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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hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
decolonial scholarship

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

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
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
every day

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

Gisela Febel