Contradiction Studies

How to Handle your (Digital) Research Data Responsibly

12/07/2022 9:00 am –3:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 0030

An event by the DFG Research Training Group 2686 “Contradiction Studies –
Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory” in cooperation with the
Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and the Research Data Center (RDC) Qualiservice.

Presentations will be in English, but contributions can be made in German.
Responsible research data management is an essential component of good research practice but what does responsible RDM mean? The aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to key concepts, requirements and practices of research data management and to foster an exchange about ‘data’ and their specific surroundings in different disciplines within social and cultural sciences and humanities. For this purpose, the workshop will introduce research data management and will provide a forum for interdisciplinary exchange and small group discussions on selected aspects of data management. The content is relevant for researchers from all disciplinary backgrounds, not only researchers working with empirical data.

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Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

Kerstin Knopf
problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”

Michi Knecht
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
paradox

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano