Event series ‘We stand together – in solidarity, committed, democratic’: Right-wing attacks on Social Work

Topic: Right-wing attacks on Social Work with Anna Blume Böttcher (RheinMain University of Applied Sciences).

Part of the event series: We stand together – in solidarity, committed, democratic.

Democratic values are coming under increasing pressure, including in academia and at universities. With this series of events, we are sending a clear message in support of an open, diverse and united university community. Together with guests from academia, the legal profession and the field, we want to discuss how we can stand up for democratic values at the BTU and beyond. We will be asking how right-wing attacks affect our fields of work, what the principle of neutrality means in a university context, how research and teaching might change if a right-wing party comes to power, and what role academia has to play in these times. Through lectures, panel discussions and workshops, we want to prepare for the future together with you and, across the whole university, form an alliance against the shift to the right. 

We look forward to seeing you there and to sharing ideas with you!

*Organised by the Diversity Working Group (Faculty 6, Institute of Urban Planning, represented by Pola Koch, Luisa Geldbach and Sinah Hackenberg) in collaboration with Dr. phil. Kevin Stützel (visiting professor for Methods of Social Work with a focus on community work, faculty 4, Institute of Social Work), Prof. Dr Melanie Jaeger-Erben (Faculty 5, chair of Sociology of Technology and the Environment) and Susanne Dyhr (Faculty 4, chair of Methods and Theories of Social Work, specialising in community work and the prevention of right-wing extremism, Monitoring against the Right).