Culture and political education

More Culture on Campus—for You and With You!

We want to create more cultural and regular activities on campus—for you and together with you. To help you find a balance amid the stresses of everyday student life, we offer the cultural course program as well as events as part of “Students Connect.” The cultural course program includes everything from self-defense and salsa to beginner-level language courses in Arabic or Spanish. Through “Studis vernetzen sich,” you can participate in our game nights, the running club, or the reading café.

Political Education: Social Criticism Instead of Training for the Job Market

When we at the AStA engage in political education, we reflect on the conditions at the university under capitalism. We see it as our mission to spark political debates among the student body. Through collective discussions, we aim to get to the root of the causes of exploitation, domination, and ideological delusion, and to expose legitimizing interpretations for what they are. If you’d like to explore these issues further, you can attend our socially critical tutorials or read our campus magazine, New Critique.

If you have any requests or suggestions for future programs, feel free to email us!

Lina Diedrichsen
Officer for culture and political education
kultur"AT"asta.uni-hamburg.de
Office hours by appointment

Franziska Wieder
Officer for culture and political education
kultur"AT"asta.uni-hamburg.de
Office hours by appointment

Cultural course programme

the start of each semester, we put together a comprehensive programme of around thirty to forty courses from a wide variety of disciplines: Would you like to learn a new language, perform theatre together with others, try out new types of dance, make music together, take photographs or fold origami? Courses from these and similar areas are part of our programme. In many cases, the courses are led by students themselves.

If you would like to find out more or offer a course yourself, go to www.kulturkursprogramm.de or send us an email to: kulturkurs"AT"asta.uni-hamburg.de

Socio-critical tutorials

At the start of each semester, the socio-critical tutorials that we initiated a few years ago also begin as part of the cultural course programme.

The socio-critical tutorials are events organised by students with a seminar character. In a mixture of seminar, tutorial and reading group, they deal with various social issues and theories that are underrepresented in the prevailing university environment.

Participation in the tutorials is free of charge and open to everyone.

If you would like to find out more or would like to offer a tutorial yourself, go to www.kulturkursprogramm.de or send us an email to: kulturkurs"AT"asta.uni-hamburg.de

Schnöde Neue Welt (‘Brave New World‘)

We would like to continue the successful event series ‘Schnöde Neue Welt’, which has introduced basic concepts of social criticism with over 30 different evening events over the past 3 years.

The event format wanted and wants to awaken the interest of students in conducting political debates and discussions on a wide range of different topics. From criticism of capitalism, feminism or anti-Semitism to questions of university history or climate change - the variety of topics was always an opportunity for first-year students and newcomers to engage with relevant topics in a socio-critical way for the first time. At the same time, the series was also able to fulfil its own aspiration of providing new food for thought for students who have already dealt with these topics through the selection of speakers. We would like to continue the series in this spirit. In line with the current situation surrounding the development of the coronavirus pandemic, we will be trying out new formats.

As a department, we will once again be organising the series in close cooperation with the Department for Anti-Discrimination and Social Movement in particular.

You can find the latest information at: https://www.facebook.com/SchnoedeNeueWelt/