Events
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Workspace #03 — Project PresentationsJan Hensellek
—Digital Conspiracy Discourses as Spaces of DissensionKonstantinos Chatziandreou
—Urban Contradictions and the Governance of Space: The ‘Urbanes Gebiet’ Zoning Category as a Case Study
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Workspace #04 — Project PresentationsXimena Cervantes Englerth
—Strategies of Epistemic Resistance in Intersectional Anti-Racist Activism: An Analysis of Transmedial and Post-Digital Self-Narratives from the Afro-Hispanic DiasporaLara Herford
—Demokratie im Streit. Zur Metapragmatik einer politisch-kommunikativen Dissenspraktik
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Workspace #05 — Project Presentations2–3 PM | Ann Imke— Climate Fiction at the Water’s Edge: Negotiating Climate Change Imaginaries Through Literary Space and PerspectiveDiscussants: Dr. Roman Bartosch | tbd 3–4 PM | Leyla Rommel— Counter-Counter-Cultures: Contested Gender Ideologies: Misogyny, ‘Trad Wife’ Ideals, and the Construction of Masculinity in Digital DiscourseDiscussants: […]
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Workspace #06 — Project Presentations14–15 Uhr | Kim Wagener— Berührung, Widerspruch, Differenz. Aporien tastend-experimentellen Schreibens nach Jean-Luc Nancy Discussants: tbd 15–16 Uhr | Rainer Stummer— (Un)Building Contradiction(s) – Postfoundationalism, Ecology, MovementDiscussants: tbd
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Workspace #07 — Project Presentations2–3 PM | Ellen Masur— Feminist Rewriting als Praktik des Wi(e)dersprechens. Eine empirische Untersuchung von mehrdimensionalen Wirkweisen feministischer RechtsauslegungDiscussants: tbd 3–4 PM | Franziska Moosmann— Widersprüchliche Artefakte. Missionarische Sammlungen zwischen kolonialer Wissensproduktion und dekolonialer GegenarchivierungDiscussants: tbd
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Fascism’s Lingering: Antidisability Hostility in Past and Present
This collaborative workshop will engage in a close reading and critical analysis of primary source documents (in English translation) from 4 key moments in post-World War II German history: an excerpt of a transcript from a focus group discussion among working-class women held in 1950 in Frankfurt/Main, in which themes of Nazi sexual politics and the tenacious persistence of antidisability animus and “eugenic” propaganda are evident; excerpts from the testimony of coercive sterilization survivors and a historian advocating on their behalf at a session of the Bundestag in 1987; politicians’ cross-party motion of 2011 calling for a federal memorial to the victims of the Nazi “euthanasia” murders; and AfD and CDU campaign posters expressing opposition to inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools. […]
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Workspace #09 — Project Presentations14 – 15 Uhr | Clara Müllenmeister— Wider die Norm. Zweifelsfälle referenzieller GeschlechtszuweisungDiscussants: tbd 15 – 16 Uhr | Jana Faber— Rechtskämpfe um Femi(ni)zide. Strategien im Spannungsfeld zwischenFeminismus und AbolitionismusDiscussants: tbd
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Workspace #10 — Project Presentations
14 – 15 Uhr | Thomas Itsuo Fujishima—Imaginaries of More-than-human Resistance: Life, Farming, and Posthuman Politics in JapanDiscussants: Prof. Yoshida Mariko | tbd 15 – 16 Uhr | Yash Gupta— Of मिर्ची in Our Blood: Intergenerational Dis/abilities and Toxic Contra-dictions of Postcolonial Care in the Survivor […]
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Workshop—What Am I Doing Here? Power, Positionality, and Contradictions in Ethnographic ResearchEthnographic researchers can find themselves confronted with a deceptively simple question: What am I doing here? In the field, researchers regularly encounter moments of uncertainty, ethical tension, and contradiction, particularly when working from feminist and intersectional perspectives that foreground questions of power, positionality, and responsibility. […]
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GRK 2686 — Interfaces Retreat
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Workspace with RTG 2686 Mercator Fellow
Workshop on Jacques Derrida
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Workspace #12 — Project Presentations2–3 PM | Jean Marie Bakaïwé Ngabra— Der Einsatz von KI-Tools zur Förderung der Schreib- und Sprechkompe-tenz im DaF-unterricht: eine Untersuchung der Motivation von DaF-Lernenden am Beispiel KamerunDiscussants: tbd 3–4 PM | Miguel Ángel Prieto-Castellanos— Becoming Aware of Ignorance and ContradictionDiscussants: tbd
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Wrap-up
Past Events
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Toolbox #13 – WorkspaceToolbox – Contradiction Studies #9 in the winter term 2025/26 – Workspace: internal workshop
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Kick off Workshop – Peer Mentoring
Peer mentoring for doctoral candidatesProcess managment throughout the way to the doctoral degree Peer mentoring provides doctoral students with a framework to network with their peers, offering support in peer groups for the development, editing, and completion of dissertations. Through coaching and an introduction to […]
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Toolbox #12 – Spaces/Geographies/Contradictions
Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #8 in the winter term 2025/26
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“No More Bhopals” A Memorial Screening on the 41st Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy followed by a discussion with Dr. Satinath SarangiOn the night of December 2–3, 1984, a leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal released over forty tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas, exposing more than half a million people to one of the deadliest industrial disasters in […]
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Toolbox #11 – The Great Contradiction of Religious Studies and the Cultural Turn
Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #7 in the winter term 2025/26
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Workshop. How to Handle Your (Digital) Research Data ResponsibilityResponsible handling of research data is an essential part of good scientific practice. When conducting research, it is not always easy to keep track of your research data. But what does responsible research data management (RDM) actually mean? The aim of this workshop is to […]
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Workshop and discussion with Onur Erdur. WOC Guest Professor 2025
In November 2025, Dr. Onur Erdur will be visiting the Research Training Group 2686 as WOC Guest Professor 2025. Following an input talk by the historian and cultural scholar, a workshop discussion (German/English) with the fellows of the Research Training Group will offer an opportunity […]
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Toolbox #10 – Language, Discourse and Contradiction
Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #6 in the winter term 2025/26
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Early Career VernetzungsworkshopEarly 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
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»Schule des Südens«. Onur Erdur in conversation with Karen Struve & Ehler VossOnur Erdur (Humboldt University of Berlin & WOC Visiting Professor 2025) in conversation with Karen Struve and Ehler Voss about his book Schule des Südens: Die kolonialen Wurzeln der französischen Theorie (School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory). A complete program overview […]