Events
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Workspace #01 — Welcome & Recap Toolbox 2025/2026
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Workspace #02 — Project PresentationsDominik Koos
—Mit Recht zur Lohngerechtigkeit? Der Rechtskampf um das Prinzip der EntgelttransparenzDiscussants: tbd
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Workspace #03 — Project PresentationsJan Hensellek
—Digital Conspiracy Discourses as Spaces of Dissension
Discussants: tbdKonstantinos Chatziandreou
—Urban Contradictions and the Governance of Space: The ‘Urbanes Gebiet’ Zoning Category as a Case StudyDiscussants: Dr. Christian Lamker & Dr. Melike Peterson
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Workspace #04 — Project Presentations2–3 PM | Lara Herford — Demokratie im Streit. Zur Metapragmatik einer politisch-kommunikativen DissenspraktikDiscussants: Dr. Jöran Landschoff | 3–4 PM | 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 DiasporaDiscussants: tbd
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Workspace #05 — Project Presentations2–3 PM | Ann Imke— Climate Fiction at the Water’s Edge: Negotiating Climate Change Imaginaries Through Literary Space and PerspectiveDiscussants: Dr. Roman Bartosch | tbd 3–4 PM | Leyla Rommel— Counter-Counter-Cultures: Contested Gender Ideologies: Misogyny, ‘Trad Wife’ Ideals, and the Construction of Masculinity in Digital DiscourseDiscussants: […]
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Workspace #06 — Project Presentations14–15 Uhr | Kim Wagener— Berührung, Widerspruch, Differenz. Aporien tastend-experimentellen Schreibens nach Jean-Luc Nancy Discussants: tbd 15–16 Uhr | Rainer Stummer— (Un)Building Contradiction(s) – Postfoundationalism, Ecology, MovementDiscussants: tbd
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Workspace #07 — Project Presentations2–3 PM | Ellen Masur— Feminist Rewriting als Praktik des Wi(e)dersprechens. Eine empirische Untersuchung von mehrdimensionalen Wirkweisen feministischer RechtsauslegungDiscussants: tbd 3–4 PM | Franziska Moosmann— Widersprüchliche Artefakte. Missionarische Sammlungen zwischen kolonialer Wissensproduktion und dekolonialer GegenarchivierungDiscussants: tbd
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WOC Guest Professor 2026 — Workshoptbd U Bremen WOC INTERNATIONAL GUEST Professorship
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Workspace #09 — Project Presentations14 – 15 Uhr | Clara Müllenmeister— Wider die Norm. Zweifelsfälle referenzieller GeschlechtszuweisungDiscussants: tbd 15 – 16 Uhr | Jana Faber— Rechtskämpfe um Femi(ni)zide. Strategien im Spannungsfeld zwischenFeminismus und AbolitionismusDiscussants: tbd
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Workspace #10 — Project Presentations14 – 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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GRK 2686 — Interfaces Retreat
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Workspace with RTG 2686 Mercator FellowWorkshop 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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Workshop— What Am I Doing Here? Power, Positionality, and Contradictions in Ethnographic Research Ethnographic 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 […]
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Wrap-up
Past Events
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Spaces Old and NewReadings Lossau, Julia. 2020. Anthropogeography. In Kobayashi, Audrey (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography 1, 147-154. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Massey, Doreen. 1999. Spaces of Politics. In Massey, Doreen, John Allen & Philip Sarre (eds.): Human Geography Today, 279-294.Cambridge, Malden: Polity Press.
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Conflicting Spatialities?Please read one of two texts in the version of your choice. Readings Lefebvre, Henri (1974): Dessein de l‘Ouvrage. In: Lefebvre, Henri: La Production de l’Espace, 39–53. Paris: Editions Anthropos. [Dt.: Lefebvre, Henri [1974] (2006): Die Produktion des Raums. Übersetzt von Jörg Dünne. In Dünne, Jörg, Stephan Günzel (eds.): Raumtheorie. Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaften, 330-342. Frankfurt am Main: […]
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Book “Nullerjahre”. Reading and discussion with Hendrik BolzHendrik Bolz reads from his book “Nullerjahre”. Organisation and moderation by Klaas Anders.
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The Power of the PowerlessReadings Havel, Václav. 1985. The Power of the powerless. In Havel, Václav, John Keane & Steven Lukes (eds.), The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the state in central-eastern Europe, 23–96. London: Routledge.
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Content and goals of toolbox and colloquium
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Discourses in ContradictionReadings: Felder, Ekkehard. 2006. Semantische Kämpfe in Wissensdomänen. Eine Einführung in Benennungs-,Bedeutungs-und Sachverhaltsfixierungs-Konkurrenzen. In Felder, Ekkehard (ed.), Semantische Kämpfe. Macht und Sprache in den Wissenschaften, 13–46. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. Foucault, Michel. 1969. L’archéologie du savoir. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, Chap. 3: ›Les contradictions‹, 195–204. [Eng.: […]
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Like oil and water? Religion and ScienceReadings: Bergunder, Michael. 2016.»Religion« and »Science«Within a Global Religious History. In Aries–Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 16, 86–141. Subramaniam, Banu. 2019. Holy Science: The Biopolitcs of Hindu Nationalism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Chap.3: ›Return of the Native: Nation, Nature, and Postcolonial Environmentalism‹, […]
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Textuality of ContradictionContradiction Studies und literaturwissenschaftliche Mediävistik | Contradiction and Medieval Literary Studies (Vortrag Elisabeth Lienert) Poetische Ambiguitäten und Rhetorik des Widerspruchs | Poetic Ambiguities and Rhetorics of Contradiction (close readings with Gisela Febel)
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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 […]