Awards for diversity-sensitive teaching
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Call for entries 2025
TU Dresden will once again award the Diversity-Sensitive Teaching Award in 2025. The aim of the teaching award is to recognize teachers and / or teaching concepts that deal with diversity or one or more dimensions of diversity in the sense of TU Dresden's 2030 Diversity Strategy. In this way, the courses and teaching staff help to sensitize students to diversity. At the same time, the teaching award is intended to demonstrate the high relevance of diversity-sensitive aspects in excellent teaching.
Students and teaching staff can submit proposals from April 7 to May 27, 2025. The courses to be honored will be selected by a selection committee based on defined criteria. A total of €10,000 in annual prize money is available from the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State governments.
All information on the call for entries can be found on the website for the call for entries - Diversity-Sensitive Teaching Award 2025
Award-winning courses and teaching staff 2025
Diversity in the subject area "International Law"
Prof. Dr. Ajla Skrbic (she/he)
Prof. Dr. Ajla Skrbic is being honoured for two courses that deal with issues of diversity in the field of international law: the seminar "Gender and War: Sexual Violence and the Shifting Landscape of International Law" and the colloquium "Critical Approaches to International Law". Both courses take a critical look at international law. In the seminar, this was done primarily by working with case studies and examining feminist, queer and postcolonial perspectives on topics such as war, justice and sexual violence. The colloquium, on the other hand, focused on postcolonial and feminist positions and thus raised awareness of existing inequalities in international law
Invisible Worlds: Blindness in art
Dr. Elisabeth Ansel
Dr. Elisabeth Ansel is being honored for the seminar "Invisible Worlds: Blindness in Art". This is dedicated to blindness in art and art theory and spans an arc from the period around 1800 to contemporary art. Based on the criticism of ocularcentrism raised by disability studies, the aim is to open up new approaches to works of art beyond vision in both university and museum contexts, linking questions of perception with current issues of AI, technology and vision.
Key Texts in American Cultural History
Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker
The lecture deals with key texts as starting points for a deeper understanding of American cultural history and its relevant periods, places, demographic groups and often contradictory dynamics between ideals and realities. The lecture will show how such texts negotiate controversial issues and produce and shape knowledge - for example, on freedom and equality and on the formation of different publics before and during the process of nation-building. In addition, Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker will be honored for his long-standing commitment to diversity-sensitive teaching.
Exercise in theoretical mechanics
by Charlotte Bäcker
The "Exercise in Theoretical Mechanics" particularly addresses and empowers FLINTA* people (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans
and agender people) and thus underrepresented groups in STEM subjects.
The consideration of diversity aspects in a low-threshold range of courses,
is particularly exemplary for these degree programs.
The jury also awarded three honorable mentions this year to
- the TUTORING team led by Dipl.-Psych. Maja Gültekin (Center for
interdisciplinary learning and teaching) for the digital certificate course on
basic methodological and didactic qualification for tutors and the resulting
resulting multiplier effect
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Lasch (Chair of German Linguistics and Language History) for his many years of
Linguistics and History of Language) for his long-standing commitment to diversity-sensitive
teaching with a special focus on barrier-free communication
- Dr. Sven Leuckert (Chair of English Linguistics) for the
seminar "Pronouns in English and Beyond" with a special focus on the
linguistic discussion and classification of gender-neutral pronouns.
pronouns.
The Unit Diversity Management would like to congratulate this year's award winners. We would like to thank them, all applicants and the members of the selection committee for their commitment to diversity-sensitive teaching at TU Dresden.
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