Events
-
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…
read more
-
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…
read more
-
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…
read more
-
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…
read more
-
Colloquium Contradiction StudiesPresentation as an Insight into the Case Study Transnationale Arbeitskämpfe in der Weinlieferkette
-
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
-
Exploring Contradictions beyond Contradiction
First international conference on Contradiction Studies
Past Events
-
Contradictions in DialecticsTextgrundlage | Readings Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1986/1813] 2021. Wissenschaft der Logik 2. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 46–80. [Engl.: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. [1813] 2010. The Science of Logic. Translated by George di Giovanni. Cambridge: Cambridge University…
read more
-
Hegemony and AntagonismReadings Laclau, Ernesto & Chantal Mouffe. 1985. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy– Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso, 93–148. [Ger.: Laclau, Ernesto & Chantal Mouffe. [1985] 2015. Hegemonie und radikale Demokratie. Wien: Passagen, 125–183.] Supplementary…
read more
-
»Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.« (Ibn Sīnā)Readings Aristoteles. 1990. Metaphysik. Buch Gamma. In der Übersetzung von Friedrich Bassenge. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 72–102. [Engl.: Aristotle. [1971] 1993. Metaphysics. Books Gamma, Delta, Epsilon. Translated and with Notes by Christopher Kirwan, 1–26 (book gamma), notes…
read more
-
Working with Concepts as ›Tools‹ (Werkzeug / Mittel / Instrument) and ›Devices‹ (Gerät / Vorrichtung / Apparat) – Towards a Mixed Bag Theory for Contradiction Studies?Wählen und lesen Sie einen der drei Titel | Chose and read one out of three Bal, Mieke. 2009. Working with Concepts. In European Journal of English Studies 13(1), 13–23. Ruppert, Evelyn S. 2012. Category….
read more
-
All about ContradictionsHintergrundliteratur | Background Readings Angehrn, Emil. 2004. Widerspruch. In Ritter, Joachim, Karlfried Gründer & Gottfried Gabriel (eds.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie 12, 687–699. Darmstadt: WBG. Horn, Laurence R. 2018. Contradiction. In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.),…
read more
-
Bänkelsang to a binaural beat. The issue, the method of delivery, agnotology and the contradiction of selling ‘rodenticide’
We (Laura Ziegler & Dean E. Stephanus) invite you to think with us as we invoke the legacy of the bench singers “Bänkelsang” that were active in the region that would become Germany from at…
read more
-
Colloquium Contradiction Studies