Discrimination and Difference

Discrimination and Difference
Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Freie Universität Berlin
June 14th and 15th 2012
Thursday, June 14th
13.30 – 14.00
Welcome addresses
Prof. Dr. Michael Bongardt (Vice President of Freie Universität Berlin)
Christine Lüders (Head of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency)
14.00 – 16.00
Equality and inequality
Ethical questions of equality and difference
Dr. Sarah Elsuni (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Matthias Mahlmann (Universität Zürich)
Prof. Dr. Hubert Rottleuthner (Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Ute Sacksofsky (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M.)
16.00 – 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 – 18.30
Overcoming discrimination or (re-)construction of difference?
On problems of application of antidiscrimination law
Prof. Kimberlé W. Crenshaw (University of California, Los Angeles)
Doris Liebscher (Antidiskriminierungsbüro Sachsen)
Prof. Maleiha Malik (King's College London)
Tarek Naguib (Égalité Handicap, Bern)
Friday, June 15th
9.00 – 11.00
Integration, participation and assimilation
Political challenges of the realization of equality and acceptance of
difference
Dr. Nina Althoff (Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte)
Prof. Dr. Eva Kocher (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/O.)
Prof. Dr. Philip Kunig (Freie Universität Berlin)
Mario Peucker (University of Melbourne)
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00
Final discussion
Future developments in antidiscrimination law, research and politics
Location:
Seminar Center in Silberlaube, L 115
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
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Please register via e-mail:
Institute for Sociology of Law
Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Law
Van’t-Hoff-Str. 8, 14195 Berlin
Telephone: +49 30 838 54701 Fax: + 49 30 838 53174
E-Mail: [email protected]