Fostering diversity and inclusivity in academia is something I feel very strongly about and so I'm trying to integrate work on this into my academic tasks. Here are some examples of projects I'm working on or have organized in the past:
As of April 2024 I am co-ambassador for the Society for Women* in Philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum. As such I plan and organize social and professional networking events aimed at women* but also more general minorities in philosophy.
As of October 2023 I am a member of the University Committee for Diversity. The committee's tasks are to organize and co-ordinate diversity- and anti-discrimination-related projects at Ruhr University Bochum. Specific examples are implementing concepts for All-Gender-Bathrooms, organizing awareness-raising workshops for the staff or plan and put into effect anti-discrimination measures for hiring processes.
A project that I initiated and now co-ordinate as part of the Diversity Committee is designing an "Awareness Concept" for academic events held at RUB.
I am one of the representatives for the academic staff of RUB on a board dealing with discrimination-related criminal offenses by students.
In November 2023 I organized a training workshop for the teaching staff in philosophy of RUB on "Dealing with Structural Injustice in University Teaching".
Since July 2023 I organise a biannual round table discussion between teachers and students of the philosophy department to discuss and evaluate teachers’ and students’ needs and expectations for seminars.
In April 2022 I conducted a workshop as ambassador of the philosophy department for female* students of secondary schools on formalizing arguments and (in)formal fallacies for the Girls’ & Boys’ Day 2022 (an established day in Germany to promote interest among students of 8th-10th grade in - stereotypically perceived - non-gender conform areas of expertise and jobs).
In December 2019 I co-organized a MAP workshop (Minorities and Philosophy) for first-generation undergraduate students on how to read and analyze philosophical texts.
Talk: Reduction procedures and the meaning of proofs (online, invited), The Logic Supergroup - Early Career Researcher Workshop, October 2021.
Talk: On the distinctions between sense vs. denotation and identity vs. synonymy of proofs (online, invited), Celebrating the World Logic Day - 2022: The meaning of proofs, January 2022, University College London.
Talk: How to secure uniqueness of logical connectives in bilateralism (or multilateralism) (invited), Explanatory Inference Seminar, January 2022, Institut supérieur de philosophie, UCLouvain.
Tutorial video (Logica MX Outreach Project): Logic for the understanding of logical connectives
You can find me on Twitter/X: @Sara_Ayhan_ and on Bluesky: @sara-ayhan.bsky.social
I was interviewed for a podcast, „Der Funke – Geschichten aus dem Leben“ (Audible Original), about how I came to do my PhD in Logic, what it is like to work in this area (as a woman) and at a university. Here’s a link to the podcast (Episode 17 „In der Fremde zu Gast und in der Logik zu Hause“ - the interview is in German, though).