Internal Events
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Toolbox #9 – Textuality of Contradiction: from Rhetorics to LyotardToolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #10 – Language, Discourse and Contradiction
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Workshop – Research Data ManagementFurther information will follow shortly.
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Toolbox #11 – The Great Contradiction of Religious Studies and the Cultural Turn
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #12 – Spaces/Geographies/Contradictions
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Kick off Workshop – Peer MentoringFurther information will follow shortly.
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Toolbox #13 – Internal Workshop
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Toolbox #14 – Academic EnvironmentToolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium Contradiction Studies #1
Workspace/Kolloquium #1 in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium #2
Workspace/Kolloquium #2 in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium #3Workspace/Kolloquium #3 in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium #4
Workspace/Kolloquium #4 in the winter term 2025/26
Past Events
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Conflicting Spatialities?Please read one of two texts in the version of your choice. Readings Lefebvre, Henri (1974): Dessein de l‘Ouvrage. In: Lefebvre, Henri: La Production de l’Espace, 39–53. Paris: Editions Anthropos. [Dt.: Lefebvre, Henri [1974] (2006): Die Produktion des Raums. Übersetzt von Jörg Dünne. In Dünne, Jörg, Stephan Günzel (eds.): Raumtheorie. Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaften, 330-342. Frankfurt am Main: […]
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The Power of the PowerlessReadings Havel, Václav. 1985. The Power of the powerless. In Havel, Václav, John Keane & Steven Lukes (eds.), The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the state in central-eastern Europe, 23–96. London: Routledge.
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Content and goals of toolbox and colloquium
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Discourses in Contradiction
Readings: Felder, Ekkehard. 2006. Semantische Kämpfe in Wissensdomänen. Eine Einführung in Benennungs-,Bedeutungs-und Sachverhaltsfixierungs-Konkurrenzen. In Felder, Ekkehard (ed.), Semantische Kämpfe. Macht und Sprache in den Wissenschaften, 13–46. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. Foucault, Michel. 1969. L’archéologie du savoir. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, Chap. 3: ›Les contradictions‹, 195–204. [Eng.: […]
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Like oil and water? Religion and ScienceReadings: Bergunder, Michael. 2016.»Religion« and »Science«Within a Global Religious History. In Aries–Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 16, 86–141. Subramaniam, Banu. 2019. Holy Science: The Biopolitcs of Hindu Nationalism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Chap.3: ›Return of the Native: Nation, Nature, and Postcolonial Environmentalism‹, […]
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Textuality of Contradiction
Contradiction Studies und literaturwissenschaftliche Mediävistik | Contradiction and Medieval Literary Studies (Vortrag Elisabeth Lienert) Poetische Ambiguitäten und Rhetorik des Widerspruchs | Poetic Ambiguities and Rhetorics of Contradiction (close readings with Gisela Febel)
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»Either you are the victim of a wrong, or you are not. «(Jean-François Lyotard)»Readings: Lyotard, Jean-François. 1983. Le Différend. Paris: Minuit, 9–19. [Engl.: 1988. The Differend. Phrases in Dispute. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, xi–6.]; [Ger.:1989.Der Widerstreit. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 9–21.] Supplementary Readings: Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari. 1975. Kafka. Pour une littérature mineure. Paris: Minuit, Chap. […]
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Mobilizing Contradiction: Methods as Tools. For Example: Ethnography/ Praxeography/ Walking
Readings: Verran, Helen. 2021. Writing an Ethnographic Story in Working towards Responsibly Unearthing Ontological Trouble. In Ballestro, Andrea & Brit Ross Wirthereik (eds.), Experimenting with Ethnography. A Companion To Analysis, 235–245. Durkham: Duke University Press. https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/110829/9781478091691_Ballestero_Experimenting_with_Ethnography.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (17.05.2022). Vogel, Else. 2021. Juxtaposition. Differences that Matter. In […]
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»Paying attention to contradictions ›allows an argument to take off in one direction by rendering another (direction of argument) also present‹« (Marilyn Strathern)Readings Bartole, Tomi. 2020. The Ontological Antinomy. Food, Surfaces, and Transcendence in the Village of Awim, Papua New Guinea. In HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10(3), 874–889. https://doi.org/10.1086/711879 (17.05.2022). Mol, Annemarie. 2002. TheBodyMultiple: Ontology inMedicalPractice. Durham: Duke University Press,Chap. 4:›Distribution‹, 87–118.
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»The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). How to decolonize contradiction»
Readings Da Costa Marques, Ivan. 2021. Decolonizing Knowledge Devices. In Andrea Ballestero & Brit Ross Winthereik (eds.).Experimenting with Ethnography. A Companion to Analysis, 219–234. Durham: Duke University Press. https://andreaballesterodotcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/ballesterowinthereik-2021-experimenting_with_ethnography.pdf (25.05.2022). Maart, Rozena. 2020. Introduction – Decoloniality and Decolonial Education: South Africa and the World. In […]