism and is aggressively advocating open-mindedness and cosmopolitanism. In this way, the universities are reacting to racially motivated verbal and physical violence in Germany and to the isolationist tendencies in many countries. Perspectives, diversity of opinion, and international exchange are the foundations of research and teaching activities at universities. In view of increasing xenophobic tendencies and the rising success of populist slogans, universities feel challenged to stand up for these values together. The university administrations want to encourage the university members in their resistance against xenophobia and also act accordingly in their regional and international networks. An open and international campus and the international mobility of teachers and students are essential foundations for high-quality teaching, learning and research.
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Open Letter on Dealing with the "Identitäre Bewegung"
In January 2018, the Rectorate and the StuRa of MLU published an Open Letter regarding the "Identitäre Bewegung", which was still present on the Steinor campus at that time.
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Counseling and support services
Antidiscrimination Prevention and Counseling Center of the MLU
Students of the MLU who experience or observe racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim or other discrimination in the university context can contact Sabine Wöller from the Prevention and Counseling Center for Anti-Discrimination at the University of Halle in confidence. Consultations are possible in German and English and, if desired, anonymously. Appointments can be made individually by e-mail.
![Photo: Sabine Wöller (Photographer: Friederike Stecklum)
[Image description: Sabine Wöller is standing on the Universitätsplatz, with the
Audimax in the background. She wears a black and white patterned shirt and a
black blouse, has a red dyed streak and looks smiling into the camera].](/im/1657270494_2670_00_420.jpg)
Photo: Sabine Wöller (Photographer: Friederike Stecklum)
[Image description: Sabine Wöller is standing on the Universitätsplatz, with the
Audimax in the background. She wears a black and white patterned shirt and a
black blouse, has a red dyed streak and looks smiling into the camera].
Contact
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Stabsstelle Vielfalt und Chancengleichheit
Präventions- und Beratungsstelle Antidiskriminierung
Sabine Wöller
room 303, 3. OG
Dachritzstraße 12
06108 Halle (Saale)
How to reach us
phone: 0345-55 21013
antidiskriminierung@uni-halle.de
Webseite
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postal address:
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Stabsstelle Vielfalt und Chancengleichheit
Präventions- und Beratungsstelle Antidiskriminierung
Sabine Wöller
06099 Halle (Saale)
Social and conflict counseling center of the MLU
Employees of the MLU who experience or observe racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim or other discrimination in the university context can contact Anke Märker from the Social and Conflict Counseling Center at the University of Halle in confidence.
![Photo: Social and Conflict Counseling Center
(Photographer: Michael Deutsch)
[Image description: The photo shows Anke Märker laughing as she stands between
two fists that have red boxing gloves on them. She is wearing a patterned blouse
and has brown hair tied in a braid].](/im/1657276145_2670_00_420.jpeg)
Photo: Social and Conflict Counseling Center
(Photographer: Michael Deutsch)
[Image description: The photo shows Anke Märker laughing as she stands between
two fists that have red boxing gloves on them. She is wearing a patterned blouse
and has brown hair tied in a braid].
Commissioner for foreigners of the MLU
The Foreigners' Representative acts as a confidant and contact person for the international students and the foreign scientists* of MLU in case of problems within the university as well as with authorities and institutions of the city of Halle.
![Photo: Prof. Dr. Gregor Borg (Photographer: Maike Glöckner)
[Image description: The photo shows Prof. Dr. Anita von Poser in fornt of a gray
background. She wears a dark blue shirt, has shoulder-length brown hair and
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Photo: Prof. Dr. Gregor Borg (Photographer: Maike Glöckner)
[Image description: The photo shows Prof. Dr. Anita von Poser in fornt of a gray
background. She wears a dark blue shirt, has shoulder-length brown hair and
laughs into the camera.]
Contact
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Institut für Ethnologie
Ausländerbeauftragte des akademischen Senats
Prof. Dr. Anita von Poser
Reichardtsraße 11
06114 Halle (Saale)
phone: 0345-5524191
anita.poser@ethnologie.uni-halle.de
Webseite
International Office of the MLU
MLU is engaged in a lively international exchange with universities from all over the world. Around 2,000 international students and 500 international scientists enliven university and city life on a daily basis. The International Office team advises on financing and funding opportunities, support services and language courses, and supports foreign guests and students on their way to MLU and during their stay. Together with the Human Resources Development Department, the International Office has developed the certificate program "International Competence", which contributes to the promotion of international competencies of employees through various offers. MLU employees and trainees receive the certificate once they have successfully completed the modules "Foreign Language Competence", "Intercultural Awareness" and "International Exchange".
For more information, visit the International Office website and their Instagram page .
Department for international students of the student council of the MLU
Logo Referat für internationale Studierende
The university life of international students is coined by various obstacles and challenges. Eventual language barriers, German bureaucracy with its many forms and requirements and cultural misunderstandings, complicate (university) life. The international(s) department helps international students in finding answers to their questions and supports them, to get along with their everyday life in Germany. Furthermore, it is linked with multiple initiatives and university institutions and tries to provide assistance in occuring problems.
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Hilfe für ausländische Studierende e. V. (HauS) of the MLU
The association, established in 1994, supports international students that got into difficulties by no fault of them through membership fees and donations. The financial aid occurs after careful examinations within time-limits that are sufficiently short and unbureaucratically as possible, e.g. by covering the costs for rents, health insurance, aid for subsistence prior to intermediate or final examinations.
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Landesstudienkolleg Halle
The preparatory college of Saxony-Anhalt is the first preparatory college in Germany. It is a cooperation of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and the Hochschule Anhalt. It conveys the required qualifications for a successful higher education including the adequate knowledge of the German language to particularly those foreign students whose previous experience do not correspond to the German admission qualifications. The department in Halle ("Studienkolleg" for short) is a central department of the country Saxony-Anhalt at the MLU in Halle. In addition, the college is a licensed test centre for the certification of the TestDaF. The college also carries out the professional-project together with the Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Since May 2016, the Studienkolleg at MLU has been supporting refugees who wish to study in Saxony-Anhalt with a special program. The aim of this support program is to prepare applicants with a refugee background linguistically, professionally and methodologically in such a way that it is possible to study in German at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, in Saxony-Anhalt or at another German university.
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Uniextern counseling and support services
Entknoten – counseling service against racist discrimination
Entknoten advises and supports in case of racist discrimination. The consultation provided is independent, confidential, free of charge and anonymously upon request. The advisory team consults in German, English and Farsi. Language mediators can be arranged, if necessary. The office is largely accessible free of barriers.
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Mobile counseling for victims of right wing, racist and antisemitic violence
The counseling advises and supports victims of right-wing extremist, racist, antisemitic, social Darwinist, homo- or transphobic attacks. The counseling provided is independent, free of charge, anonymous upon request and they take sides. They offer counseling at their office, at a place of your choice and online.
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Remembrance of Anton Wilhelm Amo at the MLU
Anton Wilhelm Amo is considered the first and, for a very long time, the only Afro-German academic. He studied in Halle and Wittenberg, where he received his doctorate in 1734. His Halle dissertation was devoted to the legal status of black people in Europe (De iure Maurorum in Europa), the Wittenberg dissertation to the body-soul issue (De humanae mentis apatheia). Amo worked there, as well as from 1736 in Halle and in 1739 in Jena as a lecturer of philosophy.
Among other things, Amo devoted himself to the rights of black people in Europe. His criticism was directed at laws that could not be justified rationally and at legal interpretations that were geared solely to the welfare of the legislators. With his admonition for humanity in jurisprudence, which in case of doubt should always take precedence over strict law, he proved to be an early advocate of human rights.
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Rectorate Commission Anton Wilhelm Amo
In 2019, MLU founded a working group, now active as the Rector`s Commission "Anton Wilhelm Amo," dedicated to the dignified memory of Anton Wilhelm Amo as the first Afro-German member of the university. The memory of his person and his work is part of the university`s history and thus of the present.
Amo`s tribute is a reminder that universities must be open to all people, regardless of ethnic, religious or other affiliations. It is done beyond stereotyping in the name of freedom from discrimination and with vigilance for unjust power dynamics. MLU acts in public space and with different groups and institutions. It tries to broaden and at the same time sharpen the view through the active, lively and open remembrance of Amo with lectures, award ceremonies, naming ceremonies and an appropriate public memorial place and thus also to make visible today`s tensions between social participation and discrimination.
The current juxtaposition of the Amo memorial plaque with the bronze sculpture "Free Africa" on University Square is inappropriate and precarious. It was supplemented by a stainless steel plaque in the summer semester of 2021, indicating that the commemoration was being reformed.
On a special page of the Prorectorate for Research and Education of MLU you will find comprehensive information on the work of the commission compiled.
[ Special page Anton Wilhelm Amo ]
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Interview: "A differentiated memory of Amo"
Commission Chairman and Prorector for Research Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Paul, explains in June 2021 in an interview in the university magazine `Campus Halensis`, how it came to its foundation and what should change in the Amo commemoration.
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Amo Lectures
The ANTON WILHELM AMO LECTURES have been organised annually since 2013 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg by the Research Cluster “Society and Culture in Motion”. They feature internationally acclaimed scholars presenting their ongoing research on themes connected to or emanating from the work of Amo.
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Anton Wilhelm Amo Prize
In memory and honor of Anton Wilhelm Amo, MLU has been awarding the Anton Wilhelm Amo Prize annually since 1994 for diploma, master`s, state examination and master`s theses or comparable achievements, with preference given to works by foreign graduates. The choice of Amos as the namesake of this prize is intended to emphasize that MLU is open to all people, regardless of religion and culture, skin color and origin.
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Art meets Culture of Remembrance: New Exhibition on Amo at MLU
What might a contemporary remembrance of Anton Wilhelm Amo look like, about whose life and appearance little or nothing is known? This is the question addressed by the new exhibition "Focus Amo. Images for a Scholar" at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), which will be on display in the Löwengebäude starting Friday, October 20, 2023. Nine artists have created a joint work for it that approaches the man and his life.
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Research at MLU
Etnology: African Studies in Germany through the lens of Critical Race Theory
The project "African Studies in Germany through the lens of Critical Race Theory" has prevailed in the new funding initiative "Aufbruch - Neue Forschungsräume für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften" of the Volkswagen Foundation: A team from the University of Bayreuth, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) is now jointly investigating African Studies in Germany from the perspective of Critical Race Theory. MLU will receive up to 138,000 euros for the project.
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Sociology: Better educational opportunities for young people from immigrant families in eastern Germany
Young people from immigrant families in eastern Germany are significantly more likely to attend high school than in the western Germany. At 56 percent, their share is even significantly higher than that of their peers whose parents were born in Germany - here it is around 45 percent. This is shown by a representative evaluation of the educational situation of young people, which was conducted under the direction of the MLU. In the West, just 28 percent of young people from immigrant families study at a Gymnasium. This large difference between East and West is also due to the social origin of the parents, as the researchers write in the "Zeitschrift für Soziologie".
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Romance Studies: Migration and Flight: Theater as a Space of Negotiation and Participation in a Franco-German Comparison (1990 to the Present)
How are flight and migration treated in German and French theater? What new opportunities arise for migrants? And how can theater contribute to overcoming political challenges? The junior research group "Migration and Flight" is investigating these questions.
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Sociology: Educational Integration of Children and Adolescents with a Refugee Background in Germany (EDIREG)
The educational integration of refugee children and adolescents is one of the most pressing issues in education policy and poses many challenges to the German education system. The research project EDIREG investigates the influence of individual-family conditions and regionally varying contexts of reception on the acquisition of competencies, educational transitions and participation of refugee adolescents in primary, secondary and vocational education.
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Educational Science: Cultural Diversity. How can prejudice be prevented in school classes?
Previous approaches to addressing cultural diversity in schools may reinforce prejudices instead of reducing them. This is suggested by a study led by researchers at MLU and the University of Potsdam. In a survey of more than 1,300 students, the team also found that a more nuanced approach to the topic could counteract these negative effects: Cultures should be discussed less schematically and with the help of striking examples, but as dynamic, individual and diverse. The results appeared in the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology.
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English and American Studies: Southern Belles and English Poets:
Intertextuality in White Southern Women's Civil War Diaries
"Belles and Poets" is the name of the book by PD Dr. Julia Nitz from the Institute of English and American Studies at MLU, which has met with great interest, especially in the USA. In the book, which is based on her habilitation, she analyzes the diaries of eight wealthy Southern women from the time of the American Civil War (1861-65) to show how deeply racism is still anchored in American society today and where the lines of tradition run. The university magazine `Campus Halensis` conducted an interview with her in April 2021.
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Law: Institutions and Racism (InRa Study)
In May 2021, the then federal government adopted a package of measures to combat right-wing extremism and racism. The implementation of this includes, among other things, the implementation of a nationwide and interdisciplinary study, the aim of which is to identify racist structures, especially in state institutions, to analyze the reasons and causes for them, and to develop instruments for counteracting them. Commissioned and funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs, this project is being implemented by the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (FGZ). In 23 individual projects at ten universities, "Racism as a threat to social cohesion in the context of selected societal-institutional areas" (in short: InRa study) will be examined until 2024. Research area C, to which the MLU sub-project headed by Prof. Dr. Winfried Kluth belongs, is particularly concerned with the transfer of knowledge in differentiated recommendations for institutional change processes. For this purpose, our subproject examines official decision-making processes with regard to racist unequal treatment and determines the causes for corresponding practices. In a second step, recommendations for instruments are to be further developed or established, which above all sensitize public authority employees to existing racist structures and behaviors and serve to dismantle them.
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Law: The protection of vulnerable persons in refugee and migration law
The European Union-funded research project "Vulnerabilities Under the Global Protection Regime. How Does the Law Assess, Address, Shape and Produce the Vulnerabilities of the Protection Seekers?" examines the question of how special protection needs of applicants are identified and the necessary assistance is provided within the framework of the admission procedure.
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Law: Research Center for Migration Law (FoMig)
The Research Center for Migration Law, which is affiliated with the Chair of Public Law of Prof. Dr. Winfried Kluth, is a platform that bundles information about activities in the field of research, teaching and scientific legal advice.
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Law: Rescue of Refugees at Sea and European Values
Who is responsible for refugees who arrive in Europe by sea and find themselves in distress at sea? What are the responsibilities and duties of the European Union and its member states in these cases? And what role does the European Convention on Human Rights play in this context? Legal scholars at MLU will provide a comprehensive overview of this complex topic in a new book in 2019. In it, they also show why the current legal situation leads to many problems and what alternatives there are.
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Literary Studies: Books from Buchenwald
PD Dr. Stephan Pabst has started an ambitious project: He wants to make accessible the literature that the Buchenwald concentration camp produced and discover as yet unknown works, also by Eastern European authors.
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Teaching at MLU
Summer Semester 2023
Allgemeine Schlüsselqualifikationen (ASQ)
- gender*bildet: Borderlands – Intersektionales Seminar zu Grenzen, Geschlecht, race zu politischer Willensbildung (Melina Morr de Pérez)
- Praxisprojekt Migrationsrecht (Prof. Dr. Winfried Kluth)
Juristische und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
- Zeitenwende im Umwelt-, Planungs- und Migrationsrecht (Prof. Dr. Winfried Kluth, PD Dr. Ulrich Smeddinck)
Philosophische Fakultät I
- Deutschland postkolonial?! Historische Kontinuitäten in der heutigen Migrations- und Integrationspolitik (N.N.)
- Frauen im Nationalsozialismus (Prof. Dr. Silke Satjukow)
- Großwildjagd, Männlichkeit und Kolonialismus/Imperialismus - die unheilige Trinität des „White Man's Burden"? (Dr. Marian Richling)
- Kolonialismus und Imperialismus als Gegenstand der Unterrichtsplanung (Dr. Marian Richling)
- Kulturwissenschaft in interkulturelle Perspektive (Prof. Dr. Zeljana Tunic)
- Migration und Stadt: Irregularität, Informalität und die Politik der Gegenwart (Ines Hackethal)
- Postcolonial Practices and Critical Debates (Jamal Ali Bashir, M.A.)
- Rechtsterrorismus. Erforschung und Diskurs (PD Dr. Imanuel Baumann)
- Traditionalismus, Populismus, Nationalismus (N.N.)
- Von europäischer Expansion zur Postkolonialismusdebatte – vormoderner und moderner Kolonialismus im Vergleich (Prof. Dr. Andreas Pecar, Prof. Dr. Patrick Wagner)
- Zusammenleben und Teilhabe in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft (N.N.)
Philosophische Fakultät II
- Auschwitz als Tatort und Erinnerungsort im Spiegel der Literatur (Marcel Matthies)
- Colonial American Poetry (Dr. Johanna Hartmann)
- Diaspora and Gender issues in contemporary ethnomusicological research (Parang Farazmand)
- Erzählungen von Flucht und Gewalt in der interkulturellen Literatur der Gegenwart (Dr. Nico Elste)
- „Es nahm als gute Beute ein Sklavenschiff uns auf“ – Afrika in der deutschen Literatur, 1800 bis Gegenwart (Dr. Steffen Hendel)
- Filmischer Widerstand. Dekolonialer Film aus Lateinamerika und der Frankophonie (Prof. Dr. Natascha Ueckmann, Michael Karrer)
- Flucht in der deutschen Literatur seit 2010 (Dr. Steffen Hendel)
- Frauen im Rechtspopulismus – deutsch-französische Perspektiven (N.N.)
- Indigenous America (Laura-Isabella Heitz)
- Kontrafakturen – postkoloniale und feministische Umschriften von Robinson Crusoe (Dr. Claudia Hein)
- Multicultural London (N.N.)
- "Mutter, erzähl‘ von Adolf Hitler!" - Literatur des Nationalsozialismus (Felix Kraft)
- Objects in Context: Gender, Race, Class (Esther Wetzel)
- Postcolonial Cultural Autobiography (PD Dr. Julia Nitz)
- Postmodernist African American Novels (Dr. Johanna Hartmann)
- Slavery in a Transatlantic World: Debates and Testimony (PD Dr. Julia Nitz)
- Transatlantic Slavery in British Museums (Esther Wetzel, PD Dr. Julia Nitz)
Philosophische Fakultät III
- Koloniale Kindheiten. (Post-) Kolonialismus als Thema der Historischen Erziehungswissenschaft (Jens Elberfeld)
- Literarische Mehrsprachigkeit (Dr. Astrid Henning-Mohr)
- Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturalität im Bilderbuch (Johanna Duckstein)
- Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit: Bildungserfahrungen unbegleiteter minderjähriger Geflüchteter (Dr. Anna Schnitzer)
- Normativität und Veranderung. Diskriminierungs- und rassismuskritische Perspektiven auf konkrete Unterrichtspraxis (Franziska Schreiter)
- Opferberatung und Ausstiegshilfen im Kontext Rechtsextremismus: Angebotsstrukturen und Interventionsformen (Frank Greuel, Frank König)
- Postkolonialität und Globalisierung: Herausforderungen einer vernetzten und multipolaren Welt für Bildung und Lernen (Prof. Dr. Daniel Wrana)
- Schule im Anspruch von Antidiskriminierung (N.N.)
- Schule in der Migrationsgesellschaft – Ein Überblick ausgehend von ungleichheitstheoretischen Perspektiven (Dr. Nora Friederike Hoffmann-Oelschlägel)
- Soziale Ungleichheit(en) und gesellschaftliche Transformation (Dr. Phries Künstler)
- Stuart Halls „Das verhängnisvolle Dreieck“ als migrationspolitischer Einsatz in pädagogischen Institutionen (Dr. Thomas Geier)
- Umgang mit jungen Geflüchteten und ihren Familien: Herausforderungen und Ressourcen (Lina Alhaddad, Dipl.-Psych. M. Sc.)
Theologische Fakultät
- Hexerei in Nigeria: Und Fragen nach 'Kultureller Aneignung' (Doris Günther-Kriegel)
- Kolonialismus, Globalisierung und das Weltparlament der Religionen 1893 in Chicago (Prof. Dr. Daniel Cyranka)
- Weltreligionen und interreligiöses Lernen im Religionsunterricht (Jörg Hellmich)
Winter Semester 2022/23
Allgemeine Schlüsselqualifikationen (ASQ):
- Diversity @University. Ringvorlesung zu Antidiskriminierung und Solidarität (Sabine Wöller)
- gender*bildet: Das Verhältnis von Rassismus und Feminismus weiterdenken (Dr. Dayana Lau)
- gender*bildet: Inklusion, Diversity, Intersektionalität – theoretische und aktivistische Eingriffe (Dr. Klemens Ketelhut)
- Praxisprojekt Migrationsrecht (Prof. Dr. Winfried Kluth)
Juristische Fakultät:
- Das Internationale Übereinkommen zur Beseitigung jeder Form von Rassendiskriminierung und seine Bedeutung in Deutschland im Kampf gegen Rassismus - ICERD (Prof. Dr. Winfried Kluth)
- Migrationsrecht (Prof. Dr. Winfried Kluth)
Philosophische Fakultät I:
- Antisemitische Stereotype – Die Dekonstruktion von Jud Süß (Vanessa Prattes)
- Grundlagen (inter)-kultureller Sozialisation in Bildungs- u. Erziehungskontexten (Prof. Dr. Maja Schachner)
- Migration im Comic (Prof. Dr. Jeannette van Laak)
- Museen intersektional betrachtet: Eine Annäherung an das Kunstmuseum Moritzburg in Halle (Elisa Kohl-Garrity)
- Nationen und Nationalismus im Mittelalter... und in den Mittelalterbildern der Moderne (Philipp Höhn)
- "Symbiose" oder "einseitige Liebesaffäre": Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland zwischen Mendelssohn und heute (Prof. Dr. Ottfried Fraisse)
- Transformationen im Pazifik – Dekoloniale Perspektiven (Janne von Seggern)
- Wer waren die Nationalsozialisten? Neue Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte im ‚Dritten Reich‘ (Dr. Anna Catharina Hofmann)
Philosophische Fakultät II:
- Dekoloniale Feminismen (Prof. Dr. Natascha Ueckmann)
- Erzählungen von Flucht und Gewalt in der interkulturellen Literatur der der Gegenwart (Dr. Nico Elste)
- Interkulturell lernen in Schule und DaZ-Unterricht (Julia Ritter)
- Literatur im Zeichen von Flucht und Exil (Marcel Matthies)
- Lyrik nach Auschwitz. Eine Debatte (Prof. Dr. Stephan Pabst)
- Migration (PD Anja Oesterhelt, Dr. Steffen Hendel, Prof. Dr. Natascha Ueckmann)
- Migrationsliteratur des 19. Jahrhudnerts (PD Dr. Anja Oesterhelt)
- Profilierung einer Haskala im Nahen Osten: Zwischen westlicher Aufklärung und muslimischer Nahda (Prof. Dr. Ottfried Fraisse)
Philosophische Fakultät III:
- Die Anderen der Bildung. Unterschiedliche Dimensionen von Heterogenität (Dr. Meike Penkwitt)
- Diversity in school and in teaching (Priscilla Krachum Ott)
- Eltern, Flucht und Schule: Rassismuskritische Elternarbeit - Eine Einführung (Jaël In't Veld)
- Migration, Biographie und Sprache: Schule in der Migrationsgesellschaft (Dr. Anna Schnitzer)
- Othering, kulturelle Passung, Ability, Heteronormativität und Doing Difference. Theoretische Herangehensweisen vs. kulturelle Artefakte als erkenntnisquellen eigener Art (Dr. Meinke Penkwitt)
- Umgang mit jungen Geflüchteten und ihren Familien: Herausforderungen und Ressourcen (Lina Alhaddad)
- Wir und die Anderen – Erziehung zum Internationalismus in der DDR (Jessica Dalljo)
Theologische Fakultät:
- Christentum und Krieg interkulturell (N.N.)
- Von der Missionskonferenz zum Antirassismusprogramm: Ökumene im Wandel der Zeiten (Dr. Thea Bettina Sumalvico)
Summer semester 2022
Interview: Looted Art: "Carried Off, Forgotten, and Repressed"
How do museums deal with objects looted during colonial campaigns? And how do they deal with the demand to return them to their countries of origin? A seminar at the Institute for Romance Studies dealt with this complex of topics. An interview in the university magazine `Campus Halensis` from September 2022 with seminar leader Prof. Dr. Natascha Ueckmann and student Lilly Fuß about research-based learning, frustration and overdue departures.
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Lecture series: Impulses for dealing with various aspects of racism and anti-Semitism in the training of lawyers
As part of this research project and to promote the ability to critically reflect on the law, the Chair of Public Law at MLU organized a thematic lecture series in the summer semester of 2022. Perspectives from both academia and practice on racisms and their structural, multi-layered anchoring in everyday life and language, as well as in law and legal education, were illuminated.
The lectures were recorded and are available here.
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Winter semester 2021/22
Lecture Series: Racism in the Enlightenment
The IZEA lecture series of the winter semester is dedicated to the topic "Racism in the Enlightenment". Dr. Devin J. Vartija from the Universiteit Utrecht, Prof. Dr. Matthias Kaufmann and Christian Müller M.A. from the MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink from the University of Saarland and Prof. Dr. Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (University of Bremen) deal with various aspects of the overtly racist patterns of thought that can also be observed among exponents of the Enlightenment.
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Summer semester 2021
Lecture Series: Reflections on National Socialism and Racism in the Context of Legal Education
The new constitution of Saxony-Anhalt contains an article that obliges each and every individual to take action against the spread of National Socialist, racist and anti-Semitic ideas. But what follows from this, and what does it mean for universities and especially for the training of lawyers? A new lecture series at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), which begins at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 10, will address these questions. During the series, Judge Ursula Mertens will also talk about her experiences in the trial of the Halle assassin. The lectures will take place as an online event.
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Networking at the MLU and in the city of Halle
Bi_PoC University Group Halle
Bi_PoC students network in the Bi_PoC university group at MLU. There are regular meetings and events at MLU. Interested parties are welcome to contact us at: bipoc.unihalle@web.de
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International Affairs Working Group of the Student Council of the MLU
Studying abroad has long since ceased to be a rarity around the world. However, international students are often confronted with additional challenges that make studying more difficult. The AK Internationales was founded by and for international students and wants to be a contact point at eye level that offers international students the opportunity to deal with problems independently and to develop their own solution concepts.
The AK aims to develop concepts that make university life and everyday life in Halle easier for international students. Participation in student life and in university political processes should be made possible and thus the voice, presence and representation should be increased. In addition, intercultural exchange and multilingualism are to be promoted within the student body and the university.
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Halle Postkolonial
The group "Halle Postcolonial", founded by students from different disciplines, is a group of young activists. The group sees itself as part of a larger movement that works to combat colonial continuities in numerous cities. Among other forms of action, they regularly conduct city walks to show, using the example of places in the city, how the racist, anti-Semitic normal state is maintained through the lack of addressing and combating structures that have existed since colonial times (among other things). In addition to educational work, they emphasize anti-racist solidarity and networking work in the city.
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Migrant Voices Halle
Migrant Voices Halle is an association of migrant and immigrant people in Halle (Saale).
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Projects and actions at the MLU
One university - one book: "Remembering as an ethical resource"
June 2023
"Memory in Complexity": On june 2023, the project for Charlotte Wiedemann's book "Den Schmerz der Anderen begreifen" ("Understanding the Pain of Others") officially started at MLU - with a moving evening in the auditorium, also because the author herself gave many personal insights into her work and life.
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Knowledge transfer: Much praise for video series on migration law
2023
Together with the German Red Cross, lawyers of the MLU have created a series of training videos on migration law. The first series is finished and freely available online. The feedback from the practice is very positive.
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Podcast: Diaries under National Socialism
2023
Writing diaries was extremely popular under National Socialism - among supporters of the regime as well as critics. Anyone who still has such a diary from their grandparents today can consider themselves lucky, because you can learn a lot from it. Melanie's grandparents also kept such a diary for their children. But how exactly does one go about reading it? And how should one go about it? Historian Janosch Steuwer from the University of Halle knows exactly. He has examined 140 diaries between 1933 and 1939. He says: with the so-called seizure of power in January 1933, politics literally forced its way into the diaries, because the Nazi regime demanded that people engage with it and fit their own lives into its ideology.
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Reappraisal of university history: How political were honorary doctorates at MLU?
2022
140 honorary doctorates were awarded at MLU between 1933 and 1989. On behalf of the Senate, the Commission for the Reappraisal of University History in the Dictatorships of the 20th Century has looked into them. Prof. Dr. Friedemann Stengel, head of the commission, and doctoral student Jakob Debelka talk to Unimagazin about the results.
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New Rectorate Commission for the Reappraisal of University History in the Dictatorships of the 20th Century
2021
A new Rector's Commission has been convened at MLU to review the university's history during the dictatorships of the 20th century. It is chaired by Prof. Dr. Friedemann Stengel.
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New plaque: University explains work on Amo commemoration
2021
MLU is working on a new concept to commemorate Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first Afro-German academic at a German university who worked in Halle and Wittenberg. At the Universitätsring, the rector and the chairman of the appointed rectorate commission inaugurated a plaque pointing out the disparity between the artwork "Free Africa" and a memorial plaque for Amo placed nearby in 1975
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University award for theology graduate for diploma thesis on the
Concept of the Occident and its Use by the New Right
2020
MLU graduate Philine Lewek received this year's Werner Krusche University Award from the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) and the Evangelical Church of Anhalt. The prize was awarded for her thesis submitted to the Faculty of Theology on the concept of the Occident and its use by the New Right. The regional bishop of Halle, Dr. Johann Schneider, presented the award on Tuesday.
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Student project: The bitter pill
2020
How do social factors influence your health? For example, what impact do the place you live or work have on your well-being? Students of journalism and medicine at the University of Halle swallow the bitter pill together and get to the bottom of health disadvantages on Instagram. @bittere.pille wants to show how the environment claims health. The project researches the places where diseases originate and shows that health is a challenge for society as a whole.
It deals with topics that otherwise receive too little attention. They present these in various media formats on their channel. This also includes discrimination topics such as racism in the health care system.
The bitter pill is part of the project "Diagnosis:Invisible", which makes the effects of social inequality on health visible in various formats. The project was created in the Multimedia and Authorship program at MLU. The project is funded by the international media network Are We Europe.
Note: The project has since been renamed "upstream.mail".
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MLU returns remains of indigenous Australians from Meckel's collections to Australia
2019
The mortal remains of five indigenous Australians passed from the Meckel Collections of MLU into the responsibility of Australia. The so-called "Repatriation Ceremony" was attended by the Director of the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology (IAZ), Prof. Dr. Heike Kielstein, as well as the Chairman of the Friends of the Meckel Collections and former Director of the IAZ, Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd Fischer, and the Head of the Department of University Medicine in the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Science, Uwe Paul, from Halle University Medical Center. Saxony's Minister of Science Eva-Maria Stange and representatives from the Dresden State Art Collections were also guests; the state returned mortal remains of 37 people to Australia.
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Student Project: Hanoi X Halle. Vietnamese Life Before and After 1989 in East Germany
2019
In 2017, MuK students Vivien Cockshot, Nam Nguyen, Jan Petter and Linh Pham worked on a project about the history of Vietnamese contract workers in Germany before and after 1989, combining memories, interviews and images to create a multimedia story. The project was developed as part of the practical seminar: "Multimedia" under the direction of substitute professor Dr. Werner C. Barg.
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the scrollytelling website was officially launched and tells in three portraits about the everyday struggle for a future, one's own job, against everyday hostility and racism.
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Language courses for refugees: Prepared for studies
2018
In 2016, the University of Halle launched programs for refugees who want to study. By mid-2018, around 600 young men and women had taken advantage of special language courses alone. With the help of funding from the state and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the focus is not only on the necessary language skills, but also on counseling before the start of studies. Student aid projects are also supported.
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Events of MLU
- 23. Mai 2023, 18 Uhr, Hörsaal IV, LuWu
Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Lecture
- 24. März 2023, 19–21 Uhr, KinoBar Zazie
Postmigrantische Perspektiven im Film
- 08. März 2023, 16–18 Uhr, Audimax
Film: Hidden Figures – Unerkannte Heldinnen
- 31. Januar 2023, 10-12 Uhr, Hörsaal V, Steintorcampus
Vortrag: Umvolkung und Austausch. Die Migrationspolitik in der Dichtung der Neuen Rechten
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