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Short description:

This international lecture series inaugurates the first Berlin University Alliance’s Guest Chair,
the DiGENet-(Diversity and Gender Equality Network’s) Audre Lorde Guest Chair for
Intersectional Studies. What does Critical Diversity Studies look like in a Postcolonial 21st
Century Berlin? How does Audre Lorde’s influence echo in the conceptualizations of radically
inclusive Diversity research? How are marginalized groups, who hold little social power active
agents in the processes involved in institutionalizing diversity and decolonizing white- und
westcentric knowledge structures. How does Critical Diversity Literacy provide a new
didactical frame? In her inaugural lecture Prof. Auma will explore Intersectional Realities and
the possibilities of Intersectional Diversity Studies from Audre Lorde’s Germany, from Audre
Lorde’s Berlin. Guest speakers Intersectional Scholars and Diversity Workers will offer
transnational perspectives on Institutional Diversity, intersectionalizing Diversity Research and
shifting power towards a more inclusive academy.


Reading List:

Ahmed, Sara (2021): COMPLAINT. Duke University Press.
Online: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-1771-4_601.pdf

Ahmed, Sara (2012): On being included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham/London: Duke
University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5236-5

Fraser, Nancy (2017): Vom Regen des progressiven Neoliberalismus in die Traufe des reaktionären Populismus.
In: Heinrich Geiselberger, Hrsg. Die große Regression. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, S. 77–91. ISBN 978-3-518-
07291-2 [Rezension bei socialnet]

Holvino, Evangelia (2010): Intersections: The Simultaneity of Race, Gender and Class in Organizations Studies.
In: Gender, Work and Organization. 17(3).

Michaels, Benn (2006): The Trouble with Diversity: How we learned to love Identity and to ignore Inequality.
New York: Holt Paperback.

Okech, Awino (2020) African Feminist Epistemic Communities and Decoloniality. In: Elelwani Ramugondo,
Shose Kessi, and Zoe Marks (Eds.): Journal of Critical African Studies, Special Issue: “Decolonizing the
Academy!”, Volume 12:3, Pp 313-329, Taylor and Francis, Milton Park Abingdon.

Vertovec, Steven (2012): ‘Diversity’ and the social imaginary. In: European Journal of Sociology. 53(4), S. 287–
312. ISSN 0003-9756

Yuval-Davis, Nira (2011): The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations. London: Sage. ISBN 978-1-
4129-2130-5

Zanoni, Patrizia, Maddy Janssens, Yvonne Benshop und Stella Nkomo, 2010. Unpacking Diversity, Grasping
Inequality: Rethinking Difference through Critical Perspectives. In: Organization. 17(1), S. 9–29. ISSN 1350-
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