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

Exhibitions

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Past Events

Exhibition Opening „Wir wollen Demokratie, Marktwirtschaft und Pluralität“

On November 17th 1989, students protested peacefully in Prague. On the National Street, in the middle of the city, the demonstration was brutally beaten up by the police. This was the beginning of a social upheaval that reached its climax on Human Rights Day on […]

Klaas Anders (GRK Contradiction Studies)

Exhibition

11/15/2024

6:00 pm

Galerie am schwarzen meer
Afromayores. Memory and Genealogy of Afrodescendants in Spain

“Afromayores” is an audiovisual project coordinated by Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio, Laurent LegerAdame, and José Oyono Ngalo that aims to increase the visibility of African and Afro-descendant individuals over 65 years of age in Spain. The project’s objective is to acknowledge their existence, elucidate their […]

Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio, Laurent Leger Adame, José Oyono Ngalo, Nelson Sindze Wembe (RTG Contradiction Studies), Dr. Julia Borst (PI, ERC Starting Grant AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE)

Exhibition

10/15/2024–12/15/2024

6:00 pm

RTG Contradiction Studies Grazer Straße 2
Ostwärts in den Westen. Die Flucht von DDR-Bürger:innen über die bundesdeutsche Botschaft in der ČSSR im September 1989

In the summer and fall of 1989, thousands of citizens left the GDR in an attempt to emigrate to West Germany via the West German representations in Budapest, Prague and Warsaw. The dissatisfaction of the people in the GDR was great at the time and […]

Natalia Wollny („Euthanasie“-Gedenkstätte Lüneburg e. V.) & Klaas Anders (RTG Contradiction Studies, Bremer Bündnis für deutsch-tschechische Zusammenarbeit e.V.)

Exhibition

04/17/2024–07/05/2024

U Bremen GRA 2
Mehr als “einige Morgen Schnee”. Französische Literaturen, Kulturen und Sprachvielfalt in Kanada

In einem Seminar der Frankoromanistik haben sich Studierende mit der französisch-sprachigen Literatur aus Kanada mit einem besonderen Blick auf die Rolle des Nordens auseinandergesetzt. Das Ergebnis? Die Literatur aus Kanada ist vielfältig, kommt aus ganz unterschiedlichen Gebieten und überrascht mit ihrer Kreativität und Diversität an Themen.

In Kooperation mit der SuUB ist daraus eine Ausstellung entstanden, bei der einige Werke aus dem Bestand der Bibliothek gezeigt werden: eine hervorragende Gelegenheit, um mehr über dieses Land zu erfahren, das definitiv mehr als nur „einige Morgen Schnee“ zu bieten hat.

Jody Danard

Exhibition

03/14/2023–05/12/2023

SuUB

problem to be solved

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

l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke

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

earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau

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