Katharina Bauer of Erasmus School of Philosophy has obtained a NWO SSH Open Competition M grant (OC M). She receives this grant, with a maximum budget of 400.000 euro, to develop her research project on ‘Dignity in Place’ for migrant communities.
About the NWO SSH Open Competition M grants
In 2022, the NWO (Dutch Research Council) launched a revised format for the NWO SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) Open Competition. Within this format the OC M Call for proposals is specifically intended for free, curiosity-driven research projects with a primary social and/or humanities research question, aimed at excellent disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary research.
About Katharina Bauer
Katharina Bauer is an associate professor of practical philosophy at Erasmus School of Philosophy. She obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 2016 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. In her work she is connecting different traditions – from Kant to poststructuralism –, and building bridges between academic philosophy, other disciplines, and civic society. Against the background of her research on fundamental ethical ideals (such as dignity; authenticity; autonomy), she investigates the impact of current societal, technological, and ecological challenges on the self-constitution of moral agents. She was a Visiting Researcher at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M. (Feodor-Lynen Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation). In 2021 she was awarded a Comenius Teaching Fellowship. From 2021 to 2022 she was a Visiting Professor at Freie Universität Berlin.
‘Dignity in Place’ for migrant communities
Katharina Bauer’s OC M project is titled “Dignity in Place – Dignified practices and spaces for migrant communities’’. Migrants often experience fundamental challenges to their dignity, being trafficked and exploited in passage and on arrival, risking and losing their lives, being humiliated in populist political discourse as well as in everyday encounters. This project investigates undignified experiences and dignified practices of migrant communities from a philosophical perspective. It thereby adds a currently missing experiential dimension to traditional philosophical debates on dignity. This project will close this research gap by generating a deeper philosophical understanding of ‘dignity in place’ in collaboration with (religious) migrant communities who seek to create ‘dignified spaces’ for themselves in two exemplary superdiverse cities in NL and DE. The project will contribute to uncovering the conditions under which built environments in urban settings can afford and support the dignity of their users. We focus on urban contexts because cities are the places with the largest religious and cultural diversity.
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