Audre Lorde Visiting Professorship
The Diversity and Gender Equality Network (DiGENet) of the Berlin University Alliance launched a visiting professorship on diversity studies in the summer semester of 2021. The “Audre Lorde-BUA-VisitingProfessorship for Intersectional Diversity Studies” is named after the Caribbean-American writer, library scientist, and English professor Audre Lorde. She worked as a visiting professor at Freie Universität Berlin and between 1984 and 1992 was repeatedly in Berlin for longer stays.
The Audre Lorde visiting professorship is intended to shape contemporary, future-oriented diversity studies for and from a hyperdiverse, post-colonial metropolis. Its aim is to make this research visible – locally as well as transnationally – and to open it up to a broader debate. The visiting professorship is further intended to diversely shape Berlin as a research hub on par with the reality of urban society.
Call for Nominations: “Audre Lorde Visiting Professorship for Intersectional Diversity Studies” at Technische Universität Berlin, 2026
As part of its long-term commitment to foster diversity in research and teaching, the Diversity and Gender Equality Network (DiGENet) of the Berlin University Alliance offers a visiting professorship for internationally renowned academics who have distinguished themselves through internationally acclaimed research on Intersectional Diversity Studies. Preferably, the visiting professor connects their research and teaching of Intersectional Diversity Studies with global challenges – e.g. sustainability or digitalization or climate change. Preference will be given to so-called “Global South” candidates who demonstrate the transdisciplinary potential of their work by linking theoretical approaches to practical impact.
DiGENet members can submit nominations for the Audre Lorde-Visiting Professorship 2026 at Technische Universität Berlin, until May 28th, 2025.
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If you are not yet a member of DiGENet, you can register via email here. For any questions regarding the call, please contact the DiGENet Coordination at DiGENet@berlin-university-alliance.de.
Contact
Christian Richter, DiGENet Program Coordinator
Linh Müller, Coordinator Cross-Cutting Theme Diversity and Gender Equality