Events
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Toolbox #5
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Toolbox #6
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #7
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #8
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Contradictions Festival – 10 years WOC
In fall 2025, Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) will be 10 years old. An overview of the planned program is available on the WOC website.
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Early Career Vernetzungsworkshop
Early 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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Toolbox #9
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Workshop: Research Data Management
Further information will follow shortly.
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Toolbox #10
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #11
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #12
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #13
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium Contradiction Studies #1
Workspace/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 #3
Workspace/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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Film screening: “Black faces in white? space” followed by a discussion with the filmmaker thabo thindi (Berlin / Huhudi Township)
“Black faces in white? space” is a documentary by …thabo thindi that explores the complexities of Black people living in Germany. Through personal stories and interviews, it highlights issues of racial exclusion, identity, and resilience. The film questions how Black presence reshapes or is constrained within spaces not designed for them.
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Toolbox #4: Life/World/Concept
Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025
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Workshop #3 – Data as/in Contradictions: Research, Practices, Politics
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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