Events

What is “East Germany”? We want to talk about a region often perceived as gray, cold, and politically right-leaning. We aim to discuss how East German lifeworlds are constructed in media representations, political debates, and cultural and literary narratives, navigating between self-description and external attribution, between memory and the present.

In fall 2025, Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) will be 10 years old. An overview of the planned program is available on the WOC website.

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

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.

The conference network “Discourse – interdisciplinary” offers a forum in which representatives of linguistics, sociology, political science, philosophy, literary studies, history The conference network “Discourse – interdisciplinary” offers a forum in which representatives of linguistics, sociology, political science, philosophy, literary studies, history and other cultural-analytical sciences reflect on and discuss the perspective of ‘discourse’, both subject-specific and interdisciplinary, disciplinary and interdisciplinary. This idea presupposes that a central task connecting the cultural sciences is the description and explanation of the meaning of discourses and their functions in society, history and other cultural-analytical sciences reflect and discuss the perspective of ‘discourse’ in a subject-specific and interdisciplinary, disciplinary and interdisciplinary manner. This idea presupposes that a central task uniting cultural studies is the description and explanation of the significance of discourses and their functions in society.

Conversation with Deborah Ekoka, Kwanza Musi Dos Santos and Samia Mohammed on their experiences as mixed-race persons living in a polarised world