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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interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
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
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”

Michi Knecht
limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel