Events
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Toolbox #5Toolbox in the winter term 2025
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Toolbox #6Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #7Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Grau, kalt und rechts? Wie reden wir über „Ostdeutschland“?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.
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Toolbox #8
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Contradictions Festival – 10 years WOC
In fall 2025, Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) will be 10 years old. An overview of the planned program is available on the WOC website.
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Early Career Vernetzungsworkshop
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
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Toolbox #9
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Workshop: Research Data Management
Further information will follow shortly.
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Toolbox #10
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #11
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #12
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Toolbox #13
Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium Contradiction Studies #1
Workspace/Kolloquium #1 in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium #3Workspace/Kolloquium #3 in the winter term 2025/26
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Workspace/Kolloquium #4
Workspace/Kolloquium #4 in the winter term 2025/26
Past Events
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Law and (its) ContradictionsReadings Brown, Wendy. 2002. Suffering the Paradoxes of Rights. In Brown, Wendy & Janet Halley (eds.) Left Legalism/Left Critique, 420–434. Durham: Duke University Press. [Dt.: Brown, Wendy. [2002] 2011. Die Paradoxien der Rechte ertragen. In Menke, Christoph, Franceska Raimondi (eds.) Die Revolution der Menschenrechte: grundlegende Texte zu einem neuen Begriff des Politischen, 454–473. Berlin: Suhrkamp.] Supplementary Readings Austermann, Nele. 2021. Recht der Diversität. In Fischer-Lescano, […]
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Spaces Old and NewReadings Lossau, Julia. 2020. Anthropogeography. In Kobayashi, Audrey (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography 1, 147-154. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Massey, Doreen. 1999. Spaces of Politics. In Massey, Doreen, John Allen & Philip Sarre (eds.): Human Geography Today, 279-294.Cambridge, Malden: Polity Press.
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Conflicting Spatialities?Please read one of two texts in the version of your choice. Readings Lefebvre, Henri (1974): Dessein de l‘Ouvrage. In: Lefebvre, Henri: La Production de l’Espace, 39–53. Paris: Editions Anthropos. [Dt.: Lefebvre, Henri [1974] (2006): Die Produktion des Raums. Übersetzt von Jörg Dünne. In Dünne, Jörg, Stephan Günzel (eds.): Raumtheorie. Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaften, 330-342. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.] [Engl.: Lefebvre, Henri [1974](2007): Plan of the present work. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. […]
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Book “Nullerjahre”: Reading and discussion with Hendrik BolzHendrik Bolz reads from his book “Nullerjahre”. Organisation and moderation by Klaas Anders.
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The Power of the PowerlessReadings Havel, Václav. 1985. The Power of the powerless. In Havel, Václav, John Keane & Steven Lukes (eds.), The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the state in central-eastern Europe, 23–96. London: Routledge.
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Content and goals of toolbox and colloquium
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Discourses in Contradiction
Readings: Felder, Ekkehard. 2006. Semantische Kämpfe in Wissensdomänen. Eine Einführung in Benennungs-,Bedeutungs-und Sachverhaltsfixierungs-Konkurrenzen. In Felder, Ekkehard (ed.), Semantische Kämpfe. Macht und Sprache in den Wissenschaften, 13–46. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. Foucault, Michel. 1969. L’archéologie du savoir. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, Chap. 3: ›Les contradictions‹, 195–204. [Eng.: The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books, Chap. 3: […]
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Like oil and water? Religion and Science
Readings: Bergunder, Michael. 2016.»Religion« and »Science«Within a Global Religious History. In Aries–Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 16, 86–141. Subramaniam, Banu. 2019. Holy Science: The Biopolitcs of Hindu Nationalism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Chap.3: ›Return of the Native: Nation, Nature, and Postcolonial Environmentalism‹, 113–140.
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Textuality of Contradiction
Contradiction Studies und literaturwissenschaftliche Mediävistik | Contradiction and Medieval Literary Studies (Vortrag Elisabeth Lienert) Poetische Ambiguitäten und Rhetorik des Widerspruchs | Poetic Ambiguities and Rhetorics of Contradiction (close readings with Gisela Febel)
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»Either you are the victim of a wrong, or you are not. «(Jean-François Lyotard)»
Readings: Lyotard, Jean-François. 1983. Le Différend. Paris: Minuit, 9–19. [Engl.: 1988. The Differend. Phrases in Dispute. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, xi–6.]; [Ger.:1989.Der Widerstreit. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 9–21.] Supplementary Readings: Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari. 1975. Kafka. Pour une littérature mineure. Paris: Minuit, Chap. 3: ›Qu’est-ce qu’une littérature mineure?‹, 29–50. [Engl.: 1986. Kafka. Towards […]