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Opening Conference of SFB 882 - 1st Day of the Conference

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1st Day of the Conference: Opening Ceremony (in German)

Thursday, September 20th, 2012,
Bielefeld, Ravensberger Spinnerei, Großer Saal

Despite or precisely of the idea of treating all humans as equals, a variety of kinds of social inequality is discussed in our society: differences regarding income and power, inequal treatment of women and men, or educational inequalities between ethnically dominating and minority groups are only a few examples which are discussed again and again. Now, if we assume that such inequalities are inseparably connected to the variety and difference between humans, from the social-political and scientific point of view there arise the following questions:

  • How do social inequalities develop and how are they legitimated by society?

  • In which way is the variety of individuals and groups made a topic of discussion and how does it become relevant for inequalities?

  • In how far are reliable statements on social inequalities possible at all?

  • Finally but not least, in view of social cohesion, there is the question about the limits of the structure of social inequality: How much inequality can be tolerated by our society?

Programme 1st day of the conference:

7.00 p.m. Welcoming address
Prof. Dr. Rolf König
Vice-Rector for finance and resources, Bielefeld University
7.15 p.m. Introduction
„Wie sind stringente Aussagen zu gesellschaftlichen Ungleichheitsstrukturen möglich?“
Prof. Dr. Martin Diewald
Speaker of CRC 882, Bielefeld University
7.30 p.m. Public Key Note Lecture
„Zur Entstehung und Legitimation sozialer Ungleichheit“
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann
Bielefeld University
8.00 p.m. Panel discussion
„Wie viel Ungleichheit benötigen wir? Wie viel Ungleichheit vertragen wir?“
Dr. Norbert Blüm
Former Federal Minister		 Dr. Antje Vollmer
Former Vice-President of the German Bundestag
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Stefan Hradil
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz		 Prof. Dr. Ulrike Detmers
Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences) Bielefeld
Moderation: Petra Pinzler
Journalist for DIE ZEIT, author		  
9.30 p.m. End of day 1
zum 2. Konferenztag