Contradiction Studies

Perspectives of Human Rights Clauses in Free Trade Agreements of the EU

Nils Kohlmeyer (RTG Contradiction Studies), Jan Schulze Buschoff (RTG Contradiction Studies), Dr. Sebastian Eickenjäger (University Bremen)

12/13/2022 4:30 pm 6:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

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city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”

Julia Lossau
every day

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

Gisela Febel
limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel
driver

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

Norman Sieroka
Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart