Events

2:15–3:00 PM | Clara Müllenmeister
— Wider die Norm. Zweifelsfälle referenzieller Geschlechtszuschreibung | Cases of Doubt in Referential Gender Assignment
Discussants: Dr. Lesley-Ann Kern (U zu Köln)

Writing an academic thesis is a complex process that presents its own challenges. Dr. Birgit Schreiber, a social researcher, journalist, and coach from Bremen, together with journalist Uwe Buse, will teach how to reliably navigate this process in this two-day workshop, which provides guidance on effective self-coaching. The workshop is offered bilingually (English, German).

Writing an academic thesis is a complex process that presents its own challenges. Dr. Birgit Schreiber, a social researcher, journalist, and coach from Bremen, together with journalist Uwe Buse, will teach how to reliably navigate this process in this two-day workshop, which provides guidance on effective self-coaching. The workshop is offered bilingually (English, German). Practical exercises will be conducted as much as possible using texts provided by the participants.

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of polarization. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy hunt against this spectre. Where is the opposition party that has not been decried as polarizing by its governing opponents? Where the opposition party […]

— Building Bridges to the Bremen Art Whor. An Excursion to Weserburg. Museum für modern Kunst

The field of infrastructure studies lies at a critical juncture marked by novel kinds of logistical interfaces, new configurations of agency, and enduring neo-Foucauldian concerns with the shifting contours of the human subject.  In this presentation I develop a conceptual synthesis between four analytical perspectives: an emphasis on infrastructure as a set of cultural and material artefacts marked by diverse modes of enquiry; the co-evolutionary dynamics of infrastructure networks in relation to the corporeal vulnerabilities of urban space; the emergence of successive socio-technical imaginaries that connect with the metonymic or ideological significance of urban infrastructure; and the significance of infrastructure as an epistemological vantage point for embodied encounters with urban space.  I show how the question of infrastructure intersects with a series of wider debates over agency, subjectivity, and the rise of algorithmic governmentalities.  I emphasize the value of creative practice as a vibrant alternative to creeping forms of analytical modularity and neo-positivist epistemological elision.   

— Research Approaches and Methodologies Reflecting specific research projects within the broader spectrum of possible research approaches and methodologies.

— Fellow Research Approaches and Methodologies: A Hands-on Follow-up Contextualizing RTG 2686 Fellow projects within the broader spectrum of research approaches and methodologies

— Deep Dive Reading and Reflection on the Writing Process: Writing and Text Feedback Techniques

— Relevance: The Epistemological Value of Scientific Research

— Details will follow. Mercator Fellow Michael Hampe (Zürich) wird vom 18. bis 22. Januar 2027 im GRK 2686 zu Gast sein.

Franziska Moosmann
— Widersprüchliche Artefakte. Missionarische Sammlungen zwischen kolonialer Wissensproduktion und dekolonialer Gegenarchivierung

Rainer Stummer
— (Un)Building Contradiction(s) – Postfoundationalism, Ecology, Movement

Kim Wagener
— Berührung, Widerspruch, Differenz. Aporien tastend-experimentellen Schreibens nach Jean-Luc Nancy

Ann Imke
— Climate Fiction at the Water’s Edge: Negotiating Climate Change Imaginaries Through Literary Space and Perspective

Leyla Rommel
— Counter-Counter-Cultures: Contested Gender Ideologies: Misogyny, ‘Trad Wife’ Ideals, and the Construction of Masculinity in Digital Discourse

Ximena Cervantes Englerth
—Strategies of Epistemic Resistance in Intersectional Anti-Racist Activism: An Analysis of Transmedial and Post-Digital Self-Narratives from the Afro-Hispanic Diaspora

Lara Herford
—Demokratie im Streit. Zur Metapragmatik einer politisch-kommunikativen Dissenspraktik