To what extent is institutionalised social work in Germany and in general a tool for social justice? Can it even be that? Historically, social work has been primarily concerned with ‘shaping’ societies in the sense of a Eurocentric, white bourgeois norm and criminalising poverty, addiction, queerness, resistance to enslavement and oppression, and anyone and anything that challenged this norm, anyone who refused to conform or failed to fit in.

Can social work critically analyse this history and truly shake it off? Can it be radical or revolutionary and at the same time institutionalized? And what does it take to transform this discipline?

We will speak with:

• Dora Teloni (professor of social work/University of West Attica – Greece),
• Lea Ulmer (PhD candidate in Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) and
• Alan Dettlaff (professor and former dean of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work / founder of the upEND movement @upendmovement / author)

about present and history of social work and about what tomorrow’s generations of social workers can contribute to overcoming this contradiction.

Registration: medien@frauenkreise-berlin.de. Registered participants will receive the meeting link a couple of days before the event.

Donations starting from 2 EUR welcome.