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Forschen zwischen Küche und Computer – Jan Dittrich untersucht, wie wir mit Anleitungen lernen.

We are looking forward to an intensive cooperation with Rozena Maart (U KwaZulu-Natal), who has planned the following events during her time in Bremen:

An overview of the program of the RTG Colloquium in the winter term can be found here. Detailed information about the individual sessions can be found in time before the individual meeting in the event calendar of this website.

Blogpost about Panel 5 Verunsicherung einer ’natürlichen‘ Ordnung. (Queer-)feministische Un/Gewissheiten at the Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty Congress. With contributions by Helen Stephan and Carolin Zieringer (RTG Contradiction Studies).

Parts of the DFG Research Training Group Contradiction Studies and students of the MA Transcultural Studies participated in the Autumn/Spring School Elephants in the Room: Situating Post/Colonial Histories and Imaginaries in Cape Town and Johannesburg from September 7-22, 2023.

We are looking forward to an intensive cooperation with Graham Priest (City University of New York), who has planned the following events during his time in Bremen:

Deborah Nyangulu was interviewed by Sandra Folie & Gianna Zocco in the journal CompLit (pp. 187-191) for the issue on “Sketches of Black Europe in African and African Diasporic Narratives”.

On the occasion of the Section’s 30th anniversary, the 15th Speakers’ Council of the DVPW (German Political Science Association) Section “Politics and Gender” will organize the conference “Living Archives”. The conference is dedicated to the overdue appreciation of the history of intersectional feminisms in German-speaking contexts (and their transnational connections). In decades of community organizing, intersectional feminists have highlighted the pervasive influence of racism and antisemitism on (academic) knowledge production. They have fought for the recognition of class struggles, and of migrant, Jewish, Afro-German and Black, Rom*nja and Sinti*zze, anti-ableist and queer*feminist perspectives. However, the status of these perspectives in academia and in social movements often remains precarious. By putting “Living Archives” center stage the conference will focus on the lived experiences of people and communities who are/have been part of intersectional (political) movements. We want to provide a space to explore diverse knowledges, forms of theory production, and political practices. These diverse archives have played a vital role in pluralistic, post-national-socialist, and post-colonial democratization processes.

Dr. Deborah Nyangulu and Dr. Jana Weiss convened the ‚Black Atlantic Affordances. Contested Memory Cultures` conference at the University of Texas at Austin from Feb 23 – 25. The event featured a range of speakers who engaged with, among others, questions of Black freedom, memory cultures, , the Black radical tradition, African diaspora, and digital humanities. Prof. Dr. Ashley D. Farmer (UT Austin) and independent researcher, writer, and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola gave the keynote addresses. The conference also featured a roundtable on the topic of ‚Black Atlantic Affordance and Digital Humanities‘ with speakers Kelly Baker Josephs, Justin Dunnavant,  Amani Morrison, and moderated by Deborah Nyangulu.

Join the 21st Conference of the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries! The CfP for the conference on the topic „Territory, Tension, and Taboo: Canada in Crisis“ is now open.
Territory as a historical, legal, geographical, or cultural concept has become an essential interdisciplinary nexus within the field of Canadian Studies. Depending on the context, territory has been described as vast, empty, conquered, annexed, unexplored, constructed, claimed, or imagined, among many other adjectives. This conference aims to explore different aspects of territory through the prism of tension and taboo. This includes territorial tensions which have erupted into public conflicts that dominate(d) popular Canadian discourse (e.g. Oka Crisis, 2022 Freedom Convoy, etc.), or territorial confrontations treated as taboo, concealed, or otherwise obscured by Canada’s international reputation as a welcoming and multicultural nation (e.g. Chinese head tax, history of slavery in Canada, etc.). The conference will feature thematic panels for more advanced projects as well as an open forum for ongoing research projects. We therefore welcome emerging scholars at all levels to share their work on the multifaceted territorial crises occurring within and between many overlapping and contested territories that make up the place now known as Canada.
The conference will take place in person at the University of Bremen on October 10 and 11. Please submit your abstracts by April 30, 2024. More information here.

In the DFG-funded Research Training Group 2686 “Contradiction Studies – Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of the Contradictory”, the Faculty 09- Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen is seeking to fill the position of an Academic Coordinator (Salary group 13 TV-L with 100% of the weekly working time: 39.2 hours per week) for the duration of the externally funded project until 30/11/2026. Please finde more Information on the University Homepage.

Contradictions are omnipresent and the identification of contradictions is usually accompanied by the imperative to resolve them. Contradictions can be ascribed to individual actions as well as to social formations. They extend to all areas of life: political orders, academic settings, religious practices and many more fields that are permeated by them. Without contradictions, there […]

The special issue, The Old Drift: Disruption, guest edited by our fellow, Dr. Deborah Nyangulu, in Research in African Literatures is from this week available as open access. All articles in the Issue are free to read and you can access them here.

After many months of planning, the programme of the conference “Living Archives” Past and Present of Intersectional-Feminist Movements in Theory and Praxis is now available.

In a short presentation of 10 Minutes for a lay audience, Jonas Trochemowitz presented his research at the popular-scientific event Science Slam.

Between the end of November 2023 and mid-January 2024, PhD students Brent Abrahams, Vuyisanani Am and Dean E. Stephanus from the Department of Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town were guests in Bremen at the invitation of the DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies – Constellations, Heuristics and […]

The Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies has published a working paper last year. It can be found here.

Dr. Katrin Antweiler, ZF-funded researcher at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research, the DFG Research Training Group 2686 – Contradiction Studies, and founding member of the WoC Lab Pluriversal Memories has been awarded a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Antweiler is hosted by Dr. Duane Jethro at the Department for African Studies at the University of Cape Town and her research focuses on the role of memory politics in German external cultural policy in South Africa.

The panel discussion “Widersprechen gegen das Vergessen. Tschechoslowakische Zwangsarbeiter*innen in der Region Bremen”, that took place in April, with Dr. Šárka Jarská (historian, Živá paměť), Marieke Wist (journalist and historian) and Ksenja Holzmann (historian, Denkort Bunker Valentin), moderated by Klaas Anders (DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies / Bremer Bündnis für deutsch-tschechische Zusammenarbeit e.V.), can be listened to here.

Our postdoctoral researcher, Deborah Nyangulu, had a wide ranging interview with Senegalese philosopher, Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University and 2024 Worlds of Contradiction visiting professor). The interview ranged from discussing Professor Diagne’s work in philosophy, how to read Léopold Sedar Senghor, revisiting the category of the universal to the place of Africa and pan-africanism in a geopolitical context of a falling imperial order. You can listen to the podcast interview on Spotify, Audible, or Deezer