Making teaching diverse – How can diversity be promoted in the seminar context and discrimination stopped?

Workshop

How can diversity in university teaching be actively promoted and discrimination specifically prevented? What exactly contributes to an inclusive, respectful learning atmosphere? Where is discrimination hidden in all the digital tools we use? What role do subconscious prejudices play in the teaching context? And should mistakes happen: How can they be addressed and dealt with? Prof. Dr. Lorenz Narku Laing provides answers to these questions and many more in a reflective, entertaining and discursive workshop entitled “Designing diverse teaching”, which is primarily aimed at teaching staff.

Laing is a professor of racism research at EvH Bochum and founder of Diversityberatung Vielfaltsprojekte GmbH. He advises DAX companies, theaters, federal ministries and leading NGOs on discrimination, among others. In 2023 he was honored for his work with the German Diversity Award and in 2021 with the Best Teaching Award of Zeppelin University. The diversity trainer also serves on the advisory board of the Bochum Center for Disability Studies, is a member of the presidential assembly of the Protestant Church Congress, a liaison lecturer at the Hans Böckler Foundation and advises the Federal Chancellery as a member of the Expert Commission on Antiracism. Laing is committed to combating discrimination in sport with his award-winning project “Sport shapes diversity”. He is a Senior Fellow of Humanity in Action e.V., a New Bridge Fellow of Atlantik-Brücke and was “Leader of Tomorrow” at the St. Gallen Symposium. He holds a PhD in Political Theory from the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at LMU Munich, a Master’s degree in Political and Administrative Science from Zeppelin University and studied Sociology, Philosophy and Law at GU Frankfurt.