Student-Run Groups & Meetups
Black Student Union
During the first Townhall meeting in June 2020, it was mentioned that there is the desire for a space or forum where Black students can meet and organize to not only exchange their experiences but find ways to efficiently advocate for their issues. The Black Student Union is currently in the “building” process. So, everyone interested in taking part in creating a Black community on campus is more than welcome to join and bring in their ideas.
Website: https://bsuhu.wordpress.com/
Contact: Black Student Union wedeservetoholdspace@gmail.com
BIPOC Meetup “Kitchen Table Talks”
SPEKTRUM – a forum and third space for a living experience of diversity
This explicitly non-activist forum SPEKTRUM offers anyone who is affiliated with German-speaking academia and who seeks information, backup, networking, and hence reliable support within a safer (due to pandemic issues temporarily virtual) space, which is autonomous and works with a community agreement that ensures safety, a helpful platform. For anyone studying, teaching, and/or working in academic spaces and spheres, some words, specific situations, subject matters, and/or tasks might quickly become intimidating, difficult to digest, frustrating, annoying, and/or offensive. What usually follows are feelings of being hurt and then nowhere to go to at once. Others might be puzzled and also feel like being disqualified without understanding why this is. As a result, specific questions might start to dart across one’s worried mind, such as: How should I have reacted much better? Where did I go wrong? Where to get first aid? This is an emergency, what to do now? Will I experience this again, over and over?
The communication languages, for now, are German and English.
Contact/Sign up: s.p.e.k.t.r.u.m.divers@gmail.com