Talks
Past Events
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Reconstrucción de la identidad a traves de lazos afiliativos en las obras de Lucía Mbomío Nsué y Deborah EkokaTalk at the The 49th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association: Filiations and Affiliations. Bonds, Entanglements, and Social Networks in African Literatures and Cultures.
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Possibilities and Limits of a Decolonized Anthropology from the Perspective of African PhilosophyIn this dialogue with renowned philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne, we will take up central themes in his work and connect them to ongoing conversations about anthropology and decolonization. Topics include: language and life, the postcolonial…
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The Czechoslovak Exile in Vienna (1968–1989) as a Space of DissensionAt the Panel “Memory, Conflict and Nation-Building” of the World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) 2024
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Externalisierte Unfreiheit: “The Afterlives of Slavery” als Brennglas ungleicher FreiheitTalk at the Bremen Colloquium on Political Theory
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Contradiction’s Effects
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Für Widerspruch sorgen. Impulse and TalkIt is almost a commonplace that we live in contradictory times. But what does it mean to take social contradictions seriously? Which contradictions must be endured – and which not – in a democracy? Is every…
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Bänkelsang to a binaural beat – The issue, the method of delivery, agnotology and the contradiction of selling ‘rodenticide’We (Laura Ziegler & Dean E. Stephanus) invite you to think with us as we invoke the legacy of the bench singers “Bänkelsang” that were active in the region that would become Germany from at least the 17th…
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Hoffnung in hoffnungslosen ZeitenProf. John Holloway is known for his influential writings on the renewal of Marxist theory, the relationship between the state and capitalism and forms of anti-capitalist struggle. These include the books Changing the World Without…
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Zwischen Linguistik, Widersprüchen und Feminismus. Ein Werkstattbericht zum Promotionsprojekt Abtreibung – Diachronie eines Gegendiskurses
Guest lecture as part of the seminar “Sprache, Wissen, Macht in biomedizinischen Diskursen” (Prof. Dr. Constanze Spieß and Lesley-Ann Kern)
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Contradicting Contradiction. Knowledge Production and the Pluriversal Turn
In my presentation I will draw on different examples to show how contradiction is a plural noun and a polysemous word. I will argue that rejecting the pluralism of contradiction functions (i) as a strategy…
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