Poster for the event "Academic Freedom and Early Career Scholars. World Cafe"

Academic Freedom and Early Career Researchers. World Café

WoC (Worlds of Contradiction)

12/02/2024 2:00 pm –4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Moderation: Hagen Steinhauer, Jessica Nuske, Jendrik Nuske, Kevin Kuhlmann, Sarabjeet Kaur, Jonas Trochemowitz

What is the role of academic freedom in doctoral studies and scientific qualification? Is academic freedom under threat, and if so, what can we as doctoral students do to protect it?

We would like to discuss these and other questions in a World Café format and exchange experiences and perspectives. We primarily invite doctoral students, but also students considering a doctorate and members of other status groups. The workshop will be held in English with the possibility of clarification in German.

For question contact Jonas Trochemowitz trochemo@uni-bremen.de

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paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
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
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke
city

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

Julia Lossau