Conferences

Contradictions are omnipresent and the identification of contradictions is usually accompanied by the imperative to resolve them. Contradictions can be ascribed to individual actions as well as to social formations. They extend to all areas of life: political orders, academic settings, religious practices and many more fields that are permeated by them. Without contradictions, there are no pluralities and no truths. Nevertheless, there is a long and powerful (especially European) tradition of problematizing and resolving contradictions and reducing them to logical incompatibility. This tradition of avoiding contradiction is countered by alternative concepts of thinking contradiction, above all in dialectics or paraconsistent logic (Priest/Tanaka [1996]2022). Contradiction Studies take up this reflection and move away from the widespread negative assessment of contradiction (cp. Febel/Knopf/Nonhoff 2023; Lienert 2019; Lossau/Schmidt-Brücken/Warnke 2019; Nintemann/Stroh 2022; Warnke/Hornidge/Schattenberg 2021). In this sense, our conference aims to explore contradictions beyond contradiction.

Conference: “Territory, Tension, and Taboo: Canada in Crisis” – Emerging Scholars Forum, Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS)

Conference of the Section „Politics and Gender“in the German Political Science Associationin cooperation with the DFG Research Training Group „Contradiction Studies“ and the Research Network „Worlds of Contradiction“ On the occasion of the Section’s 30th anniversary, the 15th Speakers’ Council of the DVPW (German Political […]

The conference has an interdisciplinary focus, which is why the lectures will be held from the fields of linguistics and literary studies, cultural studies and educational science, among others. As this is a student conference, the presentations will be given exclusively by students and PhD […]

Dr. Deborah Nyangulu and Dr. Jana Weiss convened the ‘Black Atlantic Affordances. Contested Memory Cultures` conference at the University of Texas at Austin from Feb 23 – 25. The event featured a range of speakers who engaged with, among others, questions of Black freedom, memory […]

The conference network “Diskurs – interdisziplinär” provides a forum where representatives from linguistics, sociology, political science, philosophy, literary studies, history, and other cultural analysis-based sciences can reflect on and discuss the perspective of “discourse” in a subject-specific and interdisciplinary manner, both within and across disciplines. […]

political theory in times of uncertainty

Conference of the European Network on Discourses of Marginality and Demarginalization (DeMarg).