Events
Past Events
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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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Workshop #2 – Solidarity by Choice and Not by Co-optation: Getting to Know Each Other Using Different Data Stories
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Recht auf Widersprechen: Art. 37, 47 EU-Grundrechtecharta als Eigenrechte der natürlichen Umwelt
Lecture at the 8th Conference on Environment and Law (ProKUR) for doctoral candidates in public law with an environmental focus in Cologne.
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Workshop #1 – Data as/in Contradictions: Research, Practices, Politics (Postdoc Intro)
Drawing on the research projects of the postdoctoral Fellows of the RTG 2686, this three-part workshop invites our doctoral researchers to collectively reflect on the intersections between data and contradictions. We will explore how data is both shaped by political, social, and epistemic contradictions and, in turn, actively shapes these contradictions.
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Welcome Retreat
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Decolonial Feminist Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
This symposium seeks to explore the possibilities and contradictions surrounding AI. It brings together decolonial feminist perspectives and research on artificial intelligence and opens a space for critical reflection on living with and thinking about ethical futures in relation to AI.
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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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Introduction with Rozena Maart (Mercator Fellow)
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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 #1: All about Contradictions
Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025