Young scientists present their findings in just ten minutes each. Aids such as props, visualizations and performance interludes are expressly encouraged.
The researchers bring their topics to the stage with heart and mind. And the best thing about it: at the end, you, the audience, decide who wins the slam!
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“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf
“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
“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
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka