35 Jahre Friedliche Revolution – Quo Vadis DDR-Erinnerungskultur in Hamburg

Klaas Anders (RTG Contradiction Studies)

11/09/2024 6:30 pm –8:30 pm

Kulturhaus Süderelbe

With reference to the traveling exhibition Demokratie vor Ort – Persönliche Erinnerungen von Hamburger:innen aus der DDR, a discussion among experts will take place on the significance and development of the memory of the GDR and its effects on our society today.

More information about the event can be found here.

Organizor:
University of Hamburg, Working Field Public History
In Cooperation with the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg and the Kulturhaus Süderelbe

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articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”

Martin Nonhoff
problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf
sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”

Norman Sieroka
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