Talks
Past Events
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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 GegendiskursesGuest 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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Memory and Morals in Transnational Constellations
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Das Klima des Sozialismus. Demokratische Planwirtschaft als Utopie heuteDebates about a democratic-socialist planned economy are currently being are being intensified again. The main focus is on the question of how social production should actually be organized after capitalism capitalism: What can a utopia…
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Global (Dis-)Order. International Cooperation and Research for the Global Common Good in Times of the ‘Zeitenwende’Prof. Anna-Katharina Hornidge | German Institute of Development and Sustainability – IDOS
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Introduction to Paraconsistency and DialetheismParaconsistency is the view that logical contradictions do not imply everything, and dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are actually true. Though both views are currently unorthodox, they have recently been at the centre…
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Linguistische WiderspruchsforschungBe it antonymic semantic contrasts, syntactic incompatibility relations, ironically self-contradictory statements or communicative protest practices, the topic of contradiction has always been of interest to linguistic research. Although the question raised by Acke and Warnke…
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Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen von Straßenumbenennungen in BremenFatou Sillah | Fachgebiet Just Transitions, U KasselLilli Hasche | RTG Contradiction Studies Panel Initiativen im Land BremenTagung Der Elefant im Raum, organisiert von Bremen’s Colonial History Working Group.