For her dissertation entitled “Relationality of human dignity. On the status of people with intellectual disabilities in terms of justice theory”, Dr. Regina Schidel was awarded the WISAG Prize 2024.
The prize is awarded annually to the best dissertation in the social sciences or humanities that deals with the processes and conditions of social cohesion. The prize is endowed with €5,000 and was first established in 2008 by company founder Claus Wisser († 2023).
Dr. Regina Schidel is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the “ConTrust – Trust in Conflict” research initiative at the “Normative Orders” Research Centre and wrote her thesis at the Institute of Political Science and the Institute of Philosophy. Her first supervisor was Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst.
Her excellent thesis analyzes the form of discrimination of ableism, i.e. the discrimination of people with cognitive impairments, from a philosophical and socio-theoretical perspective. When asked what posed a particular challenge during her research process, the prizewinner replied: “Particularly at the beginning of my research, I repeatedly encountered the prejudice at workshops and specialist conferences that issues relating to intellectual disabilities and discrimination against people with cognitive impairments were not actually ‘philosophical’ because philosophy is the discipline that deals with reason and rational subjectivity”.
The prize will be awarded on June 25 from 5 p.m. at the Academic Celebration of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of Goethe University e.V. on the Westend Campus of Goethe University, Lecture Hall A, SKW Building. Further information and registration for the award ceremony: Here…
