Events

The panel discussion will be held in German and English with simultaneous translation.
After the recent elections in Spain, a stalemate emerged in which neither the PP- nor PSOE-led coalition of choice could unite a majority behind them. The Catalan nationalists from the left and right suddenly emerged as the kingmakers in the talks to form a government, ultimately enabling the re-election of Pedro Sánchez as Prime Minister in return for a controversial amnesty for Catalan independence advocates.

Paraconsistency is the view that logical contradictions do not imply everything, and dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are actually true. Though both views are currently unorthodox, they have recently been at the centre of a number of debates in logic and metaphysics. In this talk Prof. Graham Priest will explain these views, their history, and some of the issues that surround them.

Professor Graham Priest will give a formal model of dialectical progression, as found in Hegel and Marx. The model is outlined in the first half of the paper, and deploys the tools of a formal paraconsistent logic. In the second half, He will discuss a number of examples of dialectical progressions to be found in Hegel and Marx, showing how they fit the model.

Religiosität ist in vielen Fällen von einer Erfahrung der Sprachlosigkeit und einer Begegnung mit dem Unsagbaren geprägt. Doch wie ist mit dem Widerspruch des Sprechens über das Unsagbare umzugehen und wie lassen sich Sprachlosigkeit und Unsagbarkeit forschungspraktisch untersuchen? In unserem primär religionslinguistisch jedoch interdisziplinär offenen Workshop möchten wir dieser Frage nachgehen und anhand verschiedener Methoden und Konzepte Zugänge zum Sprechen über das Unsagbare diskutieren.

Dr. Katrin Antweiler will be a guest at the research colloquium of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the TU Berlin on 29 November at 6 pm, where she will speak about her recently published book Memorializing the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums.