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.
“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
“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
“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka