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Cooperation with the University of the Western Cape on Decentering the Museum and Postcolonial Politics of Memory – Visit of three doctoral students to BremenBetween 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…
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Publication of the Working Paper “Einrichtungsantrag Contradiction Studies – Konstellationen, Heuristiken und Konzepte des Widersprüchlichen, Lesefassung”The Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies has published a working paper last year. It can be found here.
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Queerness als Teil der Schöpfung. Jonas Trochemowitz at the Science SlamIn a short presentation of 10 Minutes for a lay audience, Jonas Trochemowitz presented his research at the popular-scientific event Science Slam.
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Out now: Conference Programme “Living Archives” History and present of intersectional-feminist movements in theory and practiceAfter 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.
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The Old Drift: Disruption. Open Access nowThe 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…
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Call for Papers „Exploring Contradictions beyond Contradiction. 1st International Conference on Contradiction Studies“ | University of Bremen | February 11–14, 2025Contradictions 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…
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Job Advertisement: Scientific CoordinatorIn 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…
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ESF Conference „Territory, Tension & Taboo“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…
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Black Atlantic Affordances. Contested Memory CulturesDr. 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…
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CALL FOR PAPERS “Living Archives” Past and Present of Intersectional-Feminist Movements in Theory and PraxisOn the occasion of the Section’s 30th anniversary, the 15th Speakers’ Council of the DVPW (German Political Science Association) Section “Politics and Gender” will organize the conference “Living Archives”. The conference is dedicated to the…
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CompLit Interview with Deborah NyanguluDeborah 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”.
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Mercator Fellow Graham Priest will be visiting the RTG from December 1-5, 2023We 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:
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Elephants in the Room: Autumn/Spring School on Post/Colonial Memory Politics
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…
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Theorieblog.de reports about panel uncertainty of a ‘natural’ orderBlogpost 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).
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The program of the colloquium in the winter term 2023/24 is availableAn 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…
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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:
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Our Fellow Jan Dittrich presents his work in the up2date online magazine
Forschen zwischen Küche und Computer – Jan Dittrich untersucht, wie wir mit Anleitungen lernen. Article for up2date Magazine Fellow Jan Dittrich