Following these introductory thoughts, we cordially invite you to reflect on the following topics at the conference:

1. how to address class in social work practice?
a) How do professionals experience classism within their colleagues, also in the sense of a classist pre-structuring of the professional field?
b) What approaches to talking about poverty, including its biographical character, exist in social work?
c) What significance do shame and feelings of guilt have as barriers to talking about poverty and classism?

2) How to research poverty, mobility and classism/criticism?
a) What new and old questions do current research projects address in relation to classism?
b) Which ethical aspects need to be given greater consideration in research from a classism-sensitive perspective?
c) How do research projects change in the paradigm shift from poverty to a critique of classism?

3) How to critically reflect on dealing with class?
a) What opportunities for self-reflection can enable practitioners, students and academics to think critically of classism?
b) What creative approaches are conceivable?
c) What are the premises for a participatory-reflective approach?

Presentations (approx. 30 minutes and 15 minutes discussion)

Workshops (approx. 90 minutes)

Creative approaches as a means to self-efficacy, empowerment, resistance (as contributions for the cultural evening or conference workshops)

We welcome the submission of abstracts of max. 2,000 characters including spaces by 15.01.2025, stating your topic and the desired contribution format, which can be sent by e-mail as a PDF to klassismuskritik@hs-bremerhaven.de.

The joint publication of the contributions is planned after the conference.

possible until 01.06.2025

Conference participation: 50€

Students 5€

Boat trip: 30 €

Prof. Dr. Francis Seeck (TH Nuremberg): Class matters. Criticism of classism as a cross-cutting issue in human rights-oriented social work

Tanja Abou (University of Hildesheim.): Classism in the education system

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