Events
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Colloquium Contradiction StudiesPresentation as an Insight into the Case Study Transnationale Arbeitskämpfe in der Weinlieferkette
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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
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Exploring Contradictions beyond Contradiction
First international conference on Contradiction Studies
Past Events
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Interaktionale Agonalität – Wie semantische Kämpfe in Gesprächen ausgetragen werdenAs part of the study conference “Streit als Chance? Kommunikative Praktiken des Streitens als Vehikel sozialer Aushandlung” Jonas Trochemowitz (Associate PhD student) will give a talk.
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Das Nicht(s)-Wollen wollen: Mittelalterliche Perspektiven auf ein volitionales ParadoxonMedieval debates about the human will take place against the backdrop of a particular tension: that between a person’s own will, usually considered free, and the will of an “other,” especially the will of God….
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Für Demokratie sorgen? Radikale Demokratietheorie und feministische Care Politics zusammendenken
At the Sommerakademie Feministische Rechtswissenschaft 2024.
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Anti-Intellectualism, Attacks on Academic Freedom and Illiberal Neoliberalism
This interdisciplinary workshop will address the rise of neoliberal illiberal politics and their connection to anti-intellectualism and discourses around academic freedom. Based on the guest lecture, we will discuss a variety of cases, ranging from…
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Formale, förmliche und unförmige Widersprüche in Psychoanalyse und PädagogikIn psychoanalysis and pedagogy, there is a long tradition of thinking about contradictions, which are not only at the center of reflections on action in theory, but also in practice – qua connection of the…
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Orality in Philosophy
The role of orality in philosophy is an old and intriguing topic. Some have claimed that philosophy cannot exist as an oral tradition because sophisticated thought presupposes a written form. Others (including Plato) have claimed…
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State Anti-Intellectualism & the Politics of Gender and Race. Illiberal France and BeyondIn this guest lecture, Éric Fassin will present his new book State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender and Race (CEU Press 2024). Using France as his main case study and combining it with reflections…
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Reconstrucción de la identidad a traves de lazos afiliativos en las obras de Lucía Mbomío Nsué y Deborah Ekoka
Talk at the The 49th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association: Filiations and Affiliations. Bonds, Entanglements, and Social Networks in African Literatures and Cultures.
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Work Meeting with Souleymane Bachir DiagneProf. Souleymane Bachir Diagne in Discussion with emerging scholars at the Research Training Groups 2686 Contradiction Studies. Prof. Dr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a philosopher in the Department of French at Columbia University in New…
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Possibilities and Limits of a Decolonized Anthropology from the Perspective of African PhilosophyIn this dialogue with renowned philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne, we will take up central themes in his work and connect them to ongoing conversations about anthropology and decolonization. Topics include: language and life, the postcolonial…
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