Vorträge
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Workspace #16 – Das Schiff und das Unheimliche. Spektralität und gesellschaftliche Umbrüche in französischen und spanischen Kurzerzählungen um 1900 | Gastvortrag & Discussion
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Workspace #18 – Polarization and the Paradoxes of Politics’s Self-Observation | Gastvortrag & DiskussionA spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of polarization. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy hunt against this spectre. Where is the opposition party that has not been decried as polarizing by its governing opponents? Where the opposition party […]
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Workspace #20 – Imagining Infrastructure: Agency, Artefact, and the Rise of the Neo-human Subject | Gastvortrag & Diskussion
The field of infrastructure studies lies at a critical juncture marked by novel kinds of logistical interfaces, new configurations of agency, and enduring neo-Foucauldian concerns with the shifting contours of the human subject. In this presentation I develop a conceptual synthesis between four analytical perspectives: an emphasis on infrastructure as a set of cultural and material artefacts marked by diverse modes of enquiry; the co-evolutionary dynamics of infrastructure networks in relation to the corporeal vulnerabilities of urban space; the emergence of successive socio-technical imaginaries that connect with the metonymic or ideological significance of urban infrastructure; and the significance of infrastructure as an epistemological vantage point for embodied encounters with urban space. I show how the question of infrastructure intersects with a series of wider debates over agency, subjectivity, and the rise of algorithmic governmentalities. I emphasize the value of creative practice as a vibrant alternative to creeping forms of analytical modularity and neo-positivist epistemological elision.
Vergangene Termine
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Datenpolitiken im Spiegel der Contradiction StudiesVortrag im Rahmen des Kolloquiums Contradiction Studies
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Wissen, Widerspruch und Wissenschaftsfreiheit. Wie man gemeinsam einen Sammelband schreibtVorstellung des Sammelbandes zum Thema „Wissen, Widerspruch und Wissenschaftsfreiheit“ und Diskussion zur Frage „wie man gemeinsam einen Sammelband schreibt“.
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Widerspruchsresponsives Recht. Suchformel gerechter Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen
Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung Die Vielfalt des Rechts der Sektion Rechtssoziologie an der Universität Marburg
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Contradictions in Narrow Definitions of Gender-Based Violence Against Men During Armed ConflictPhilile Langa’s presentation will focus on gender-based violence against men during armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960-present). Her research is about challenging and shifting the understanding of what gender-based violence during armed conflict looks like, primarily through revolutionary Black African theories […]
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The Entanglements of Race, Gender and Sexuality. South African Indian Contradictions
Durban South African Indian people exhibit heteronormative attitudes toward gender and sexuality. In this talk, Braedon Steven argues that the racialization of Durban South African Indians, shaped by British colonialism, is central to understanding these conservative views. The migration of British colonial ideals enforced, precisely, […]
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Reading the Present with History. Reading the Past with AnthropologyThis talk focuses on an afro-diasporic community located in an Andalusian town (Southern Spain). It concerns a series of families whose identity is linked to the early modern slave trade, while Spanish mainstream society tends not to remember this period of its history. During the […]
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Erinnerungspolitik als Reparation? Perspektiven aus Namibia und Deutschland
Oftmals wird Erinnerungspolitik materiellen Formen der Reparation gegenübergestellt. Mit der Absicht dieser Vereinfachung etwas entgegen zu setzen, haben wir Laidlaw Peringanda zu einem Vortrag mit anschließendem Gespräch eingeladen. Laidlaw Peringanda ist Ovaherero-Aktivist, Künstler, Vorsitzender der Namibian Genocide Association und Gründer des Swakopmund Genocide Museums. Anknüpfend […]
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WOC GradNet Lecture Series #4: Labeling Theory in Language and Sexuality StudiesIn his talk Heiko Motschbacher seeks to make a theoretical contribution to the field of language and sexuality (Motschenbacher 2022). His goal is to use the sociological approach of labeling theory (Becker 1963) to inform discussions in language and sexuality studies. On the one hand, […]
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Literatur als koloniale Beute? Provenienzgeschichten 1910-2021Kann Literatur – analog zur Raubkunst – zu kolonialer Beute werden? Der Vortrag thematisiert die europäische Aneignung afrikanischer Literaturen im Kolonialismus und gibt einen Einblick in die Erforschung literarischer Provenienz: von der Aufzeichnungssituation oraler Literaturen über ihre ethnologische Publikation und ihre avantgardistischen Verarbeitungen bis hin […]
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Faces of Enslavement. Contradictions, Contestations and ComplexitiesWithin the history of the Cape, the southern most tip of Africa, the period of Enslavement began in 1652 from the East and West of Africa, then from Bengal, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mauritius. The project “Faces of Enslavement” is part of a larger project called […]