DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

Events

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Past Events

Caring for Contradictions

Carolin Zieringer (RTG Contradiction Studies), Klaas Anders (RTG Contradiction Studies), Prof. Dr. Sabine Hark (Technische Universität Berlin)

Internal, Talk

12/13/2022

2:30 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030
Perspectives of Human Rights Clauses in Free Trade Agreements of the EU

Nils Kohlmeyer (RTG Contradiction Studies), Jan Schulze Buschoff (RTG Contradiction Studies), Dr. Sebastian Eickenjäger (University Bremen)

Internal, Talk

12/13/2022

4:30 pm–6:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030
How to Handle your (Digital) Research Data Responsibly

An event by the DFG Research Training Group 2686 “Contradiction Studies –Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory” in cooperation with theBremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and the Research Data Center (RDC) Qualiservice. Presentations will be in English, but contributions can be […]

Workshop

12/07/2022

9:00 am–3:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 0030
Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption

Dr. Deborah Nyangulu (RTG Contradiction Studies), Lindokuhle Shabene, Prof.Dr. Sabine Broeck (Universität Bremen)

Internal, Talk

12/06/2022

2:30 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030
Learning Skills from Media Instructions

Jan Dittrich (RTG Contradiction Studies), Brunn Morais, Prof. Dr. Hannes Krämer (University Duisburg-Essen)

Internal, Talk

12/06/2022

4:30 pm–6:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030
Conceptualizing Resistance and Counterhegemony

Readings Mittelman, James, Christine B. N. Chin. 2000. Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalization. In Mittelmann, James The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance, 165-178. Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823697.165

Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal, Talk

11/29/2022

2:30 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030
Working with the Concepts of Resistance and Counterhegemony

Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal, Other

11/29/2022

4:30 pm–6:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030
Exclusionary Inclusions: Race in (Trans)national Imaginaries

The first discussion in WoC’s new Agora format will focus on the exclusionary effects of contemporary discourses and politics of inclusion. Taking the globalization and mediatization of the Black Lives Matter movement as a starting point, the event will discuss transcultural negotiations of anti-racism against the backdrop of different colonial histories.

Panel Discussion

11/29/2022

6:15 pm

U Bremen CART 067 & online
Alltag und Netzwerke des tschechoslowakischen Exils in Wien nach 1968

Colloquium on Eastern European History, Research Center for Eastern Europe Bremen.

Klaas Anders

Talk

11/29/2022

6:15 pm–7:45 pm

U Bremen IW3 0390
Law and (its) Contradictions

Readings 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: […]

Lilli Hasche (RTG Contradiction Studies) und Nils Kohlmeier (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal, Talk

11/22/2022

2:30 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf

hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)
Rozena Maart

prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht

Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf