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!
Please find more Information at the Kulturzentrum Schlachthof website.
“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau