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Breaking) Barriers in Academia: Mapping the Field

The dominant understanding of academia assumes that beneficial participation for all involved (students, early career researchers, academic staff…) is based primarily on the ability to make a valuable intellectual contribution to research. In reality, however,…

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Sonja Drobnic (SOCIUM, U Bremen), Dora Simunovic (BIGSSS, U Bremen) Nelson Sindze Wembe (RTG Contradiction Studies & BIGSSS U Bremen) & Lisa Spanka (Equal Opportunities Office, U Bremen)

Panel Discussion

06/13/2023

1:00 pm–3:00 pm

BIGSSS, Konferenzraum, Mary Somerville Str. 7 (UNICOM Building, 3rd Floor)
Im Rückblick: Die Flucht über die Prager Botschaft 1989

Panel discussion on the memory of the events in autumn 1989 in the German Embassy in Prague, as part of the stage play “Über den Zaun”.

Klaas Anders & Heiko Strohmann & Ulrike Marski

Panel Discussion

05/22/2023

7:00 pm

Bahnhof Worpswede
Exclusionary Inclusions: Race in (Trans)national Imaginaries

The first discussion in WoC’s new Agora format will focus on the exclusionary effects of contemporary discourses and politics of inclusion. Taking the globalization and mediatization of the Black Lives Matter movement as a starting…

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Panel Discussion

11/29/2022

6:15 pm

U Bremen CART 067 & online

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel

power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel

paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka

Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“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