Events
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Reading the Present with History. Reading the Past with Anthropology
This 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 Café
Moderation: 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 Conflict
Philile 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 Contradictions
Durban 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 Studies
Presentation as an Insight into the Case Study Transnationale Arbeitskämpfe in der Weinlieferkette
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Widerspruchsresponsives Recht: Suchformel gerechter Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen
Presentation 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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Agencies, Contradictions, and Subjectivities – Towards a Material-Discursive Framing of Engaged Practices
Following Charis Thompson’s concept of ‘Ontological Choreography’ (2005) the workshop engages with the production of different subjectivities in the speaker‘s fields of study through shifting the foucauldian idea of the order of the discourse towards…
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Wie weiter nach den Parlamentswahlen in Spanien?
The panel discussion will be held in German and English with simultaneous translation. After the recent elections in Spain, a stalemate emerged in which neither the PP- nor PSOE-led coalition of choice could unite a…
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Introduction to Paraconsistency and Dialetheism
Paraconsistency is the view that logical contradictions do not imply everything, and dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are actually true. Though both views are currently unorthodox, they have recently been at the centre…
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The Logical Structure of Dialectics
Professor Graham Priest will give a formal model of dialectical progression, as found in Hegel and Marx. The model is outlined in the first half of the paper, and deploys the tools of a formal…
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Über das Unsagbare sprechen. Ein interdisziplinär religionslinguistischer Methodenworkshop
Religiosität ist in vielen Fällen von einer Erfahrung der Sprachlosigkeit und einer Begegnung mit dem Unsagbaren geprägt. Doch wie ist mit dem Widerspruch des Sprechens über das Unsagbare umzugehen und wie lassen sich Sprachlosigkeit und…
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Meeting with the Research Training Group 2638 “Normativity, Critique, Change” at the FU Berlin
Meeting of the speakers to discuss the working experiences of the Research Training Groups
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Linguistische Widerspruchsforschung
Be it antonymic semantic contrasts, syntactic incompatibility relations, ironically self-contradictory statements or communicative protest practices, the topic of contradiction has always been of interest to linguistic research. Although the question raised by Acke and Warnke…
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Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen von Straßenumbenennungen in Bremen
Fatou Sillah | Fachgebiet Just Transitions, U KasselLilli Hasche | RTG Contradiction Studies Panel Initiativen im Land BremenTagung Der Elefant im Raum, organisiert von Bremen’s Colonial History Working Group.
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Wenn Erinnerungspolitik zur Zukunftspolitik wird
Dr. Katrin Antweiler will be a guest at the research colloquium of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the TU Berlin on 29 November at 6 pm, where she will speak about her recently…
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Working Areas of the RTG