Mercator Fellow Rozena Maart will be visiting the RTG from June 18-30, 2023.

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:


19.06.2023
13 – 15.00 | Open Office Hours at Grazer Straße 2
18 – 20.30 | INPUTS panel discussion:
Lewis Gordon “Black Existentialism and Decolonial Thinking”


20.06.2023
10 – 13.00 | Workshop with Lewis Gordon
“Unpacking Coloniality”
14 – 16.00 | Open Office Hours in Grazer Straße 2
ab 18.00 | Damani Patridge (University of Michigan), Book Launch.
Blackness as
Universal Claim
(University of California Press, 2022)


21.06.2023
16 – 18 | Café International – Book Launch:
66 Women who build a better future for
South Africa


22.06.2023
16.15 – 19.30 | GRK Toolbox Lecture:
Black Bodies on South African beaches: Lus en Smaak jou lekkerding


23.06.2023
14:00 | Opening Event of Open Campus


24.06.2023
12:00 | Open Campus

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name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

Kerstin Knopf
problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff
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
coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana