Events
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Antifeminismus im digitalen Raum. Der Einsatz von Invektiven und Widersprechen als Mittel der Delegitimierung feministischer Proteste
The lecture is part of the conference “Das geht zu weit!” organized by the research group Diskursmonitor. Linguistic-communicative strategies of legitimizing and delegitimizing protest in public, media and political discourses will be discussed.
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Toolbox #Onboarding
On June 5th, we welcome the second cohort of Doctoral Students to our internal Colloquium aka Toolbox in the Summer Term of 2025, introducing the concepts and methods of Contradiction Studies.
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Toolbox #1: All about Contradictions
Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025
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Meditations on the Sea and its African Subjects, and the Complexities of European Nationalism
In this presentation, I engage with the African body that lands on European beaches via the Mediterranean sea, dead by exhaustion from crossing the ocean or dead as a consequence of boarding a vessel, which has capsized because it was not equipped to carry the embodied subject identities of Africans leaving the continent to seek refuge on the European continent: the continent of the European coloniser who had usurped African land and people, kidnapped African labour starting in the fifteenth century whilst simultaneously exploiting and extracting raw materials to develop its wealth in an ailing, starving, and disease infested Europe.
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Toolbox #2: Heraclitus & Aristotle – Figures of Contradiction & The Law of Noncontradiction
Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025
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Welcome Retreat
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Toolbox #3: How to decolonize Contradiction | Resistance and Counterhegemony
Toolbox #3a | »The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – How to decolonize Contradiction (Gisela Febel & Kerstin Knopf)
Toolbox #3b | Resistance and Counterhegemony (Gisela Febel)
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Toolbox #4: Life/World/Concept
Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025
Past Events
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Trans*, Gender, Bodies and Sexhormones in Material-Discursive Entanglements
The accessibility to health insurance-funded gender-affirming hormone therapy in Germany is of central importance to many trans* people for their health, safety, and life trajectories. However, the decision about whether they can take hormones through the regular care-system is not in their hands but rather depends on various actors and institutions in the medical, psychotherapeutic, and political sectors.
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Between Inclusion and Exclusion: Czechoslovak Migration in Austria between Anti-Communism and Eastern Europeanism
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Ivan Kalmar, White But Not Quite: Is There Anti-Eastern European Racism?
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Visual Arts as cultural Symbiosis: A talk with Agnes Essonti Luque
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Exploring Contradictions beyond Contradiction
Contradictions are omnipresent and the identification of contradictions is usually accompanied by the imperative to resolve them. Contradictions can be ascribed to individual actions as well as to social formations. They extend to all areas of life: political orders, academic settings, religious practices and many more fields that are permeated by them. Without contradictions, there are no pluralities and no truths. Nevertheless, there is a long and powerful (especially European) tradition of problematizing and resolving contradictions and reducing them to logical incompatibility. This tradition of avoiding contradiction is countered by alternative concepts of thinking contradiction, above all in dialectics or paraconsistent logic (Priest/Tanaka [1996]2022). Contradiction Studies take up this reflection and move away from the widespread negative assessment of contradiction (cp. Febel/Knopf/Nonhoff 2023; Lienert 2019; Lossau/Schmidt-Brücken/Warnke 2019; Nintemann/Stroh 2022; Warnke/Hornidge/Schattenberg 2021). In this sense, our conference aims to explore contradictions beyond contradiction.
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Leiden an Unwahrheiten? Warum wir Wahrheit brauchen. Eine Diskussion zwischen Michael Hampe, Olivia Erna Maegaard Nielsen, Tammo Lossau und Jonas Trochemowitz
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Public vs. Private: From Marx Through Dewey to Arendt and Back
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RTG 2686 General Assembly
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Datenpolitiken im Spiegel der Contradiction Studies
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Netzwerktreffen GRK 2686 & globale° – Festival für grenzüberschreitende Literatur