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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sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”

Norman Sieroka
diversity and plurality

“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”

Gisela Febel
l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke
earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”

Julia Lossau
prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”

Michi Knecht