645612 VO Cultural Encounters and Conflicts: Doing Diversity in Higher Education in the Aurora European Universities Alliance (Aurora Brown Bag Lecture Series)

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645612
VO Cultural Encounters and Conflicts: Doing Diversity in Higher Education in the Aurora European Universities Alliance (Aurora Brown Bag Lecture Series)
VO 2
5
weekly
annually
English

Students will learn about diversity and its use as a societal resource. They will receive an insight in different approaches to diversity studies and their application in the context of higher education. They further get to know the current networking initiatives of the universities within the European Universities Alliance and benefit from the international exchange.

Non subject related competences:

These Learning Outcomes have been formulated in alignment with the Aurora Competence Framework (LOUIS) which is based on the VALUE rubrics developed by the AAC&U.

(Civic Engagement) Students are able to analyze knowledge (facts, theories, etc.) from one's own academic field an make relevant connections to civic engagement and to one's own participation in civic life, politics, and government.

(Critical thinking) Students are able to describe problems clearly and comprehensively, delivering all relevant information necessary for full understanding.

(Ethnical Reasoning) Student states both core beliefs and the origins of the core beliefs.

(Global Learning) Students analyze substantial connections between the worldviews, power structures, and experiences of multiple cultures historically or in contemporary contexts, incorporating respectful interactions with other cultures.

(Intercultural knowledge) Students demonstrate adequate understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.

Culture, diversity, and identity are all highly contested concepts and generate tension. Especially the notions of culture and identity have been reviewed critically for their potential to evoke essentialism and for their use in rhetorics and practices of segregation and discrimination. Diversity, however, is associated with an appreciation of difference and social inclusion. Universities have committed to this concept of diversity, not only in academic debate but also on the level of mission statements, administration and recruitment. Diversity has become a key aspect in the self-image and social commitment of universities.

We therefore propose to address the concept of diversity in higher education and its multi-faceted effects on university life. Our starting point is the understanding that society is shaped by a dynamic interplay of categories like gender, race, and ethnicity, class, age, and (dis)abilities. These categories influence access to economic, social and legal resources and they affect a sense of membership and belonging as well as experiences of social in- and exclusion.

With inequalities on the rise in the age of globalization, the university strives to be/become/remain a diverse, open, and egalitarian institution while battling a variety of internal inequalities and differences (intellectual capacities and their relation to class background, merit-based access and equality, neo-colonial conditions of knowledge production).

We have invited colleagues and students from different disciplines, status groups and geopolitical locations of the Aurora European Universities Alliance to share their insights and approaches on diversity in their institutions of higher education. They will address questions and challenges of promoting diversity in enrolment, teaching and recruitment of faculty and staff. How is diversity reflected in social entrepreneurship? What is the student experience of diversity in different countries and types of universities? In short: How do we do diversity in higher education?

This course benefits from the international perspectives on the topic of diversity but it is also an opportunity to strengthen the Aurora network and exchange for student and faculty.

Lectures followed by a session of questions and answers.

Further information (streaming) can also be found at: https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/info/2021/ringvorlesung-diversity-in-higher-education.html 

Summary and reflection of three sessions (max. 1,200 words) for BA students, summary and reflection of five sessions (max. 2,000 words) for MA and PhD students. PhD students are further invited to participate in informal meetings to further discuss the topic of diversity in higher education.

This lecture series is part of the international Aurora teaching program and therefore requires a special registration between 30 August and 30 September 2021: Universität Innsbruck – Universität Innsbruck (uibk.ac.at)

Please note that you do NOT need a letter of motivation for this course.

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Date Time Location
Wed 2021-10-06
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2021-10-13
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2021-10-20
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2021-10-27
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2021-11-03
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2021-11-10
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2021-11-17
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2021-11-24
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2021-12-01
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2021-12-15
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2022-01-12
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2022-01-19
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2022-01-26
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)
Wed 2022-02-02
12.00 - 13.30 online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie) online (Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie)