Veranstaltungen
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Welcome Retreat
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Workshop #1 – Data as/in Contradictions: Research, Practices, Politics (Postdoc Intro)
Drawing on the research projects of the postdoctoral Fellows of the RTG 2686, this three-part workshop invites our doctoral researchers to collectively reflect on the intersections between data and contradictions. We will explore how data is both shaped by political, social, and epistemic contradictions and, in turn, actively shapes these contradictions.
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Workshop #2 – Solidarity by Choice and Not by Co-optation: Getting to Know Each Other Using Different Data Stories
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Toolbox #3: How to decolonize Contradiction | Resistance and Counterhegemony
Toolbox #3a | »The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – How to decolonize Contradiction (Gisela Febel & Kerstin Knopf)
Toolbox #3b | Resistance and Counterhegemony (Gisela Febel)
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Workshop #3 – Data as/in Contradictions: Research, Practices, Politics
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Toolbox #4: Life/World/Concept
Toolbox im Sommersemester 2025
Vergangene Termine
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Black Atlantic Affordances. Contested Memory Cultures
Dr. Deborah Nyangulu and Dr. Jana Weiss convened the ‚Black Atlantic Affordances. Contested Memory Cultures` conference at the University of Texas at Austin from Feb 23 – 25. The event featured a range of speakers who engaged with, among others, questions of Black freedom, memory cultures, , the Black radical tradition, African diaspora, and digital humanities. Prof. Dr. Ashley D. Farmer (UT Austin) and independent researcher, writer, and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola gave the keynote addresses. The conference also featured a roundtable on the topic of ‚Black Atlantic Affordance and Digital Humanities‘ with speakers Kelly Baker Josephs, Justin Dunnavant, Amani Morrison, and moderated by Deborah Nyangulu.
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Workshop with John Holloway
The workshop is open to BA, MA, and PhD Candidates. We have currently reserved 5 places for members of the Training Group. Please, register with me in advance, if you are interested.
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Bänkelsang to a binaural beat – The issue, the method of delivery, agnotology and the contradiction of selling ‚rodenticide‘
We (Laura Ziegler & Dean E. Stephanus) invite you to think with us as we invoke the legacy of the bench singers “Bänkelsang” that were active in the region that would become Germany from at least the 17th century until the practice was banned by the Nazi’s. Acting as proto journalists, researchers and performers, the bench singers gathered news stories and histories that alerted people to what was going on, information that would have been otherwise concealed, censored and often inaccessible by the subordinate masses (class, race, gender) due to illiteracy.
We use the motif of the bench singers to revisit an old question in the humanities and political organising, how to methodologically find ways to make accessible, communicate, and share information with the mass public(s). And importantly we wrestle with the contradiction of that aim. We refer to this as our rat poison, a reference to times when bench singers of old sold rodenticide to make money for their itinerant performances. We would like to engage the ways in which real-life maintenance of the body contradicts the aims set out to liberate the body.
The talk will include links to current questions we debate as cultural workers and humans. Through the use of zine making we tease out certain topics, one example of a zine that will be presented in the talk is through the medium of biography we discuss the life of Mabel Grammer, a black journalist who played an important and little-known role in the „Brown Baby Plan“ of post-war Germany. This was a private adoption agency that arranged the adoption of over 500 Afro-German children to African-American couples, particularly in the 1950s. And then link it to a so-called ‘brown baby’ who lived a life in Germany deeply affected by race, Robert Pilatus. Pilatus was a member of the once popular Afro/Pop duo known as Milli Vanilli.
Our approach is usually dialogical. We speak in a down-to-earth manner and encourage all participants to feel free, to question or challenge us, to add or think with us throughout the talk.
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Vollversammlung
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Hoffnung in hoffnungslosen Zeiten
Prof. John Holloway ist bekannt für seine einflussreichen Schriften zur Erneuerung marxistischer Theorie, zum Verhältnis von Staat und Kapitalismus und Formen anti-kapitalistischer Kämpfe. Dazu gehören die Bücher Die Welt verändern, ohne die Macht zu übernehmen (2002), das international großen Anklang fand und mittlerweile in elf Sprachen übersetzt wurde, sowie Kapitalismus Aufbrechen (2010). Gemeinsam mit seinem neusten Buch Hope in Hopeless Times (2022) sind diese nun zu einer Trilogie geworden.
Mit seinem neusten Buch widmet sich John Holloway der Formulierung eines Verständnisses von Hoffnung gegen die scheinbar unaufhaltsame Zerstörung unserer Welt, auf die wir zurasen. Dabei versteht er diese Hoffnung in unserem „Reichtum“ begründet; ein Reichtum, der sich nicht auf Geld und Profit reduzieren lässt, sondern als „überfließende“ [overflowing] Kreativität verstanden werden soll, die radikale gesellschaftliche Veränderungen ermöglichen kann und daher eine Quelle der Hoffnung ist. „Reichtum gegen Geld: dieser Kampf wird über die Zukunft der Menschheit entscheiden“.
Der Vortrag wird gemeinsam vom Institut für Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaft, Worlds of Contradiction (WoC), dem DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Contradiction Studies und dem Fachbereich 09 veranstaltet und findet im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „Herausforderung Klimawandel – kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf das Leben in einer bedrohten Welt“ und als Teil des Kolloquiums für Politische Theorie „Wilde Theorie“ statt. Der Vortrag wird in deutscher Sprache gehalten, mit Q&A auf Deutsch und Englisch.
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Zwischen Linguistik, Widersprüchen und Feminismus. Ein Werkstattbericht zum Promotionsprojekt Abtreibung – Diachronie eines Gegendiskurses
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Contradicting Contradiction. Knowledge Production and the Pluriversal Turn
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Faculty Meeting
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Memory and Morals in Transnational Constellations
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Vorstandssitzung