Interdisziplinäre Lehre: Meeting Global Challenges
Unjust societies
the critique
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Academic Responsibility
Co-founder of the interdisciplinary Center for Human-Animal Studies Aachen (CHASA)
Teaching and Research Area Gender and Diversity in the Engineering Sciences
RWTH Aachen University
Teaching and Research Area Gender and Diversity in the Engineering Sciences
RWTH Aachen University
Contact Person
Alina Meyer, b.a.
Schedulue
Start
29.04.2025
Time
Tuseday, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Place
Hörsaal IV (1010|141)
am Templergraben
Contents
There are many considerations as to what makes a society a just society – and some of them differ significantly from one another. It is perhaps easier to identify aspects that make societies unjust. These include sexism, racism, slavery, (legal) discrimination against minorities, anti-Semitism and new forms of discrimination through new technologies and media, e.g. through AI), but also general intolerance. Various forms of such injustices are to be the subject of the module: they are to be presented, historically contextualisedand, above all, critically examined.
Learning Outcomes
Raising awareness of injustices in society, recognising the beginnings of unjust societies, classifying (historically, in terms of the history of ideas and social history) unjust aspects of society and recognising their connections in worldviews and ideologies, the ability to critically analyse such injustices and knowledge of decisive counter-arguments against such world views and ideologies that incorporate such injustices, spread them and try to present them as (morally) legitimate.
Program
29.04.2025
Introduction
Apl. Prof. Dr. Wulf Kellerwessel,
Philosophisches Institut, RWTH Aachen
Sebastian Bernhard,
GDI, RWTH Aachen
06.05.2025
TOPIC Racism
Benedict Kenyah-Damptey,
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
13.05.2025
TOPIC Antisemitism
Prof. Dr. Simone Paganini,
Institut für Katholische Theologie
27.05.2025
TOPIC Discrimination through AI
Marie Decker,
GDI, RWTH Aachen
03.06.2025
TOPIC Torture
Dr. Annette Förster,
Universität Duisburg Essen
17.06.2025
TOPIC Sexism and Discrimination
Sebastian Bernhard,
GDI, RWTH Aachen
24.06.2025
(In)tolerance and (un)just societies
Apl. Prof. Dr. Wulf Kellerwessel
Philosophisches Institut, RWTH Aachen
01.07.2025
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Teilnahmebescheinigung (0 CP, unbenotet)
Protokoll mit Analyse (2 CP, unbenotet)
Fragebogen (3 CP)
