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 PresentationsAnn Imke
— Climate Fiction at the Water’s Edge: Negotiating Climate Change Imaginaries Through Literary Space and PerspectiveLeyla Rommel
— Counter-Counter-Cultures: Contested Gender Ideologies: Misogyny, ‘Trad Wife’ Ideals, and the Construction of Masculinity in Digital Discourse
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Workspace #06 — Project PresentationsRainer Stummer
— (Un)Building Contradiction(s) – Postfoundationalism, Ecology, MovementKim Wagener
— Berührung, Widerspruch, Differenz. Aporien tastend-experimentellen Schreibens nach Jean-Luc Nancy
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Workspace #07 — Project PresentationsFranziska Moosmann
— Widersprüchliche Artefakte. Missionarische Sammlungen zwischen kolonialer Wissensproduktion und dekolonialer Gegenarchivierung
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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 PresentationsClara Müllenmeister
— Wider die Norm. Zweifelsfälle referenzieller GeschlechtszuweisungJana Faber
— Rechtskämpfe um Feminizide
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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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»Either you are the victim of a wrong, or you are not. « Jean-François LyotardReadings: Lyotard, Jean-François. 1983. Le Différend. Paris: Minuit, 9–19. [Engl.: 1988. The Differend. Phrases in Dispute. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, xi–6.]; [Ger.:1989.Der Widerstreit. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 9–21.] Supplementary Readings: Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari. 1975. Kafka. Pour une littérature mineure. Paris: Minuit, Chap. […]
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Mobilizing Contradiction. Methods as Tools. For Example Ethnography/ Praxeography/ WalkingReadings: Verran, Helen. 2021. Writing an Ethnographic Story in Working towards Responsibly Unearthing Ontological Trouble. In Ballestro, Andrea & Brit Ross Wirthereik (eds.), Experimenting with Ethnography. A Companion To Analysis, 235–245. Durkham: Duke University Press. https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/110829/9781478091691_Ballestero_Experimenting_with_Ethnography.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (17.05.2022). Vogel, Else. 2021. Juxtaposition. Differences that Matter. In […]
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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 StrathernReadings Bartole, Tomi. 2020. The Ontological Antinomy. Food, Surfaces, and Transcendence in the Village of Awim, Papua New Guinea. In HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10(3), 874–889. https://doi.org/10.1086/711879 (17.05.2022). Mol, Annemarie. 2002. TheBodyMultiple: Ontology inMedicalPractice. Durham: Duke University Press,Chap. 4:›Distribution‹, 87–118.
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»The danger of a single story« Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. How to Decolonize ContradictionReadings Da Costa Marques, Ivan. 2021. Decolonizing Knowledge Devices. In Andrea Ballestero & Brit Ross Winthereik (eds.).Experimenting with Ethnography. A Companion to Analysis, 219–234. Durham: Duke University Press. https://andreaballesterodotcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/ballesterowinthereik-2021-experimenting_with_ethnography.pdf (25.05.2022). Maart, Rozena. 2020. Introduction – Decoloniality and Decolonial Education: South Africa and the World. In […]
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»The danger of a single story« Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. How to Decolonize Contradiction
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Contradictions in Dialectics
Textgrundlage | 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 Press, 361–385.] Marx, Karl. [1859] 1971. Vorwort zur Kritik der […]
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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 Readings Mouffe, Chantal. 2000. The Democratic Paradox. London: Verso,›Introduction: The […]
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»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 SīnāReadings 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 75–121.] Heraklit. Fragment Nr. 10. | Heraclitus. Fragment No. 10. […]
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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. In Celia Lury & Nina Wakeford (eds.), Inventive Methods. The […]
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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.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/contradiction/ (18.05.2022). […]