We are very delighted to win Professor Bacchus-Prince as our international expert.

Let me briefly introduce Bacchus-Prince.

She is professor of citizenship and diversity at the Hague University of Applied Sciences.

She taught women's studies, cultural studies and social and political philosophy at several

Dutch universities.

She was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the Institute

of Women's Studies of the University of Lancaster.

Her research areas are feminist theory and cultural studies with focus on intersectionality

as a narrative construct.

In the field of political philosophy, she's dealing with multiculturalism and feminism,

the individual and society and citizenship.

And she analyzes public debates on integration and immigration both in the Netherlands and

from a comparative perspective.

Her international publications appeared in very well-known journals like the Journal

of International Migration and Integration, the European Journal of Women's Studies, Social

Theory and Practice, Ethnicities and last but not least, the well-known Sage Handbook for

Women's Studies.

We are excited to know and learn more from you about the situation in the Netherlands.

For example, your university has a relatively high percentage of students with an immigrant

background with 33%.

Additionally, there are 12% of international students.

This has rounded the Hague University from our perspective into a truly intercultural

environment with all the problems and promises that go with it.

So we are looking forward for your presentation named, titled, Cultural Issues, Hot Issues

on Teaching Diversity in Dutch Higher Education.

Thank you very much, Anja and Ebru for inviting me for this presentation.

And yes, I hope I can share with you some interesting information about the situation

in the Netherlands and specifically on the Hague University of Applied Sciences where

I work since 2009 as a lector, as it is called.

I think that the institution like the Hague University of Applied Sciences in Germany,

what we call the Hochschule, is that like higher vocational training kind of school.

Okay, I will first tell you something about the Hague University of Applied Sciences.

As Anja already said, it is a very, very inter-ethnic, multi-ethnic environment.

We also have a beautiful building.

That's why I showed some pictures of that.

We have 55% of native Dutch students, almost, well, 32% of students with an immigrant background.

And then the largest groups are from Turkish, Moroccan, Surinamese, or Antillian descent.

And then we have a lot of international students, a lot of them from China, but also from Eastern

European countries.

So this is a bit of the background.

It is a big universities and we have a variety of academies on all kinds of topics.

Do they teach like productive design on products, but also teachers training?

There's an academy of government law and security, but there's also an academy of social work.

So it's a whole variety of kinds of educational perspectives.

Now I started this job in November 2009 as this electorship in citizenship and diversity

because the university thought that it was an important issue to do more research on.

Now how important and sensitive the issue was, was immediately clear for me a month

after that I started my job because it was December 2009 and my university ended up in

a huge affair.

What was the case?