Ulrike Davy, born in 1955, is a law professor at the Faculty of Law at Universität Bielefeld and member of the university council. Her fields of expertise include human rights law, anti-discrimination law, migration and refugee law, global and European social policy, German social security law, and welfare state theory.Antje Flüchter (Prof. Dr. phil.) is professor of early modern history at Universität Bielefeld and spokesperson of the collaborative research centre 1288 »Practices of Comparison«. Her research focuses on the history of entanglement, the history of religiosity, body and history, the cultural history of the political and the theory of history.