On 29 October 2020, the series " Vielfalt im Dialog" at the TU Dresden will start with a panel discussion on the topic " Erinnerungsräume von Bewegungsgeschichten - BPoC Kollektive im Transformationsprozess".  Jane Weiß, Peggy Piesche and Katja Kinder will take another look at the history of German reunification and their own experience of this transformation process as women and BPoC, short for Black and People of Colour. The live-streamed panel discussion invites you to get to know this hitherto little-noticed perspective on German history and to join in the discussion afterwards. Jane Weiß is an educational researcher born in the GDR and is involved in the IniRomnja together with other Romnja and Sintizza. Peggy Piesche was also born and raised in the GDR. As a black literature and cultural studies scholar, she is responsible for the focus areas of diversity, intersectionality and decoloniality at the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Katja Kinder is co-founder of ADEFRA ( Schwarze Frauen* in Deutschland) and Black German educationalist as well as deputy executive director of RAA (Regionale Arbeitsstellen für Bildung, Integration und Demokratie e.V.) Berlin.

The panel discussion will take place in cooperation with the conference „Im Osten Was Neues? Intersektionale- Migrantische- BIPoC Perspektiven auf 30 Jahre (Wieder-) Vereinigungsprozess in Ostdeutschland“ and marks the start of the new series of events at the TU Dresden "Vielfalt im Dialog", which aims to enter into conversation with a broad Saxon public on topics of migration with various civil society cooperation partners in autumn and winter 2020. By means of diverse formats such as an art workshop, readings taking place digitally and panel discussions, new perspectives on topics of migration society are to be jointly developed and discussed against the background of current research findings and practical experiences. In addition to the Centre for Integration Studies (ZfI) of the TU Dresden, the Kulturbüro Sachsen and anDemos - Institute for Applied Democracy and Social Research are also involved in the project.

 "Vielfalt im Dialog", supported by the departments of Humanities and Social Sciences and Mathematics and Natural Sciences at TU Dresden, is part of the initiative "TU Dresden im Dialog", which has been in place since 2019. As a university of excellence, TU Dresden thus promotes the exchange between science and civil society. Science changes the living environment and also influences the social interaction of all people. That is why it is important to TU Dresden that citizens regularly have the opportunity to enter into direct exchange with scientists, to inform themselves and to participate in discussions. "TU Dresden im Dialog" offers this opportunity with various formats such as the events of "Vielfalt im Dialog" or Future Labs.

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