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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Unpacking Coloniality. Towards a Critical Engagement with Modern DiscourseModerated by Prof. Rozena Maart (U Kwa-Zulu Natal, RTG Contradiction Studies) Please register for the Workshop by E-Mail: shk.grk2686@uni-bremen.de
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Blackness as a Universal Claim. Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures and Black Power in BerlinIn this bold and provocative new book, Damani Partridge examines the possibilities and limits for a universalized Black politics. German youth of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and…
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Black Existentialism and Decolonizing KnowledgeDrawing upon ideas from Fear of Black Consciousness (Penguin, 2022) / Angst vor Schwarzem Bewusstsein (Ullstein Verlag, 2022), this talk will offer a portrait of Black existentialism, summarizing some of its key problematics with emphasis…
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The Allures and Pitfalls of Hashtag AcitivismDr. Deborah Nyangulu (RTG Contradiction Studies) Comments Fellow: Nelson Sindze Wembe (RTG Contradiction Studies) Guest: Dr. Daria Dergacheva (ZeMKI)
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Contradiction Studies. Exploring the Field“Contradiction” is a core concept in the humanities and the social sciences. Beside the classical ideas of logical or dialectical contradiction, instances of “lived” contradiction and strategies of coping with it are objects of this…
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Hegel (anti)kolonialHegel arguably developed and disseminated racist and pro-colonialist views. At the same time, he has been a source of inspiration for generations of progressive philosophers, incl. thinkers in the Black radical tradition and their accounts…
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Breaking) Barriers in Academia: Mapping the FieldThe dominant understanding of academia assumes that beneficial participation for all involved (students, early career researchers, academic staff…) is based primarily on the ability to make a valuable intellectual contribution to research. In reality, however,…
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Material-Discursive Apparatusses and Hormonal Bodies. Living in Contradiction to Gender-Binary BiopoliticsHelen J. Stephan Comments Fellow: N.N. Guest: N.N.
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Desire, That Obscure Subject. The Contraditory Role of Desiring Bodies in Contemporary MovementsVanessa Lara Ullrich | Universität Bielefeld
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Experimenting with Collaboration. Between Transformism and Transformation
Hanna Schwamborn Comments Fellow: Caro Zieringer Guest: N.N.