Contradiction Studies

Wie weiter nach den Parlamentswahlen in Spanien?

Prof. Óscar García Agustín (U Aalborg), Dr. Seongcheol Kim (InIIS), Prof. Martin Nonhoff (GRK Contradiction Studies & InIIS)

12/07/2023 6:00 pm 8:00 pm

Europapunkt Bremen (Am Markt 20)

After the recent elections in Spain, a stalemate emerged in which neither the PP-led nor PSOE-led coalition of choice could unite a majority behind them. The Catalan nationalists from the left and right suddenly emerged as the kingmakers in the talks to form a government, ultimately enabling the re-election of Pedro Sánchez as Prime Minister in return for a controversial amnesty for Catalan pro-independence representatives.

In order to understand the latest developments in the Spanish political landscape, Prof. Dr. Óscar García Agustín (University of Aalborg) and Dr. Seongcheol Kim (University of Bremen) will hold a panel discussion. The discussion will focus on the election results and the newly mixed party landscape, the role of the nationalist parties and the outlook for the next legislative period, as well as the future of the radical left in Spain after Podemos.

The panel discussion will be held in German and English with simultaneous translation. It is organized by the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies at the University of Bremen, the research platform Worlds of Contradiction (University of Bremen), the Instituto Cervantes Bremen and Europapunkt Bremen.

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l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke
prison of difference

“‘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
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“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
space

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

Julia Lossau
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