Conference Living Archives 27.-28.6.2024 in Bremen

“Living Archives” Past and Present of Intersectional-Feminist Movements in Theory and Praxis

Section Politics and Gender (German Political Science Association), RTG Contradiction Studies & Worlds of Contradiction

06/27/2024 06/28/2024

Bremen

Conference of the Section „Politics and Gender“
in the German Political Science Association
in 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 Science Association) Section “Politics and Gender” will organize the conference “Living Archives”. The conference is dedicated to the overdue appreciation of the history of intersectional feminisms in German-speaking contexts (and their transnational connections). The “Living Archives” of intersectional movement history offer a rich reservoir for emancipatory and transformative present and future politics.

Please find more information in the programme.

The section is striving to make the conference as accessible as possible and welcomes suggestions and requirements from participants and contributors. Digital participation is possible.

Additional to the conference there will be a workshop with Prof. Encarnatión Gutiérrez Rodriguez at the University of Bremen on 06/29/2024.

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Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

Kerstin Knopf
problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff
paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”

Gisela Febel