Veranstaltungen
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Workspace #13 – Welcome
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Workspace #14 – Projektpräsentation14.15–15.00 Uhr | Clara Müllenmeister
— Wider die Norm. Zweifelsfälle referenzieller Geschlechtszuschreibung / Cases of Doubt in Referential Gender Assignment
Discussants: Dr. Lesley-Ann Kern (U zu Köln)
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Workspace #15 – Writing Workshop—pt. 1Writing an academic thesis is a complex process that presents its own challenges. Dr. Birgit Schreiber, a social researcher, journalist, and coach from Bremen, together with journalist Uwe Buse, will teach how to reliably navigate this process in this two-day workshop, which provides guidance on effective self-coaching. The workshop is offered bilingually (English, German).
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So wie wir sind. Plurale Gegenwarten. Wer erzählt den Osten?Wer erzählt den Osten – und wessen Perspektiven prägen bis heute unser Bild von Ostdeutschland? Die Geschichte der deutschen Einheit wurde lange vor allem als Ost-West-Erzählung verhandelt. Andere Machtverhältnisse wie Rassismus, Antisemitismus oder Sexismus blieben dabei oft ausgeblendet. Die Erfahrungen von Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte, Schwarzen Ostdeutschen, den Kindern ehemaliger Vertragsarbeiter*innen und anderen marginalisierten Gruppen fanden nur selten Eingang in die öffentliche Erinnerung.
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Workspace #15 – Writing Workshop—pt. 2Writing an academic thesis is a complex process that presents its own challenges. Dr. Birgit Schreiber, a social researcher, journalist, and coach from Bremen, together with journalist Uwe Buse, will teach how to reliably navigate this process in this two-day workshop, which provides guidance on effective self-coaching. The workshop is offered bilingually (English, German). Practical exercises will be conducted as much as possible using texts provided by the participants.
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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 #17 – Workshop on Unconscious Bias Training
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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 #19 – RTG 2686 Collaboration Partners—Series Pt. 1/2026— Building Bridges to the Bremen Art Whor. An Excursion to Weserburg. Museum für modern Kunst
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Workspace #20 – Imagining Infrastructure: Agency, Artefact, and the Rise of the Neo-human Subject | Gastvortrag & DiskussionThe 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.
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Workspace #21 – Workshop on Research Methodology—Pt. 1— Research Approaches and Methodologies Reflecting specific research projects within the broader spectrum of possible research approaches and methodologies.
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Workspace #22 – Workshop on Research Methodology—pt. 2— Fellow Research Approaches and Methodologies: A Hands-on Follow-up Contextualizing RTG 2686 Fellow projects within the broader spectrum of research approaches and methodologies
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Workspace #23 – Workshop & Wrap-Up— Deep Dive Reading and Reflection on the Writing Process: Writing and Text Feedback Techniques
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Workspace #24 – Relevanz. Über den Erkenntniswert wissenschaftlicher Forschung | Guest Lecture & Discussion— Relevanz. Über den Erkenntniswert wissenschaftlicher Forschung
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Workspace #25 – From Contrasts to Wars: Degrees of Agonality in Contradictions | Workshop with Mercator Fellow Michael HampeDetails will follow. Mercator Fellow Michael Hampe will be at the RTG 2686 from January 18 to 22, 2027.
Vergangene Termine
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OMEN—Filmscreening im Rahmen der Ausstellung Anys Reimann: MirrorballKooperationsveranstaltung des GRK 2686 mit Weserburg. Museum für moderne Kunst, CITY 46 Bremen, Afrikanetzwerk Bremen | Organisiert von Dr. Nelson Sindze Wembe
Über den Film | Mit seinem Spielfilmdebüt erforscht der Musiker, Filmemacher und Allroundkünstler Baloji auf eindringliche Weise, wie sehr der Glauben das Schicksal seiner vier Hauptfiguren beeinflusst. OMEN ist ein bildgewaltiger Film mit Elementen aus Surrealismus und magischem Realismus, ein umwerfender Beweis für die kreative Energie des aktuellen afrikanischen Kinos.
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The Tree of Authenticity—Filmscreening im Rahmen der Ausstellung Anys Reimann: MirrorballKooperationsveranstaltung des GRK 2686 mit Weserburg. Museum für moderne Kunst, flux – Café. Bar. Begegnungen, Afrikanetzwerk Bremen, KlimaWerkStadt Bremen und Lucie Garten | Organisiert von Dr. Nelson Sindze Wembe
Der Dokumentarfilm The Tree of Authenticity (2025) des kongolesischen Filmemachers, Fotografen und Videokünstlers Sammy Baloji beleuchtet die Verbindung von Kolonialismus und Klimakrise – aus der Perspektive des Baumes der Authentizität. Ausgehend von den Überresten eines ehemaligen Forschungszentrums für tropische Landwirtschaft in Yangambi, Demokratische Republik Kongo, untersucht Baloji die Verbindungen zwischen kolonialer Ausbeutung, wissenschaftlicher Forschung und der heutigen Klimakrise.
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Workspace #13 Projektpräsentation und Wrap-upEllen Masur
— Feminist Rewriting als Praktik des Wi(e)dersprechens. Eine empirische Untersuchung von mehrdimensionalen Wirkweisen feministischer RechtsauslegungProf. Dr. Yan Suarsana
— Wrap-Up
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The Environmental Impact of LiteratureIs contemporary literature—and storytelling in general—helping to address the accelerating climate and nature crisis, or adding fuel to the fire? Tens of thousands of articles in literary and cultural criticism have approached this question primarily through close readings of environmentally focused novels and films, but this methodology cannot provide a much-needed macro perspective. In this talk, I discuss the potential of narratives to shape our beliefs, attitudes and behaviors and describe the development of the Strategic Environmental Narratives codebook and the results of its application to 500 stories in the most prestigious literary magazine in the Anglosphere. […]
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Workspace #12 — ProjektpräsentationenJean Marie Bakaïwé Ngabra
— Der Einsatz von KI-Tools zur Förderung der Schreib- und Sprechkompe-tenz im DaF-unterricht: eine Untersuchung der Motivation von DaF-Lernenden am Beispiel KamerunMiguel Ángel Prieto-Castellanos
— Becoming Aware of Ignorance and Contradiction
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Workshop on Jacques Derrida by RTG 2686 Mercator FellowWorkshop on Jacques Derrida This workshop offers an overall account of the work of Algerian born Jacques Derrida, educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, between 1949 and 1956. His work has been read within a broad range of […]
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GRK 2686 — Vernetzungsretreat
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Workspace #10 — ProjektpräsentationenThomas Itsuo Fujishima
—Imaginaries of More-than-human Resistance: Life, Farming, and Posthuman Politics in JapanYash Gupta
— Of मिर्ची in Our Blood: Intergenerational Dis/abilities and Toxic Contra-dictions of Postcolonial Care in the Survivor Narratives of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
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Workshop — What Am I Doing Here? Power, Positionality, and Contradictions in Ethnographic ResearchEthnographic 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. […]
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Workspace #09 — ProjektpräsentationenClara Müllenmeister
— Wider die Norm. Zweifelsfälle referenzieller GeschlechtszuweisungJana Faber
— Rechtskämpfe um Feminizide. Strategien im Spannungsfeld zwischen Feminismus und Abolitionismus