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.
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)
Rozena Maart
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”
Ingo H. Warnke