In the context of current conflicts over minority rights, anti-discrimination and diversity, practices of "awareness" have emerged in numerous public spaces as a method of avoiding discrimination. Sabine Hark and Sieghard Nickel discuss these instructions and behavioral programs that aim to take into account the feelings of people and groups who are considered socially disadvantaged. Hark and Nickel shed light on the self-contradictions that can arise from viewing individual feelings as inviolable signals of discrimination, thereby adopting social categories of origin, ethnicity and gender, which are typically used by many types of discrimination themselves. 

Sighard Neckel is Professor of Social Analysis and Social Change at the University of Hamburg and researches social inequalities and cultural change. Sabine Hark is Professor of Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the Technical University of Berlin and focuses on feminist theory and critical social research.

This event is part of the series "Zu Viel, Zu Wenig [Too much, too little]".