Exploring Politics – Experiencing Democracy

Together, we are committed to promoting political and democratic education.

Events, activities and projects of political and democratic education at the HSZG (from March 2024)

With this overview, we would like to provide you with information on the topics of democracy and evidence-based political education at HSZG in and for our region. It covers activities that are primarily organized by HSZG members and offered on an optional or extracurricular basis.

The goal is to raise greater awareness of the university’s responsibility as an educational and research institution in the spirit of the Third Mission within this field as well, to promote dialogue between the university and society in the region as well as exchange within the university, and to create new points of connection.

The overview provides information on activities in four categories:

Teaching and educational events at the HSZG
HSZG events in the region—public and collaborative
Research and knowledge transfer projects
Publications and initiatives on political and democratic education

Are you planning additional events and projects, or have you already carried them out?

In that case, please send a brief message to research(at)hszg.de and we’ll be happy to include it in our overview.

Teaching and educational events at the HSZG

Overview from March 2024
22.04.2024 Campus Zittau	Environmental management Internal workshop on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and clothes swap Contact: Ulrike Bobek Further information
23.03.2024/ 22.05.2024 Campus Görlitz	Faculty of Social Sciences Internal workshop: Democracy gambled away?! Play, listen & discuss Contact: Prof. Dr. Nadine Jukschat and Dr. Monique Ritter Further information
13.-17.05.2024	Vice President for Education and International Affairs/Education Office Equal Opportunities Week and Teaching Day 2024 13.05.2024, Zittau Campus Public consultation by the Vice President on the topics of equal opportunities and intercultural communication Keynote speeches: Prof. Dr. Janina M. Vernal Schmidt as well as Dr. Stefanie Dreiack and Diana Hillebrand-Ludin (Coordination Office for Equal Opportunities Saxony) 14.05.2024, Mensa Zittau "Chancen-Talk" over lunch on equal opportunities in studying and teaching With: Prof. Dr. Sophia Keil 15.05.2024, Görlitz campus Teaching Day on the topic: Equal opportunities and diversity in studying and teaching - (not) an issue for the HSZG With: Prof. Dr. Sophia Keil, representatives of the StuRa, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weber (TUD), Dr. Monique Ritter and Sophie Ulbrich 16.05.2024, Campus Görlitz Workshop: ChanGe Hochschule: Chancengerechtigkeit durch diversitätssensible Lehre? Led by: Janna Burr and Julia Lochner 17.05.2024, online Workshop: Intercultural competence in university teaching - an introduction for lecturers With: Dr. Steffi Nothnagel, Diversity Consulting 17.05.2024, online Exchange Digital Teaching HSZG - Topic: Promoting participation through digital tools in teaching With: Robert Viertel Contact: Daniel Winkler Further information
Summer semester 2024 Campus Görlitz	TRAWOS Public lecture series in cooperation with the VHS Görlitz: Navigating in uncertain times - social crises and how to shape them 16.05.2024 Shaping fragile futures - are feminist perspectives or policies an answer? With: Dr. Julia Gabler, Prof. Sophia Keil (Vice President Education), Bernadette Rohlf (TRAWOS), Franziska Böhm (Feminist Forum), Markus Will (TRAWOS) 30.05.2024 Crises and age(ing)?! Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoff 13.06.2024 Za moju domiznu!? Sorbian life in a balancing act Speaker: Dr. Theresa Jacobs, Sorbian Institute 17.06.2024 Crisis, crisis, crisis - fad, new reality or modus operandi? With: Julia Gabler, Julian Nejkow and Clemens Kießling in the live podcast: "According to my knowledge immediately!" Contact: Cornelia Müller To the lecture series
12.06.2024 Campus Görlitz	TRAWOS Public workshop: Toxic masculinities - beginner's program for dropouts Speaker: Christoph May from the Detox Masculinity Institute Contact: Bernadette Rohlf Further information on the program
Summer semester 2024	Faculty of Social Sciences: Working Group "Democracy and Diversity" Principles of democratic (co)life at the Faculty of Social Sciencespublic About the principles
21.10.2024 Campus Görlitz	Faculty of Social Sciences in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education Workshop: Theater play NSU Monologues and accompanying workshop Contact: Prof. Dr. Nadine Jukaschat Further information
23.10.2024 Campus Zittau	Prorector Research/Staff Unit Research Public event: Opening of the Year of Science at the HSZG: "Those up there, us down there" - keynote, short impulses and panel discussion Contact: Kristin Sprechert Announcement
Winter semester 2024/2025 Campus Görlitz	Faculty of Social Sciences New elective module in the Studium Fundamentale: Reflected work in voluntary work Contact: Prof. Dr. Maja Dshemuchadse Further information
25.10.2025 Campus Görlitz	Faculty of Social Sciences in cooperation with Demokratie AG Ostsachsen Symposium2025 on the situation of youth work Contact: Prof. Dr. Nadine Jukaschat Further information

HSZG events in the region public & cooperative

Theater play entitled "NSU Monologues" followed by a panel discussion

Faculty of Social Sciences in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education

Monday, 21.10.2024, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Görlitz campus

Contact person: Prof. Dr. Nadine Jukschat

Further information

SPEAK UP! Professional, partisan and solidary perspectives for action in social work in dealing with the prohibition of gender-equitable language - symposium in hybrid format

Network "Verbinden & Verbünden", Darmstadt Protestant University of Applied Sciences and the Gender and Women's Research Center of the Hessian Universities (gFFZ) in cooperation with the HSZG

Friday, 13.12.2024, 09.30 - 16.00, In presence: Darmstadt Protestant University of Applied Sciences + Online

Contact person: Dr. Monique Ritter

Further information

If it weren't for the small but significant "but" - (East German?!) racism in geriatric care

Faculty of Social Sciences in cooperation with the VHS Dreiländereck and Saxony5

Wednesday, 16.10.2024, 18.00 - 20.15, CELSIUZ, Äußere Oybiner Str. 14/16, 02763 Zittau (Mandauhöfe)

Speaker: Dr. Monique Ritter

Information and registration

StrukturWANDEL conference "Struktur, wir wandeln dich Part II - Gender equality in transformation processes"

TRAWOS in cooperation with the Bündnis Gleichstellung Lausitz and the SMJuSDEG

Wednesday, 02.10.2024, from 12 noon, Weißwasser (TELUX)

Contact person: Dr. Julia Gabler

Invitation to the event
To the report
Structural change conference in retrospect - aftermovie

OLD SCHOOL, NEW SCHOOL, YOUR SCHOOL? The Democracy Conference of the City of Görlitz 2024

Partnership for Democracy City of Görlitz in cooperation with the HSZG

Wednesday, 18.09.2024, from 3 pm, Görlitz campus (auditorium)

Contact person: Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen

Further information
Research and transfer projects

Youth moves region - Region moves youth (JuBReg)

Collaborative practice project in the three-country region (2024-2027)

Marie Melzer
Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen (project management)

Further information
Project website

Engagement constellations in rural areas - an East-West comparison (ENKOR)

Research project (2021-2024)

Susanne Lerche
Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen (project management)

Further information
ENKOR final conference Berlin 18.04.2024

Shortage of nursing staff and migration (FuM) - Racism-critical organizational development in the district of Görlitz

Research project (2023-2026)

Dr. Monique Ritter
Prof. Dr. Mandy Schulze (project management)

Further information

Participation and partnerships in structural change (BePart)

Research project (2022-2025)

Emilia Socha
Prof. Dr. Nadine Jukschat (project management)

Further information

Elitenmonitor - Personal underrepresentation of East Germans in central leadership positions: Development over time, mechanisms, options for action

Research project (2022-2025)

Jan Schaller
Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen (project management)

Further information

Multilevel governance of illegalized migration at the edges of Europe - a comparative study of actors, configurations and lines of conflict

Doctoral project (since 2021)

Jan Schaller

Further information
Publications and impulses for political and democratic education

Perspectives for a gender-equitable shaping of structural change

PRESENTATION
22/23.01.2025, 18th Future Forum for Rural Development, Berlin

Dr. Julia Gabler and students of the Master's degree program Management of social change

Further information

Gender-sensitive research in rural regions - 10 years of research on women's lifestyles in regions undergoing structural change

BROCHURE
November 2024

Julia Gabler, Bernadette Rohlf, Susanne Lerche, Monique Ritter, Anika Noack, Annika Runge

To the brochure

Intersectionality

CONTRIBUTION
11.07.2024

Dr. Monique Ritter

To the article

Gender equality in academia? Dis/equalities in dealing with sexist practices in STEM subjects

CONTRIBUTION
July 2024

Dr. Monique Ritter, Bernadette Rohlf, Susanne Lerche

Information and articles

The beginning or end of conformism? - All about alienation

PERFORMATIVE THINKING SPACE
04.10.2024, LOFFT Theater Leipzig

The Theater der Versammlung / Center for Performance Studies at the University of Bremen created a joint performative thinking space together with moderator Friedrich Weißbach, philosopher Barbara Schellhammer, sociologist Nadine Jukschat, performer/artist Diana Wesser and the audience.

Prof. Dr. Nadine Jukschat

To the recording

Newsflash - Is this still democracy?

PUBLIC PODIUMS DISCUSSION
20.09.2024, 6 - 8 p.m., Naturparkhaus Waltersdorf

Pupils from the Pestalozzi secondary school in Großschönau in collaboration with the State Agency for Civic Education

Prof. Dr. Nadine Jukschat as a guest on the podium

LAUSITZ LAB "FOR ALL." COGNITIVE CAPITALISM, THE POPULARITY OF POP CULTURE

LECTURE
07.09.2024 Lausitz Festival, Cottbus

Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen

Further information

Right-wing populism and right-wing extremism

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

An offer of the University Library

To the overview

From exclusion to alienation? Realities and consequences of the underrepresentation of East Germans in the elites since 1990

CONTRIBUTION
07.08.2024

Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen, Jan Schaller

To the article

TRANSFORMATION AND UNITY: F(R)ICTIONS OF A SOCIAL PROJECT

LECTURE
19.06.2024, Dresden

Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen

Further information

Radicalization - a critical review

CONTRIBUTION
14.06.2024

Prof. Dr. Nadine Jukschat together with Dr. Katharina Leimbach

To the article

Racism and care for the elderly in East Germany

PODCAST
15.06.2024

Dr. Monique Ritter

Listen to the podcast

Racism and elderly care in East Germany. On the 'discomfort' in professional cooperation with migrants

MONOGRAPH
2024

Dr. Monique Ritter

To the publication

"Fundamental protest orientation", on possible reasons for the result of the European elections

CONTRIBUTION
13.06.2024 Topics of the day

Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen

To the article

An early shift for my Görlitz. Shaping Saxony as a land of science

CREATIVE WORKSHOP
10.06.2024, Görlitz

Further information

"Those up there": Raj Kollmorgen on GDR influences and right-wing populism in East Germany

INTERVIEW
10.06.2024

Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen

To the article

Environment Week

PODIUM
05.06.2024, Berlin

Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen

Further information

Link to the recording

Democracy in Saxony today: challenges and opportunities

IMPULS
30.05.2024

9th Annual Conference of the Democracy Center Saxony

Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen

To the press release

Balance sheet of catch-up modernization

LECTURE and PODIUM TALK
09.04.2024, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen

Watch the video

Distant elites - The underrepresentation of East Germans and people with a migration background

ANTHOLOGY
2024

Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen

Further information

Genesis East - Transformations of social work in Germany

PODCAST
08.04.2024

Prof. Dr. Mandy Schulze

Further information

Right-wing populism: what it is, where it comes from, why it is so strong today

LECTURE
15.03.2024

Sozialverband Deutschland (Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen)

Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen

Ansprechperson

M.A.

Fränzi Straßberger

Fraenzi.Strassberger(at)hszg.de

Rectorate/research staff unit

02763 Zittau

Th.-Körner-Allee 16

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1st floor

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Rectorate/research staff unit

02826 Görlitz

Parkstrasse 2

Building G VII, Room 315
2nd upper floor

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