Internal Events

2:15–3:00 PM | Clara Müllenmeister
— Wider die Norm. Zweifelsfälle referenzieller Geschlechtszuschreibung | Cases of Doubt in Referential Gender Assignment
Discussants: Dr. Lesley-Ann Kern (U zu Köln)

Writing an academic thesis is a complex process that presents its own challenges. Dr. Birgit Schreiber, a social researcher, journalist, and coach from Bremen, together with journalist Uwe Buse, will teach how to reliably navigate this process in this two-day workshop, which provides guidance on effective self-coaching. The workshop is offered bilingually (English, German).

Writing an academic thesis is a complex process that presents its own challenges. Dr. Birgit Schreiber, a social researcher, journalist, and coach from Bremen, together with journalist Uwe Buse, will teach how to reliably navigate this process in this two-day workshop, which provides guidance on effective self-coaching. The workshop is offered bilingually (English, German). Practical exercises will be conducted as much as possible using texts provided by the participants.

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of polarization. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy hunt against this spectre. Where is the opposition party that has not been decried as polarizing by its governing opponents? Where the opposition party […]

— Building Bridges to the Bremen Art Whor. An Excursion to Weserburg. Museum für modern Kunst

The field of infrastructure studies lies at a critical juncture marked by novel kinds of logistical interfaces, new configurations of agency, and enduring neo-Foucauldian concerns with the shifting contours of the human subject.  In this presentation I develop a conceptual synthesis between four analytical perspectives: an emphasis on infrastructure as a set of cultural and material artefacts marked by diverse modes of enquiry; the co-evolutionary dynamics of infrastructure networks in relation to the corporeal vulnerabilities of urban space; the emergence of successive socio-technical imaginaries that connect with the metonymic or ideological significance of urban infrastructure; and the significance of infrastructure as an epistemological vantage point for embodied encounters with urban space.  I show how the question of infrastructure intersects with a series of wider debates over agency, subjectivity, and the rise of algorithmic governmentalities.  I emphasize the value of creative practice as a vibrant alternative to creeping forms of analytical modularity and neo-positivist epistemological elision.   

— Research Approaches and Methodologies Reflecting specific research projects within the broader spectrum of possible research approaches and methodologies.

— Fellow Research Approaches and Methodologies: A Hands-on Follow-up Contextualizing RTG 2686 Fellow projects within the broader spectrum of research approaches and methodologies

— Deep Dive Reading and Reflection on the Writing Process: Writing and Text Feedback Techniques

— Relevance: The Epistemological Value of Scientific Research

— Details will follow. Mercator Fellow Michael Hampe (Zürich) wird vom 18. bis 22. Januar 2027 im GRK 2686 zu Gast sein.

Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #1 in the winter term 2025/26

Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025

Toolbox #3a | »The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – How to decolonize Contradiction (Gisela Febel & Kerstin Knopf)

Toolbox #3b | Resistance and Counterhegemony (Gisela Febel)

Drawing on the research projects of the postdoctoral Fellows of the RTG 2686, this three-part workshop invites our doctoral researchers to collectively reflect on the intersections between data and contradictions. We will explore how data is both shaped by political, social, and epistemic contradictions and, in turn, actively shapes these contradictions.

Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025

Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025