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.

Contact

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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Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart
space

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

Julia Lossau
idea of democratic critique

“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”

Martin Nonhoff
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