Workshops

Following Charis Thompson’s concept of ‘Ontological Choreography’ (2005) the workshop engages with the production of different subjectivities in the speaker‘s fields of study through shifting the foucauldian idea of the order of the discourse towards a focus on material-discursive practices. This means that not only discourse analytic insights are used to raise questions about political practices and agencies, but also the institutional, material, and social practices of human and non-human actors are understood as a framework to make the production of subjectivity intelligible. Understanding academia as a discipline that is driven by a desire to deconstruct, inform about, and engage with societal distortions and injustices, we want to open up a multidisciplinary dialogue where our methodological practices and analytic concepts are interrogated and also through asking how we open opportunities of engagement and involvement and deal with often contradictive subjectivities and desires.

Professor Graham Priest will give a formal model of dialectical progression, as found in Hegel and Marx. The model is outlined in the first half of the paper, and deploys the tools of a formal paraconsistent logic. In the second half, He will discuss a number of examples of dialectical progressions to be found in Hegel and Marx, showing how they fit the model.

Religiosität ist in vielen Fällen von einer Erfahrung der Sprachlosigkeit und einer Begegnung mit dem Unsagbaren geprägt. Doch wie ist mit dem Widerspruch des Sprechens über das Unsagbare umzugehen und wie lassen sich Sprachlosigkeit und Unsagbarkeit forschungspraktisch untersuchen? In unserem primär religionslinguistisch jedoch interdisziplinär offenen Workshop möchten wir dieser Frage nachgehen und anhand verschiedener Methoden und Konzepte Zugänge zum Sprechen über das Unsagbare diskutieren.

workshop with Damani Partridge on Blackness and the contradictions of solidarity and research practices in constellations of noncitizenship.