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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paradox

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
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
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
problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”

Julia Lossau