Events
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Toolbox #11 – The Great Contradiction of Religious Studies and the Cultural TurnToolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #12 – Spaces/Geographies/Contradictions
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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“No More Bhopals” A Memorial Screening on the 41st Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy followed by a discussion with Dr. Satinath SarangiOn the night of December 2–3, 1984, a leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal released over forty tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas, exposing more than half a million people to one of the deadliest industrial disasters in […]
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Kick off Workshop – Peer MentoringFurther information will follow shortly.
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Toolbox #13 – Internal Workshop
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Toolbox #14 – Academic EnvironmentToolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium Contradiction Studies #1Workspace/Kolloquium #1 in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium #2
Workspace/Kolloquium #2 in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium #3Workspace/Kolloquium #3 in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium #4
Workspace/Kolloquium #4 in the winter term 2025/26
Past Events
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Workshop — How to Handle Your (Digital) Research Data Responsibility
Responsible handling of research data is an essential part of good scientific practice. When conducting research, it is not always easy to keep track of your research data. But what does responsible research data management (RDM) actually mean? The aim of this workshop is to […]
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Workshop and discussion with Onur Erdur | WOC Guest Professor 2025
In November 2025, Dr. Onur Erdur will be visiting the Research Training Group 2686 as WOC Guest Professor 2025. Following an input talk by the historian and cultural scholar, a workshop discussion (German/English) with the fellows of the Research Training Group will offer an opportunity […]
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Toolbox #10 – Language, Discourse and Contradiction
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Early Career VernetzungsworkshopEarly Career Networking Workshop as part of the 10th anniversary of the WOC Contradictions Festival with members of the WOC Graduate Network (WOC GradNet), the DFG Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies, the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), the Institute for Social Research (IfS) and the GRK 2638 Normativity, Critique, Change
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»Schule des Südens« – Onur Erdur in conversation with Karen Struve & Ehler VossOnur Erdur (Humboldt University of Berlin & WOC Visiting Professor 2025) in conversation with Karen Struve and Ehler Voss about his book Schule des Südens: Die kolonialen Wurzeln der französischen Theorie (School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory). A complete program overview […]
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On the Relevance of the Contradiction | 10 Years WOC – Contradictions Festival | Panel discussionPanel Discussion:Dr. Onur Erdur | Department of Cultural History and Theory & WOC Guest Professor 2025Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich | Institute of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main & Institute for Social ResearchProf. Dr. Rozena Maart | University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban & GRK2686-Mercator Fellow Moderation:PD Dr. […]
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Toolbox #9 – Textuality of Contradiction: from Rhetorics to Lyotard
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Contradictions Festival – 10 years WOCOn the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the interdisciplinary collaborative research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) is organizing the WOC Contradictions Festival from November 10–14, 2025, in cooperation with the DFG Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies, the Berlin DFG Research Training Group 2638 Normativity, […]
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We are Memory and Earth and Freedom and Hope | Performance LectureWith a commitment to the black body, the woman body, the queer or non-conforming body, the fugitive body, the errant body, the sick or uniquely abled body, the decolonial body, the collective body, and how it is seen, felt, loved, and cared for, Phoebe Boswell will […]
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Toolbox #8 – Antagonism
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26