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On November 4, the director of the Institute for Media Research, Prof. Elizabeth Prommer, the Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Gender Equality and Diversity-Management, apl. Prof. Meike Klettke, and the artist Julia Theek, showed the first professors gallery of the University of Rostock. 47 female professors have provided their portrait photographs for it. The University of Rostock looks back on a 600-year history, the history of women at the University of Rostock began much later. 110 years ago, the first student enrolled, and in 1947 the first female professor was appointed. While women now study just as many as men, at the level of the professors it looks quite different: only every fifth professorship is currently occupied by a woman at our university. And also in other management positions a similar picture emerges. Therefore, the exhibition should put the female professors at the university in the center of attention the anniversary is celebrated. It should make their work even more visible and create female role models for female students and doctoral students.

The exhibition will remain open until spring of 2020 in the vestibule of the Council Room in the main building of the university.

^{The artist Julia Theek developed a common aesthetic denominator through a formal typification for a uniform design of the female professors gallery. The visual habits of the everyday world of advertising and Instagram were broken and the portraits with division into color areas, emphasis on light and shadow in the picturesque excessive. In addition the face was brought in the focus, without background, multicolored light in contrast to the antique dark man portraits. Instead of the gold frames, sustainability was emphasized in the production: The round image carriers, which stand out 5 cm from the wall, are cans for film rolls. To bring the different colors together, the film cans were sprayed by the artist and decorated with only a small gold rim. The artist Julia Theek comes from the streetart and has specialized in upcycling art with the summer academy "Lübzer Kunstspeicher".}

The Language Center, in cooperation with the Diversity-Management and the International House of the University of Rostock, offers a series of intercultural trainings for students, doctoral candidates and academic staff. The trainings are offered in German as well as in English. During the workshops, the competence to interact successfully and appropriately with individuals and groups of other cultures is developed and promoted. The participants are sensitized to specific concepts of perception, thinking, feeling and acting of people from different cultures.

You can find more information on the website oft the Language Centre.

From april 5^th until april 25^th the days of action against Anti-semitism will be held again at the University of Rostock. The Office for Gender Equality, Diversity and Health Management and the AStA want to contribute to a university-culture in which tolerance and cosmopolitanism are indispensable values. In times when reactionary movements and beliefsystems are experiencing a renaissance, we would like to encourage all university members and those who are interested to grapple with anti-semitic resentments. In particular, young people know anti-semitism exclusively from the school lessons and history books, while it is still socially acceptable today. To draw attention not only to historical, but also to contemporary forms of Anti-semitism, the spectrum of this year's action days ranges from lectures, workshops and city tours to a theatrical performance.

Also this year, the University of Rostock participates in the nationwide action days against sexism and homophobia. From November 6th to 25th, a colorful program awaits you and you!


Organized by the  Gender Queer AG

 For the 3rd Diversity Day 3 actions where organized at the University of Rostock:

•      Photo project "Our faces. Our diversity. Our university. #diversityUR"
•      Diversity training for the Rectorate and the AStA
•      Culinary diversity in Mensa Süd

More than 600 companies and organizations participated in actions for the 2015 Diversity Day. You can find an overview on the website of the Association Charta der Vielfalt e.V.

As usual throughout the year, there was also a culinary delight on June 9, 2015. This time regional and international delicacies met on the trays.

The action week "M-V on the plate - fine asparagus time" was supplemented to the diversity day with dishes from West and North Africa.

The gourmet journey began with Moroccan fettuccine and Arabian rider meat and found their destination in Senegal. One could look forward to Poulet Yassa, one of the most famous dishes of West African cuisine.

You will find an overview of the refectories' locations, current menus and information on action weeks on the website of the Studierendenwerk Rostock-Wismar.

This year, the variety at the University of Rostock will be experienced in a lyrical and poetic way, highlighting the importance of personal diversity for research and teaching:

• international poetry on posters: "WHO DOES IT MEAN? in June 2014 on the university campus
• international poetry evening "Give us a poem" / Diversity-Party on June 3rd at the Rostock International House / Akademisches Auslandsamt Uni Rostock

With these events, the Rostock International House in the International Office and the Coordination Office for Equal Opportunities and Diversity of the University of Rostock support the nationwide day of action, in which companies and organizations participate with more than 400 actions. "Diversity companies!" is the motto of the 2nd German Diversity Day, an initiative of the Association Charter of Diversity e.V. The University of Rostock has been giving its signatory to the Charter five years ago.

The University of Rostock sees diversity as an opportunity. In the sense of an open "university for all", the study and working conditions have to be designed in such a way that every single person can develop their potential and optimally develop their individuality. Come and talk to us.

We look forward to your poems!

Contact:

Daniela Boltres

Rostock International House

im Akademischen Auslandsamt Universität Rostock

Tel. 0381/498-1189

E-Mail: rih.io(at)uni-rostock.de

www.uni-rostock.de/internationales/rih

Diversity Tag an der Universität Rostock

Dr. Kirstin Kastell

Tel.: 0381/498-1042

E-Mail: kirstin.kastell(at)uni-rostock.de

www.uni-rostock.de/ueber-uns/vielfalt

More information: www.charta-der-vielfalt.de and www.deutscher-diversity-tag.de.

CALL to take part in the poem poster campaign WHO UNDERSTANDS IT?

Participate in the poetry and poster campaign WHO UNDERSTANDS IT? and submit a self-written poem in your native language by 11 May 2014. The most beautiful poems will be published in June 2014 on posters on the university campus. The best three poems will be presented on June 3, 2014 at the Diversity Party in the Rostock International House under the motto SCHENK US A POEM.

Conditions of Participation for the poster campaign WHO UNDERSTANDS IT?

The students and employees of the University of Rostock are eligible to participate.

It is allowed to submit 1 poem per person. Since the poems are published on posters, they should preferably not exceed the size of 20 lines.

The following formats can be submitted: Word documents and audio file / video file

In addition to the title of the poem, please also include your first and last name, your country of origin or the language in which the poem is written, your field of study or profession and your contact details (telephone, e-mail). Since the posters should also contain a German translation, please enclose a translation.

The deadline for submissions is May 11, 2014.

Submission of the contributions by mail to: Daniela Boltres: rih.io (at) uni-rostock.de

A selection of the articles will be published on the internet. The most beautiful poems will be posted on a poster in the University of Rostock in June and presented at a reading on June 3, 2014, as part of the Lyrics Evening at the International Office. The selection is made by a jury consisting of members of the International Office and the Coordination Office for Equal Opportunities.

Publication, copyright and usage rights:

The submitters assure that you are entitled to the copyright of the poems alone, they have all rights of use and no rights of third parties are affected. If, however, third parties assert claims for infringement of their rights vis-à-vis the organizer, the University of Rostock, the participant must indemnify and hold the organizer harmless.

With the submission, the submitters of the University of Rostock transfer the non-exclusive, temporally and spatially unlimited right to use their poems on the Internet, in exhibitions and printed publications. In addition, they agree that their poems may be used free of charge by the organizer and the media for the press work surrounding the Diversity Day at the University of Rostock and for the activities of the University of Diversity. All other rights remain with the participant(s). The contributions are used by the organizer for non-commercial purposes only. A transfer for commercial purposes is excluded.

Privacy policy and right of withdrawal:

The data submitted by the submitter will be mentioned when the poems are published and will be passed on to third parties involved (eg magazine editors). The participant expressly declares himself hereby and agrees to a naming in the context of the event and the reporting on it.

The participants are at any time free to revoke their consent to the processing of data and thus to withdraw from the participation. The revocation must be made in writing to the Akademisches Auslandsamt, Kröpelinerstraße 29, 18055 Rostock.

The legal process is excluded. A claim for publication of the contributions does not exist. By submitting a contribution, the submitting parties agree to accept the conditions of participation.

"Discriminating? Not me. Discrimination? Do not concern me."

Universities want to be cosmopolitan and tolerant. Nevertheless, sexism and homophobia exist in universities in different forms, including stereotypical identity requirements as well as discrimination or even violence based on sex, gender identity or sexual orientation.

One consequence of gender equality work in the past decades is that it is now often assumed that equal opportunities have been achieved. The "perceived equality" is high and has grown in recent years. Discrimination appears to be no longer existent, so that there seems to be little need for action. Also at universities.

In fact, the proportion of women in leadership and decision-making positions remains low, family work is poorly valued, and there are still traditional notions of femininity and masculinity. Party posters show half-naked women. Career coaches recommend not to show homosexuality in job interviews, if possible, in order not to reduce the recruitment opportunities. And trans* persons are allowed to choose between women's and men's toilets in public spaces or to stay in front of them with full bladders.

Such disadvantages affect many people. The forms of discrimination are very different; the exclusion mechanisms as well. For example, the naturalization of differences, devaluation, trivialization and marginalization have a similar effect.

With the action days against sexism and homophobia, the University of Rostock and its students would like to draw attention to the topic in all its facets and engage in a society in which gender and sexual orientation are no longer the basis for discrimination.