Taking Stock of the Holocaust – Human Rights Nexus: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Kolleg Forschungsgruppe Universalism and Pluralism in European History

09/09/2024 09/10/2024

LMU München

Junior Fellow Workshop of the KFG. Find the programme here.

Organized by:

Dr. Katrin Antweiler (RTG Contradiction Studies & IfEK, U Bremen)

Ida Richter (Kolleg Forschungsgruppe Universalism and Particularism in European History, LMU München)

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decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

Kerstin Knopf
Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf
paradox

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
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
city

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

Julia Lossau