Guests

Brent Abrahams | University of the Western Cape

12/07/2023
Workshop: Agencies, Contradictions, and Subjectivities – Towards a Material-Discursive Framing of Engaged Practices
Prof. Óscar García Agustín | University of Aalborg

12/07/2023
Panel Discussion: Wie weiter nach den Parlamentswahlen in Spanien?
Prof. Dr. Irene Albers | Freie Universität Berlin

10/29/2024
Talk: Literature as Colonial Loot? Provenance Stories 1910–2021
Vuyisanani Am | University of the Western Cape

12/07/2023
Workshop: Agencies, Contradictions, and Subjectivities – Towards a Material-Discursive Framing of Engaged Practices
Dr. Sina Arnold | Technical University of Berlin
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz | University of Bremen

12/20/2022
Internal, Talk: New party line and the attempt to assume power: How Marine Le Pen transforms the Rassemblement national from a fringe group to a people’s party
Dr. Brigitte Bargetz | University Kiel

07/06/2023
Internal, Talk: Performing and Withstanding Contradictions or: an Uneasy Hunch
Dr. Anna Beckers

04/20/2023
Talk: Legal Regulation of Responsibility and Liability in Transnational Textile Supply Chains
Prof. Doc. Sabine Broeck | University of Bremen

06/14/2023
Panel Discussion: Hegel (anti)kolonial
12/06/2022
Internal, Talk: Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption
06/19/2023
Talk: Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge
Tony Brunt

06/27/2024
Talk: Samoa – “Jewel of Germany’s Pacific?”
Dr. Jonathan Chimakonam | University of Pretoria (South Africa)

05/04/2023
Talk: The History of African Philosophy as a Site of Contradictions
Dr. Max Czollek
Dr. Daria Dergacheva | Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

06/15/2023
Internal, Talk: The Allures and Pitfalls of Hashtag Acitivism
Prof. Souleymane Bachir Diagne | Columbia University & WoC guest professor

05/23/2024
Internal: Work Meeting with Souleymane Bachir Diagne
05/23/2024
Talk: Possibilities and Limits of a Decolonized Anthropology from the Perspective of African Philosophy
06/06/2024
Panel Discussion: Orality in Philosophy
Prof. Dr. Phillip Dreesen | Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften

05/04/2023
Talk: Negotiation the Incompatible. A Discourse-Linguistic Praxiography of Queer Liturgic Practice in Germany
Sonja Drobnic | SOCIUM, University of Bremen

06/13/2023
Panel Discussion: Breaking) Barriers in Academia: Mapping the Field
Dr. Sebastian Eickenjäger | University of Bremen

12/13/2022
Internal, Talk: Perspectives of Human Rights Clauses in Free Trade Agreements of the EU
Deborah Ekoka

11/16/2023
Other: Living with Contradictions as a Mixed-Race Person
Prof. Éric Fassin

06/05/2024
Talk: State Anti-Intellectualism & the Politics of Gender and Race. Illiberal France and Beyond
06/06/2024
Workshop: Anti-Intellectualism, Attacks on Academic Freedom and Illiberal Neoliberalism
Dr. Elena Ficara | Paderborn University

10/24/2023
Talk: Contradictions Between Logic and Politics
Dr. Philipp Goll | University of Siegen

06/01/2023
Talk: How to Research Indigenous Resistance Against Extractivism in Siberia in a Non-Extractivist Mode?
Prof. Lewis R. Gordon | University of Connecticut

06/20/2023
Workshop: Unpacking Coloniality. Towards a Critical Engagement with Modern Discourse
06/19/2023
Talk: Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge
Prof. Anke Graneß | University Freiburg

06/06/2024
Panel Discussion: Orality in Philosophy
Prof. Dr. Michael Hampe | ETH Zurich

02/11/2025
Panel Discussion: Leiden an Unwahrheiten? Warum wir Wahrheit brauchen. Eine Diskussion zwischen Michael Hampe, Olivia Erna Maegaard Nielsen, Tammo Lossau und Jonas Trochemowitz
Prof. Dr. Sabine Hark | Technical University of Berlin

12/13/2022
Internal, Talk: Caring for Contradictions
Dr. Ulrich Harlass | University Bremen

04/27/2023
Talk: Romuva: Creating Paganism through Contradiction
10/12/2023
Workshop: Religion glokal. Religiöse Diskurse im Spannungsfeld von Globalität und Lokalität
Dr. Frank Henschel | Kiel University

01/10/2023
Internal, Talk: Alltag und Netzwerke des tschechoslowakischen Exils in Wien nach 1968
Lara Herford | University of Bremen

01/07/2025
Talk: Wissen, Widerspruch und Wissenschaftsfreiheit: Wie man gemeinsam einen Sammelband schreibt
06/24/2023
Talk: Insights into the Work of U Bremen Contradiction Studies
Andrea Rueda Herrera | Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla, Spain)

11/26/2024
Talk: Reading the Present with History. Reading the Past with Anthropology
Dr. Jan-Ocko Heuer

04/21/2023
Workshop: Archiving and Sharing Qualitative Research Materials with Qualiservice
Prof. Dr. Anke Hilbrenner | Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

04/06/2025
Book Launch: Ivan Kalmar, White But Not Quite: Is There Anti-Eastern European Racism?
Prof. John Holloway | Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

01/31/2024
Workshop: Workshop with John Holloway
01/30/2024
Talk: Hoffnung in hoffnungslosen Zeiten
Ksenja Holzmann | Denkort Bunker Valentin

04/05/2024
Panel Discussion: Widersprechen gegen das Vergessen. Tschechoslowakische Zwangsarbeiter*innen in der Region Bremen
Prof. Anna-Katharina Hornidge | German Institute of Development and Sustainability, IDOS

12/19/2023
Talk: Global (Dis-)Order. International Cooperation and Research for the Global Common Good in Times of the ‘Zeitenwende’
Daniel James | Dresden University of Technology

06/14/2023
Panel Discussion: Hegel (anti)kolonial
Dr. Šárka Jarská

04/05/2024
Panel Discussion: Widersprechen gegen das Vergessen. Tschechoslowakische Zwangsarbeiter*innen in der Region Bremen
Rosa Jung
Prof. Dr. Ivan Kalmar | University of Toronto

04/06/2025
Book Launch: Ivan Kalmar, White But Not Quite: Is There Anti-Eastern European Racism?
Dr. Clara Iglesias Keller | Weizenbaum Institute Berlin

11/21/2023
Talk: Digital Disinformation and Democratic Backsliding in Brazil Towards an Understanding of How Digital Technologies Weigh in democratic Practice
Dr. Rosine Kelz | University Bremen

06/19/2024
Talk: Das Begehren nach Sorge. Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme feministischer Care-Diskurse
07/06/2023
Internal, Talk: Performing and Withstanding Contradictions or: an Uneasy Hunch
06/27/2024
Conference: “Living Archives” Past and Present of Intersectional-Feminist Movements in Theory and Praxis
Johannes Kepler | University Linz

09/11/2023
Talk: „Das muss eine Demokratin aushalten können“: Eine Problematisierung des Aushalten-Könnens im Dialog mit feministischen Perspektiven auf Sorge/Care
Dr. Seongcheol Kim | University of Bremen

12/07/2023
Panel Discussion: Wie weiter nach den Parlamentswahlen in Spanien?
Franz Knappik | University of Bergen

06/14/2023
Panel Discussion: Hegel (anti)kolonial
Dr. Laura Knöpfel

04/20/2023
Talk: Legal Regulation of Responsibility and Liability in Transnational Textile Supply Chains
Prof. Dr. Hannes Krämer | University of Duisburg-Essen

12/06/2022
Internal, Talk: Learning Skills from Media Instructions
Philile Langa | University of KwaZulu-Natal

12/03/2024
Talk: Contradictions in Narrow Definitions of Gender-Based Violence Against Men During Armed Conflict
Dr. Christian Leonhardt | University of Bremen

12/12/2023
Internal: How to Keep Theory Open to Contradiction
09/28/2023
Panel: Zur Methode der Widerspruchsoffenheit
Lara Lindhorst

10/12/2023
Workshop: Religion glokal. Religiöse Diskurse im Spannungsfeld von Globalität und Lokalität
Dr. Tammo Lossau | University of Bremen

02/11/2025
Panel Discussion: Leiden an Unwahrheiten? Warum wir Wahrheit brauchen. Eine Diskussion zwischen Michael Hampe, Olivia Erna Maegaard Nielsen, Tammo Lossau und Jonas Trochemowitz
Agnes Essonti Luque

03/06/2025
Talk: Visual Arts as cultural Symbiosis: A talk with Agnes Essonti Luque
Prof. Dr. Yaron Matras | Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics

01/10/2023
Talk: The Appeals Tribunal as a Contradiction Platform. Contesting Language Analysis for Determination of Origin in Asylum Procedures
01/10/2023
Internal, Talk: The Appeals Tribunal as a Contradiction Platform. Contesting Language Analysis for Determination of Origin in Asylum Procedures
Andreas Laurenz Meier

04/08/2024
Internal, Workshop: Workshop Science-Slam
Prof. Dr. Heiko Motschenbacher | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

11/12/2024
Talk: WOC GradNet Lecture #4: Labeling Theory in Language and Sexuality Studies
Prof. Dr. Stephan Müller | University of Vienna

01/17/2023
Internal, Talk: Antagonictic Characters and Character Relations in Middle High German heroic epics
Olivia Erna Maegaard Nielsen | University of Bremen

02/11/2025
Panel Discussion: Leiden an Unwahrheiten? Warum wir Wahrheit brauchen. Eine Diskussion zwischen Michael Hampe, Olivia Erna Maegaard Nielsen, Tammo Lossau und Jonas Trochemowitz
Prof. Frank Nullmeier

09/28/2023
Panel: Zur Methode der Widerspruchsoffenheit
Jendrik Nuske | University of Bremen

12/02/2024
Workshop: Academic Freedom and Early Career Researchers. World Café
01/07/2025
Talk: Wissen, Widerspruch und Wissenschaftsfreiheit: Wie man gemeinsam einen Sammelband schreibt
Dr. Dorothy Odartey-Wellington | University of Guelph

01/31/2023
Internal, Talk: Longing and Belonging in Black African diasporic Literature written in French and Spanish
Dr. Julia Offe

04/08/2024
Internal, Workshop: Workshop Science-Slam
Prof. Damani Partridge | University of Michigan

06/21/2023
Workshop: Blackness as a Universal Claim. Contradictions of Solidarity and Research Practices in Constellations of Noncitizenship
Dr. Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer | Heidelberg University

11/29/2022
Panel Discussion: Exclusionary Inclusions: Race in (Trans)national Imaginaries
Laidlaw Peringanda | Namibian Genocide Association

11/18/2024
Talk: Memory Politics as Reparations? Sharing Perspectives from Namibia and Germany
Dr. Nicole Perry

06/27/2024
Talk: Samoa – “Jewel of Germany’s Pacific?”
Dr. Christian Peters | University Bremen

06/13/2023
Panel Discussion: Breaking) Barriers in Academia: Mapping the Field
Hans-Christian Petersen | Federal Institute for Culture and History of Eastern Europe Oldenburg

10/29/2024
Panel Discussion: Was ist „Osteuropa“? Geschichte und Gegenwart eines widersprüchlichen Konzepts
Dr. Melike Peterson | University of Bremen

12/20/2022
Internal, Talk: Neighbourliness – Living with Contradictions
Prof. Graham Priest | City University of New York, GRK Contradiction Studies

12/04/2023
Workshop: The Logical Structure of Dialectics
12/05/2023
Talk: Introduction to Paraconsistency and Dialetheism
Dr. Thomas Van de Putte | King’s College London
Prof. Dr. Francesca Raimondi | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

04/20/2023
Internal, Talk: Beyond in/dependence. Freedom in a World of Contradictions
Dr. Michaela Rizzolli

04/21/2023
Workshop: Archiving and Sharing Qualitative Research Materials with Qualiservice
Prof. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

06/27/2024
Talk: Keynote: Trauerarbeit als politische Arbeit
06/29/2024
Workshop: Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons
Dr. Marie Saade | BYRD, University of Bremen

12/19/2023
Internal: Introduction to Bremen Early Career Researcher Development (BYRD)
Kwanza Musi Dos Santos

11/16/2023
Other: Living with Contradictions as a Mixed-Race Person
Andreas Schmid | Freie Universität Berlin

10/29/2024
Talk: Literature as Colonial Loot? Provenance Stories 1910–2021
Daniel Schmidt | globale°

01/14/2025
Internal: Netzwerktreffen GRK 2686 & globale° – Festival für grenzüberschreitende Literatur
Prof. Christian Schneider | University Osnabrück

06/13/2024
Talk: Das Nicht(s)-Wollen wollen: Mittelalterliche Perspektiven auf ein volitionales Paradoxon
Prof. Dr. Britt-Marie Schuster | Paderborn University

01/17/2023
Internal, Talk: Abortion – Diachrony of a Counter Discourse
Fatou Sillah | Neighborhood Initiative Decolonize Walle | University of Kassel

11/30/2023
Talk: Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen von Straßenumbenennungen in Bremen
11/18/2024
Talk: Memory Politics as Reparations? Sharing Perspectives from Namibia and Germany
Dora Simunovic | Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen

06/13/2023
Panel Discussion: Breaking) Barriers in Academia: Mapping the Field
Alex Souchen | University of Guelph

04/27/2023
Talk: Legacies of War. Historical Research on Underwater Munitions
Lisa Spanka | Equal Opportunities Office, University of Bremen

06/13/2023
Panel Discussion: Breaking) Barriers in Academia: Mapping the Field
Hagen Steinhauer | Research Group Soft Authoritarianisms

12/02/2024
Workshop: Academic Freedom and Early Career Researchers. World Café
06/23/2023
Talk: Anti-Genderism in France and Germany: a Transnational Illiberal Practice?
Dean Stephanus | University of the Western Cape

01/30/2024
Talk, Workshop: Bänkelsang to a binaural beat – The issue, the method of delivery, agnotology and the contradiction of selling ‘rodenticide’
04/18/2025
Talk: Bänkelsang to a binaural beat. The issue, the method of delivery, agnotology and the contradiction of selling ‘rodenticide’
12/07/2023
Workshop: Agencies, Contradictions, and Subjectivities – Towards a Material-Discursive Framing of Engaged Practices
Braedon Steven | University of KwaZulu-Natal

12/03/2024
Talk: The Entanglements of Race, Gender and Sexuality: South African Indian Contradictions
Heiko Strohmann

04/17/2023
Other: Opening of the exhibition: Ostwärts in den Westen. Die Flucht von DDR-Bürger:innen über die bundesdeutsche Botschaft in der ČSSR im September 1989
Prof. Dr. Karen Struve | University of Bremen

01/31/2023
Internal, Talk: “Perdre le Nord“: literary subject constructions in the narrative imagined space of the North in French Canadian contemporary literatures from Québec, Acadie and autochtonous territories
Anastasia Tikhomirova | Journalist, ZEIT und ZEIT Online

10/29/2024
Panel Discussion: Was ist „Osteuropa“? Geschichte und Gegenwart eines widersprüchlichen Konzepts
Vanessa Lara Ullrich | Bielefeld University

06/08/2023
Talk: Desire, That Obscure Subject. The Contraditory Role of Desiring Bodies in Contemporary Movements
Prof. Helen Verra | University Melbourne

06/22/2023
Internal, Talk: Ethnography with Roma and their Relations with the Portuguese Educational System
Prof. Frieder Vogelmann | University of Freiburg

07/06/2023
Talk: No Contradiction: True and Effective Knowledge
Artur Weigandt | Author and Journalist

10/29/2024
Panel Discussion: Was ist „Osteuropa“? Geschichte und Gegenwart eines widersprüchlichen Konzepts
Dr. Jana Weiss

02/23/2024
Conference: Black Atlantic Affordances. Contested Memory Cultures
Dr. Thorsten Wettich | University Bremen

10/12/2023
Workshop: Religion glokal. Religiöse Diskurse im Spannungsfeld von Globalität und Lokalität
Marieke Wist | AK Muna Lübberstedt

04/05/2024
Panel Discussion: Widersprechen gegen das Vergessen. Tschechoslowakische Zwangsarbeiter*innen in der Region Bremen
Natalia Wollny | „Euthanasie“-Gedenkstätte Lüneburg e. V.

04/17/2023
Other: Opening of the exhibition: Ostwärts in den Westen. Die Flucht von DDR-Bürger:innen über die bundesdeutsche Botschaft in der ČSSR im September 1989
04/17/2024
Exhibition: Ostwärts in den Westen. Die Flucht von DDR-Bürger:innen über die bundesdeutsche Botschaft in der ČSSR im September 1989
Laura Ziegler | University of the Western Cape

01/30/2024
Talk, Workshop: Bänkelsang to a binaural beat – The issue, the method of delivery, agnotology and the contradiction of selling ‘rodenticide’
04/18/2025
Talk: Bänkelsang to a binaural beat. The issue, the method of delivery, agnotology and the contradiction of selling ‘rodenticide’
Dr. Tyler Zoanni | University of Bremen

05/23/2024
Talk: Possibilities and Limits of a Decolonized Anthropology from the Perspective of African Philosophy