Events
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Workspace #13 – Welcome
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Workspace #14 – Project Presentation2–3 PM | Clara Müllenmeister
— Wider die Norm. Zweifelsfälle referenzieller Geschlechtszuschreibung
Discussants: tba
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Workspace #15 – Writing Workshop—pt. 1Writing an academic thesis is a complex process that presents its own challenges. Dr. Birgit Schreiber, a social researcher, journalist, and coach from Bremen, together with journalist Uwe Buse, will teach how to reliably navigate this process in this two-day workshop, which provides guidance on effective self-coaching. The workshop is offered bilingually (English, German).
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So wie wir sind. Plurale Gegenwarten. Wer erzählt den Osten?Wir freuen uns in Kooperation auf folgende Veranstaltung im Rahmen der globale°-Festival für grenzüberschreitende Literatur hinzuweisen. Die Podiumsdiskussion wird von Klaas Anders moderiert: Wer erzählt den Osten – und wessen Perspektiven prägen bis heute unser Bild von Ostdeutschland? Die Geschichte der deutschen Einheit wurde lange […]
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Workspace #15 – Writing Workshop—pt. 2Writing an academic thesis is a complex process that presents its own challenges. Dr. Birgit Schreiber, a social researcher, journalist, and coach from Bremen, together with journalist Uwe Buse, will teach how to reliably navigate this process in this two-day workshop, which provides guidance on effective self-coaching. The workshop is offered bilingually (English, German). Practical exercises will be conducted as much as possible using texts provided by the participants.
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Workspace #16 – Guest Lecture & Discussion
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Workspace #17 – Workshop
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Workspace #18 – Guest Lecture & Discussion
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Workspace #19 – RTG 2686 Collaboration Partners—Series Pt. 1/2026— Building Bridges to the Bremen Art Whor. An Excursion to Weserburg. Museum für modern Kunst
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Workspace #20 – Guest Lecture & DiscussionImagining Infrastructure: Agency, Artefact, and the Rise of the Neo-human Subject
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Workspace #21 – Workshop on Research Methodology—pt. 1— Research Approaches and Methodologies Reflecting specific research projects within the broader spectrum of possible research approaches and methodologies.
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Workspace #22 – Workshop Research Methodology—pt. 2— Fellow Research Approaches and Methodologies: A Hands-on Follow-up Contextualizing RTG 2686 Fellow projects within the broader spectrum of research approaches and methodologies
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Workspace #23 – Workshop & Wrap-Up— Deep Dive Reading and Reflection on the Writing Process: Writing and Text Feedback Techniques
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Workspace #24 – Guest Lecture & Discussion— Relevance: The Epistemological Value of Scientific Research
Past Events
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OMEN—Filmscreeningas part of the exhibitionAnys Reimann: MirrorballRTG 2686 collaborating with Weserburg. Museum für moderne Kunst, CITY 46 Bremen, Afrikanetzwerk Bremen | Organized by Dr. Nelson Sindze Wembe
About the film | In his feature film debut, musician, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist Baloji explores in a compelling way how profoundly belief shapes the fate of his four main characters. OMEN is a visually powerful film incorporating elements of surrealism and magical realism—an impressive testament to the creative energy of contemporary African cinema.
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The Tree of Authenticity—Filmscreening as part of the exhibitionAnys Reimann: MirrorballRTG 2686 collaborating with Weserburg. Museum für moderne Kunst, flux – Café. Bar. Begegnungen, Afrikanetzwerk Bremen, KlimaWerkStadt Bremen, and Lucie Garten. | Organized by Dr. Nelson Sindze Wembe
The documentary The Tree of Authenticity (2025) by Congolese filmmaker, photographer, and video artist Sammy Baloji explores the relationship between colonialism and the climate crisis through the perspective of the Tree of Authenticity. Starting from the remains of a former tropical agriculture research center in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Baloji investigates the connections between colonial exploitation, scientific research, and today’s climate crisis.
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Workspace #13 Project Presentation & Wrap upEllen Masur
— Feminist Rewriting als Praktik des Wi(e)dersprechens. Eine empirische Untersuchung von mehrdimensionalen Wirkweisen feministischer RechtsauslegungProf. Dr. Yan Suarsana
— Wrap-Up
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The Environmental Impact of LiteratureIs contemporary literature—and storytelling in general—helping to address the accelerating climate and nature crisis, or adding fuel to the fire? Tens of thousands of articles in literary and cultural criticism have approached this question primarily through close readings of environmentally focused novels and films, but […]
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Workspace #12 — Project PresentationsJean Marie Bakaïwé Ngabra
— Der Einsatz von KI-Tools zur Förderung der Schreib- und Sprechkompe-tenz im DaF-unterricht: eine Untersuchung der Motivation von DaF-Lernenden am Beispiel KamerunMiguel Ángel Prieto-Castellanos
— Becoming Aware of Ignorance and Contradiction
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Workshop on Jacques Derrida by RTG 2686 Mercator FellowWorkshop on Jacques Derrida This workshop offers an overall account of the work of Algerian born Jacques Derrida, educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, between 1949 and 1956. His work has been read within a broad range of […]
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GRK 2686 — Networking Retreat
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Workspace #10 — Project PresentationsThomas Itsuo Fujishima
—Imaginaries of More-than-human Resistance: Life, Farming, and Posthuman Politics in JapanYash Gupta
— Of मिर्ची in Our Blood: Intergenerational Dis/abilities and Toxic Contra-dictions of Postcolonial Care in the Survivor Narratives of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
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Workshop — What Am I Doing Here? Power, Positionality, and Contradictions in Ethnographic ResearchEthnographic researchers can find themselves confronted with a deceptively simple question: What am I doing here? In the field, researchers regularly encounter moments of uncertainty, ethical tension, and contradiction, particularly when working from feminist and intersectional perspectives that foreground questions of power, positionality, and responsibility. […]
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Workspace #09 — Project PresentationsClara Müllenmeister
— Wider die Norm. Zweifelsfälle referenzieller GeschlechtszuweisungJana Faber
— Rechtskämpfe um Feminizide. Strategien im Spannungsfeld zwischen Feminismus und Abolitionismus