Events
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Reading the Present with History. Reading the Past with AnthropologyThis talk focuses on an afro-diasporic community located in an Andalusian town (Southern Spain). It concerns a series of families whose identity is linked to the early modern slave trade, while Spanish mainstream society tends…
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Academic Freedom and Early Career Researchers. World CaféModeration: Hagen Steinhauer, Jessica Nuske, Jendrik Nuske, Kevin Kuhlmann, Sarabjeet Kaur, Jonas Trochemowitz What is the role of academic freedom in doctoral studies and scientific qualification? Is academic freedom under threat, and if so, what…
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Contradictions in Narrow Definitions of Gender-Based Violence Against Men During Armed ConflictPhilile Langa’s presentation will focus on gender-based violence against men during armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960-present). Her research is about challenging and shifting the understanding of what gender-based violence during…
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The Entanglements of Race, Gender and Sexuality: South African Indian ContradictionsDurban South African Indian people possess very heteronormative attitudes in their perception and enactment of gender and sexuality. In this talk, Braedon Steven claims that the racialization of Durban South African Indians, marked by British…
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Colloquium Contradiction StudiesPresentation as an Insight into the Case Study Transnationale Arbeitskämpfe in der Weinlieferkette
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Widerspruchsresponsives Recht: Suchformel gerechter NachhaltigkeitstransformationenPresentation as part of the conference Die Vielfalt des Rechts of the sociology of law section of the University of Marburg
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Exploring Contradictions beyond Contradiction
First international conference on Contradiction Studies
Past Events
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Colloquium Contradiction StudiesText discussion: Pages of Play: Towards an Analysis of a Pluriversal Digital African Aesthetic
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Memory Politics as Reparations? Sharing Perspectives from Namibia and GermanyMemory Politics are often juxtaposed with material forms of reparation. With the intention of countering this simplification, we have invited Laidlaw Peringanda to give a lecture followed by a talk with a member of the…
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Exhibition Opening „Wir wollen Demokratie, Marktwirtschaft und Pluralität“
On November 17th 1989, students protested peacefully in Prague. On the National Street, in the middle of the city, the demonstration was brutally beaten up by the police. This was the beginning of a social…
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WOC GradNet Lecture #4: Labeling Theory in Language and Sexuality StudiesIn his talk Heiko Motschbacher seeks to make a theoretical contribution to the field of language and sexuality (Motschenbacher 2022). His goal is to use the sociological approach of labeling theory (Becker 1963) to inform…
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35 Jahre Friedliche Revolution – Quo Vadis DDR-Erinnerungskultur in HamburgWith reference to the traveling exhibition Demokratie vor Ort – Persönliche Erinnerungen von Hamburger:innen aus der DDR, a discussion among experts will take place on the significance and development of the memory of the GDR…
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Colloquium Contradiction StudiesText Discussion on the Topic Between Practices of Contradiction and Positioning: First Results from the Analysis
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RTG 2686 Board Meeting
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Literature as Colonial Loot? Provenance Stories 1910–2021
Can literature – similar to stolen art – become colonial loot? The talk addresses the European appropriation of African literatures under colonialism and provides an insight into the research of literary provenance: from the recording…
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Was ist „Osteuropa“? Geschichte und Gegenwart eines widersprüchlichen KonzeptsSince the total invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, the term “Eastern Europe” has been omnipresent – whether in social media posts or feature articles: Everyone is talking about “Eastern Europe”. But what does…
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Colloquium Contradiction Studies