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Reading the Present with History. Reading the Past with Anthropology

This 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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Andrea Rueda Herrera (Universidad Pablo de Olavide | Doctoral Visitor at RTG 2686)

Talk

11/26/2024

2:15 pm–3:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Academic Freedom and Early Career Researchers. World Café

Moderation: 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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WoC (Worlds of Contradiction)

Workshop

12/02/2024

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030
Contradictions in Narrow Definitions of Gender-Based Violence Against Men During Armed Conflict

Philile 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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Philile Langa (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Talk

12/03/2024

2:15 pm–3:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
The Entanglements of Race, Gender and Sexuality: South African Indian Contradictions

Durban 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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Braedon Steven (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Talk

12/03/2024

2:15 pm–3:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Colloquium Contradiction Studies

Presentation as an Insight into the Case Study Transnationale Arbeitskämpfe in der Weinlieferkette

Lilli Hasche (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

12/10/2024

2:15 pm–3:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Widerspruchsresponsives Recht: Suchformel gerechter Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen

Presentation as part of the conference Die Vielfalt des Rechts of the sociology of law section of the University of Marburg

Nils Kohlmeier (RTG Contradiciton Studies)

Talk

12/12/2024

1:40 pm–3:00 pm

U Marburg Musizierhaus
Exploring Contradictions beyond Contradiction

First international conference on Contradiction Studies

RTG Contradiction Studies

Conference

02/11/2025–02/14/2025

U Bremen

Past Events

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka

every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel

ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht

limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel

prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht