Podcast at Deutschlandfunk Nova: Hörsaal
Who comes to the university? Who teaches there? What is taught and what is researched there? Universities have a public educational mandate and are supposed to be open and neutral. Do they fulfill that? No, says social scientist Johanna Leinius.
The university is a mirror of society, says Johanna Leinius, the scientific director of the Cornelia Goethe Center at the University of Frankfurt. However, she does not mean this in a good way, because universities reproduce injustices in society, she explains - racism, for example, or sexism.
In her lecture, she uses studies to describe the various dimensions of inequality and discrimination at universities.
The lecture (in German) can be listened to on Deutschlandfunk Nova.