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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decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

Kerstin Knopf
every day

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

Gisela Febel
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau
articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”

Martin Nonhoff
Is contradiction eurocentric?

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

Kerstin Knopf