Workshops

This collaborative workshop will engage in a close reading and critical analysis of primary source documents (in English translation) from 4 key moments in post-World War II German history: an excerpt of a transcript from a focus group discussion among working-class women held in 1950 in Frankfurt/Main, in which themes of Nazi sexual politics and the tenacious persistence of antidisability animus and “eugenic” propaganda are evident; excerpts from the testimony of coercive sterilization survivors and a historian advocating on their behalf at a session of the Bundestag in 1987; politicians’ cross-party motion of 2011 calling for a federal memorial to the victims of the Nazi “euthanasia” murders; and AfD and CDU campaign posters expressing opposition to inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools. […]

Ethnographic researchers can find themselves confronted with a deceptively simple question: What am I doing here? In the field, researchers regularly encounter moments of uncertainty, ethical tension, and contradiction, particularly when working from feminist and intersectional perspectives that foreground questions of power, positionality, and responsibility. […]

Moderation: Prof. Rozena Maart (U Kwa-Zulu Natal, GRK Contradiction Studies) Anmeldung zum Workshop per Mail: shk.grk2686@uni-bremen.de

Workshop for (post-)doctoral students by the DFG Research Training Group “Contradiction Studies – Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory” with the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and the Research Data Center (RDC) Qualiservice.

Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis an der Universität Bremen– Eine Orientierungshilfe –Online-Workshop mit dem DFG Graduiertenkolleg 2686:Contradiction Studies

An event by the DFG Research Training Group 2686 „Contradiction Studies –Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory“ in cooperation with theBremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and the Research Data Center (RDC) Qualiservice. Presentations will be in English, but contributions can be […]