Events

What is “East Germany”? We want to talk about a region often perceived as gray, cold, and politically right-leaning. We aim to discuss how East German lifeworlds are constructed in media representations, political debates, and cultural and literary narratives, navigating between self-description and external attribution, between memory and the present.

In fall 2025, Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) will be 10 years old. An overview of the planned program is available on the WOC website.

Early Career Networking Workshop as part of the 10th anniversary of the WOC Contradictions Festival with members of the WOC Graduate Network (WOC GradNet), the DFG Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies, the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), the Institute for Social Research (IfS) and the GRK 2638 Normativity, Critique, Change

At the kickoff workshop of the WoC-Lab Religion glokal

Panel 5: Uncertainty of a ‘Natural’ Order. (Queer) Feminist Uncertainties/Certainties at the Congress Politische Theorie in Zeiten der Unsicherheit.

Congress Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty

Panel 5:
Verunsicherung einer ‘natürlichen’ Ordnung. (Queer-)feministische Un/Gewissheiten at the Congress Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty.

political theory in times of uncertainty

Lecture at the Dreiländertagung Politikwissenschaft “Zeitenwende – Politik(Wissenschaft) in unsicheren Zeiten”

The diagnosis of an epistemization of the political, according to which political questions in Western democracies would increasingly be negotiated as questions of knowledge, is confirmed also in the debate about the state imposed measures to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2. This tendency would suggest the possibility of objective decision-making through science and a lack […]

18.-21. July 2023 63. Junge Tagung Öffentliches Recht in Hamburg.

In this Lunchbox we want to discuss what it means to consider contradictions a product of declaration. In order to make clear the history and theoretical assumption of this concept, we want to give a brief input on Speech Act Theory and provide some concrete examples of declarations of contradictions. The main part of this […]