Veranstaltungen

Vom 10.–14. November 2025 veranstaltet die interdisziplinäre Verbundforschungsplattform Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) aus Anlass ihres zehnjährigen Bestehens das WOC Contradictions Festival in Kooperation mit dem DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2686 – Contradiction Studies, dem Berliner DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2638 – Normativität, Kritik, Wandel, der Bremen International Graduate School of Social […]

With a commitment to the black body, the woman body, the queer or non-conforming body, the fugitive body, the errant body, the sick or uniquely abled body,  the decolonial body, the collective body, and how it is seen, felt, loved, and cared for, Phoebe Boswell will […]

Podiumsteilnehmer:innen:Dr. Onur Erdur | Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & WOC Gastprofessor 2025Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich | Institut für Soziologie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main & Institut für SozialforschungProf. Dr. Rozena Maart | University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban & GRK2686-Mercator Fellow Moderation:PD Dr. Ehler Voss | […]

Onur Erdur (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & WOC Gastprofessor 2025) im Gespräch mit Karen Struve und Ehler Voss über sein Buch Schule des Südens: Die kolonialen Wurzeln der französischen Theorie. Eine vollständige Programmübersicht zum 10 Jahre WOC – Contradictions Festivals im Zeitraum 10.–14. November 2025 findet […]

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

Historical references have become part and parcel of modern political and public discourse while today’s ever-changing postmigrant societies pose new challenges to long-standing mnemonic practices, as has been vividly discussed in Germany over the past years. Since 2017, claims that newly arriving migrants should be educated in Holocaust history became louder, recently culminating in a revised curriculum for the mandatory integration courses. In our paper we will show how, based on the assumption that Holocaust remembrance can convey values of German society, this new curriculum aims at historical literacy for the purpose of igniting a sense of responsibility for society amongst the newcomers.Yet, so we will argue, the same memory politics also risk to exclude people from the „national culture“ by neglecting responses to Holocaust history that might look different to the ones expected by mainstream society. By drawing from ongoing ethnographic research into different memory-educational programs for refugees in Germany, we seek to illustrate how paradoxes of plural democracy are negotiated on the basis of mnemonic practices and the construction of a collective memory more generally. Our aim is to shift the focus of current debates on German memory politics to the contradictions that underly some of the claims about its collective memory, especially the idea that a shared memory will create harmony amid a diverse society shaped by a multitude of memories.

DeMarg 5 International Conference »Tracing Forms of De/Marginalization« – Research Window: Insights into Current DeMarg-relevant Projects

AMS!-Theater, WoC-GradNet: Jonas Trochemowitz, Deborah Nyangulu, Jan Dittrich Open Campus

DeMarg 5 International Conference »Tracing Forms of De/Marginalization« – Research Window: Insights into Current DeMarg-relevant Projects

Konferenz des European Network on Discourses of Marginality and Demarginalization (DeMarg)

DeMarg 5 International Conference »Tracing Forms of De/Marginalization« – Research Window: Insights into Current DeMarg-relevant Projects

Brunn Morais (GRK Contradiction Studies) Kommentare Fellow: Jan Dittrich (GRK Contradiction Studies) Gast: Prof. Dr. Helen Verran (Charles Darwin University)

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