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General Students' Committee (AStA)

The AStA meets once a week during the semester, currently every Monday at 5 PM, usually online. If you would like to attend a meeting, we will send you the link. If you want to discuss or present something, please get in touch with the relevant department in advance.
https://asta-udk-berlin.de/de/asta/

08.07. - Empowerment-Workshop for BIPoC Students «Surviving White Academia»

27.06.22 • admin_asta

Registration until 06.07.: antidisberatung@asta-udk-berlin.de

<< Surviving White Academia >> - yes, but how exactly? Answers to this question are varied, contradictory, sad and strange. What actually happens to me due to the colonial practices? How can I take care of myself without blaming myself when at the end of the day I am still at the end of the line? 
We look for the first steps together, the speaker will share the knowledge and experiences of other students.

Workshop 22.06. - Raising Awareness: Racism, Racialization, Critical Whiteness – An Introduction

15.06.22 • admin_asta

Registration by the 19th of June is necessary!

The workshop "Raising Awareness" is about an introduction to the topics of racialization and critical whiteness. The participants are brought up to date with regard to racism research. It will therefore be more about a factual, scientifically sound lecture on which we will exchange ideas and, if necessary, develop strategies together for the promotion of diversity, empowerment and intersectional anti-discrimination at the UdK Berlin. At the same time, personal reflection is extremely important in this area, and the workshop will provide a few pointers in this direction.

Open Call for Student Curators! - EXTENDED UNTIL 23.06.

28.05.22 • admin_asta

We are looking for three student curators for the following event:

 

participatory and plural? - A day of action by the UdK Berlin on December 5th, 2022

 

On the way to becoming an art university that is more sensitive to diversity and  more critical of power, the Berlin University of the Arts is reflecting on its understanding of intersectional accessibility and its institutional actions. In addition to internal exchange, dialogue with professional associations, initiatives and communities is sought. The focus of the action day is on the perspectives, analyzes and experiences of those positions that experience racism, (hetero/cis) sexism and/or ableism, etc.

Creating access is a task that is as complex as it is central for artistic universities as social actors. This does not only apply to access to the institution as students, employees or scientists. In artistic practice, standards and requirements are not only highly individual, but are also subject to constant revision and criticism by the specialist discourses as well as by the practice itself. However, recognizing when and how standards have a discriminatory effect requires just as much attention and energy: While “access” involves many individual processes and moments of recognition and communicative openness, depending on the perspective, these can also have the effect of exclusion.

The central question of the action day is: How can measures to dismantle exclusive mechanisms in the sense of a comprehensive and art-immanent understanding of "access" communicate with the requirements of artistic practice and their job descriptions?

 

Text and title are working versions and can still be edited. Students with experience of racism, (hetero/cis) sexism and/or ableism are given special consideration in the application process.

 

Please contact the Diversity & Anti-Discrimination Officer, Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz, at the latest by June 23rd, 2022 at diversitaetsbeauftragter@udk-berlin.de

 

A short expression of interest by e-mail is sufficient. If you have any questions about the event or the tasks of the student curators, Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz is also available by e-mail or telephone.

Information about the 9€ ticket

27.05.22 • admin_asta

We currently have the following information about the 9€ ticket:

- You do not need to buy a 9€ ticket! Your semester ticket is valid for all three months (June, July, August) as a 9€ ticket. 

- You can use the ticket all over Germany for public transport (all buses, trams, trains, underground and regional/local trains)

- It can’t eve used for long-distance travel (ICE/IC/EC, Flixtrain, long distance busses)

- The difference between the 9€ ticket and your semester ticket will be refunded

- How will be refunded is currently being discussed between the AStA and the VBB. We will inform you as soon as there is a fixed outcome.

- For urgent questions, write an e-mail to aussenpolitik@asta-udk-berlin.de