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Monday, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.), weekly from 07.04.2025
Room 20044, Forum am Domshof

The interdisciplinary lecture series is explicitly aimed at students from various disciplines, in particular law, sociology, psychology, but also labour and social sciences, public health, business administration, business psychology and linguistics. Freedom from violence at work and in private life is still not a matter of course, which is why the International Labour Organization (ILO) set important legal frameworks in 2019 with its Convention 190 on the ‘Protection of Persons from Violence and Harassment in the World of Work’ and the European Union (EU) in 2011 with the Istanbul Convention on ‘Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence’, but their implementation in people's lives has only been partially successful so far; sometimes there have even been setbacks. On very different levels and in different contexts, the interdisciplinary speakers will trace phenomena of violence, make them more comprehensible and point out the need for action and possible solutions.

The importance, scope and diversity of the topic of violence in our society, often towards women and girls, as well as the high relevance of corresponding problems for all academic disciplines, unfold in the synopsis of interdisciplinary considerations throughout the lecture series.

Credits for students of the University of Bremen are possible. Please register via Stud.IP!

Presented by the World of Contradictions Research Lab ‘Violence Age and Gender’:

Prof. Dr. Ursula Rust (Bremer Institut für Gender-, Arbeits- & Sozialrecht, bigas)
Dr. Sylke Meyerhuber (artec Forschungszentrum Nachhaltigkeit)
Dr. Ruth Abramowski (Socium Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik)

Programme

14.04.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.), Room 20044, Forum am Domshof
Introduction to the interdisciplinary lecture series (in German)
Prof. Ursula Rust (Jurist) & Dr. Sylke Meyerhuber (Psychologist)

ILO Convention & Istanbul Conventio – Diversity of options and requirements for action (in German)
Prof. Ursula Rust (Jurist)

28.04.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.)
The forgotten quantity. On the place of violence in the social sciences (in German)
Prof. Klaus Schlichte (Soziologist)

05.05.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.)
Nomopathy – everyday violence in grey areas of status, law and morality (in German)
Prof. Thorsten Fehr (Neuroscientist)

Violence, power and work in couple relationships (in German)
Dr. Ruth Abramowski (Soziologist)

12.05.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.)
Experiences of women affected by violence with the help process and help system using the example of Bremen (in German)
Reading unit: The Istanbul Convention
PD Dr. Iris Stahlke (Socialpsychologist)

19.05.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.)
Violence in the private household workplace – action perspectives for domestic helpers in the context of care dependency (in German)
Reading unit: The ILO Convention Nr. 190
Prof. Guido Becke (Labour scientist, IAW)

26.05.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.)
Intercultural conflicts and solutions in healthcare facilities (in German)
Prof. Christel Kumbruck (Organisational psychologist)

Understanding violence in context – psychological & intersectional (in German)
M.Sc. Marie Püffel (Clinical psychologist)

02.06.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.)
What do we mean by gender when we talk about violence in the workplace? (in German)
Dr. Arn Sauer (Social scientist, Director of Bundesstelle Gleichstellung Berlin)

16.06.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.)
On the difficulties of legally defining gender relations (in German)
Specialisation topic (1)
Prof. Konstanze Plett LLM (Jurist)

23.06.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.)
The Istanbul Convention from the perspective of criminal law (in English)
Specialisation topic (2)
Dr. Fatma Karakaş (Jurist)

30.06.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.)
New inequalities & vulnerabilities of the digital transformation as structural violence (in German)
Specialisation topic (3)
Dr. Sylke Meyerhuber (Labour psychologist)

07.07.2025, 10:00-12:00 (s.t.)
Overarching considerations (in German)
Specialisation topic (4)
Dr. Ursula Rust (Jurist) & Dr. Sylke Meyerhuber (Psychologist)