Veranstaltungen

Was ist „Ostdeutschland“? Wir wollen reden, über einen Raum, der meist als grau, kalt und politisch rechts wahrgenommen wird. Wir wollen diskutieren, wie ostdeutsche Lebenswelten in medialen Darstellungen, politischen Debatten und kulturellen und literarischen Erzählungen konstruiert werden zwischen Selbstbeschreibung und Fremdzuschreibung, zwischen Erinnerung und Gegenwart.

 Im Herbst 2025 wird Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) 10 Jahre alt. Eine Übersicht über das geplante Programm ist auf der WOC Website verfügbar.

Early Career Vernetzungsworkshop im Rahmen von 10 Jahre WOC Contradictions Festivals mit Mitgliedern des WOC Graduiertennetzwerks (WOC GradNet), des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs 2686 Contradiction Studies, der Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) & des Instituts für Sozialforschung (IfS) und des GRK 2638 Normativität, Kritik, Wandel

workshop with Damani Partridge on Blackness and the contradictions of solidarity and research practices in constellations of noncitizenship.

Prof. Rozena Maart (University of
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) will read from her new collection which
was published together with Joan Madibeng in March 2023. This event is
open to anyone who is interested. There will be a Q&A session
afterwards. This event will be held in English.

Damani Partridge from U Michigan discusses his new book Blackness as a Universal Claim. Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Furtures and Black Power in Berlin with Rozena Maart (U KwaZulu-Natal) and Lewis R. Gordon (UCON), moderated by Katrin Antweiler (IfEK/WoC, U Bremen).

Drawing upon ideas from Fear of Black Consciousness
(Penguin, 2022) / Angst vor Schwarzem Bewusstsein
(Ullstein Verlag, 2022), this talk will offer a portrait
of Black existentialism, summarizing some of its key
problematics with emphasis on problems wrought
from Euromodern colonization of knowledge. The talk
will conclude with a discussion of what decolonizing
knowledge entails.

“Contradiction” is a core concept in the humanities and the social sciences. Beside the classical ideas of logical or dialectical contradiction, instances of “lived” contradiction and strategies of coping with it are objects of this study. Contradiction Studies discuss the many ways in which explicit or implicit contradictions are negotiated in different political or cultural settings. This volume collects articles that tackle the concept of contradiction, practices of contradicting and lived contradictions from a number of relevant perspectives and assembles contributions from linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, and media studies.