Exclusionary Inclusions: Race in (Trans)national Imaginaries

11/29/2022 6:15 pm

U Bremen CART 067 & online

Dr. Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer | U Heidelberg
Dr. Deborah Nyangulu |U Bremen

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 point, the event will discuss transcultural negotiations of anti-racism against the backdrop of different colonial histories. The two discussants will approach these questions from different disciplinary standpoints, including linguistics, transculturalism, and African European Studies.

The aim of Agora is to think together and further academic exchanges across disciplinary boundaries.

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problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
idea of democratic critique

“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”

Martin Nonhoff
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau
interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
every day

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

Gisela Febel