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.
You can find the programme here.
More general information about the conference can be found here.
“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
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka