Book Launches

Onur Erdur (Humboldt University of Berlin & WOC Visiting Professor 2025) in conversation with Karen Struve and Ehler Voss about his book Schule des Südens: Die kolonialen Wurzeln der französischen Theorie (School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory). A complete program overview […]

Discussion in English In White But Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt (2022), Ivan Kalmar examines the political and cultural developments in Central Europe, in particular the emergence of illiberal movements in post-communist societies such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. Kalmar analyses […]

Prof. Dr. Rozena Maart (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) will read from her new collection which was published together with Joan Madibeng in March 2023. This event is open to anyone who is interested. There will be a Q&A session afterwards. This event will be held in English.

“Contradiction” is a core concept in the humanities and the social sciences. Beside the classical ideas of logical or dialectical contradiction, instances of “lived” contradiction and strategies of coping with it are objects of this study. Contradiction Studies discuss the many ways in which explicit or implicit contradictions are negotiated in different political or cultural settings. This volume collects articles that tackle the concept of contradiction, practices of contradicting and lived contradictions from a number of relevant perspectives and assembles contributions from linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, and media studies.

Katrin Antweiler

Hendrik Bolz reads from his book “Nullerjahre”. Organisation and moderation by Klaas Anders.