Events
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Decolonial Feminist Perspectives on Artificial IntelligenceThis symposium seeks to explore the possibilities and contradictions surrounding AI. It brings together decolonial feminist perspectives and research on artificial intelligence and opens a space for critical reflection on living with and thinking about ethical futures in relation to AI.
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Toolbox #2: Heraclitus & Aristotle – Figures of Contradiction & The Law of NoncontradictionToolbox in the Summer Term 2025
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Introduction with Rozena Maart (Mercator Fellow)
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Welcome Retreat
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Workshop #1 – Data as/in Contradictions: Research, Practices, Politics (Postdoc Intro)Drawing on the research projects of the postdoctoral Fellows of the RTG 2686, this three-part workshop invites our doctoral researchers to collectively reflect on the intersections between data and contradictions. We will explore how data is both shaped by political, social, and epistemic contradictions and, in turn, actively shapes these contradictions.
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Workshop #2 – Solidarity by Choice and Not by Co-optation: Getting to Know Each Other Using Different Data Stories
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Toolbox #3: How to decolonize Contradiction | Resistance and CounterhegemonyToolbox #3a | »The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – How to decolonize Contradiction (Gisela Febel & Kerstin Knopf)
Toolbox #3b | Resistance and Counterhegemony (Gisela Febel)
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Workshop #3 – Data as/in Contradictions: Research, Practices, Politics
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Toolbox #4: Life/World/ConceptToolbox in the Summer Term 2025
Past Events
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Book “Nullerjahre”: Reading and discussion with Hendrik Bolz
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The Power of the Powerless
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Content and goals of toolbox and colloquium
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Discourses in Contradiction
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Like oil and water? Religion and Science
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Textuality of Contradiction
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»Either you are the victim of a wrong, or you are not. «(Jean-François Lyotard)»
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Mobilizing Contradiction: Methods as Tools. For Example: Ethnography/ Praxeography/ Walking
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»Paying attention to contradictions ›allows an argument to take off in one direction by rendering another (direction of argument) also present‹« (Marilyn Strathern)
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»The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). How to decolonize contradiction»