Claudia Machold
Presentation t.b.a.
Saba-Nur Cheema
Notwithstanding the scientific consensus regarding the early development of social categorization in children, the notion of the "innocent child," often associated with the notion of children's perceived inability to engage in practices of difference, persists as a prevailing truism. This notion is at least contested by childhood studies inspired by social constructivism, as agency is attributed to children: Children are conceptualized as actors. This prompts the following question: to what extent can practices of differentiation among children be interpreted? The manifestation of practices of differentiation among children is a subject that merits further investigation. The present research project investigates anti-Semitic differentiation practices among children, a topic that will be discussed in the forthcoming lecture.
Claudia Machold has been Professor of Educational Science with a focus on childhood research in elementary and primary education at the Institute for Elementary and Primary Education at the Goethe University Frankfurt since 2022.
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Saba-Nur Cheema is a political scientist, research associate at Goethe University Frankfurt and researches anti-Semitism in childhood. From 2015-2021 she was educational director of the Anne Frank Educational Center in Frankfurt and from 2020 a member of the German government's Independent Expert Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred, which was appointed after the attacks in Hanau. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Goethe-Institut.
Recent book publications include Muslimisch-jüdisches Abendbrot. Das Miteinander in Zeiten der Polarisierung (with Meron Mendel, Kiepenheier & Witsch) and Frenemies: Antisemitismus, Rassismus und ihre Kritiker*innen(with Meron Mendel and Sina Arnold, Verbrecher Verlag).
The event takes place in German.