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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”.

June 27-28, 2024 | University of Bremen Conference of the Section „Politics and Gender“in the German Political Science Associationin cooperation with the DFG Research Training Group „Contradiction Studies“ and the Research Network „Worlds of Contradiction“ On the occasion of the Section’s 30th anniversary, the 15th Speakers’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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