Streit als Chance? Kommunikative Praktiken des Streitens als Vehikel sozialer Aushandlung – Contradiction Studies

Plakat der Veranstaltung mit der Überschrift "Streit Als Chance? Kommunikative Praktiken des Streitens als Vehikel sozialer Aushandlung".

Streit als Chance? Kommunikative Praktiken des Streitens als Vehikel sozialer Aushandlung

ThemaTalkers (academic collective of lecturers and students from U Bremen, U Vienna and Åbo Akademi)

06/14/2024 –06/15/2024

U Bremen, U Vienna & online

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 students. The lectures are open to all interested parties.

The aims of the conference are: to recognize the complexity of ‘dispute’, to highlight ‘dispute’ as a productive social practice and the importance of ‘dispute’ for society, and to promote a multidimensional and multidisciplinary understanding of ‘dispute’. The lectures will be given by students and PhD students from all over the world.

Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke (speaker of the GRK) will give a word of greeting and moderate the first keynote. Jonas Trochemowitz (Associate PhD student) will give a talk.

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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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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

driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka

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

relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”
Ingo H. Warnke