Talks

Panel presentation at the ECPG (European Consortium on Politics and Gender) 2024.

This Expert Talk is part of the lecture series “Bremer Denkanstöße” by the Institut für postkoloniale und transkulturelle Studien (INPUTS), U Bremen.

Keynote of the Conference „Living Archives“ Geschichte und Gegenwart intersektional-feministischer Bewegungen in Theorie und Praxis.

Talk at the Bremer Kolloquium für politische Theorie.

Colloquium for Modern History and Historical Migration Research, University of Osnabrück

Keynote and discussion with Dr. Rosine Kelz at Sie*Krit 2024, “Who Cares?! …and for what?”. Teaching/learning festival in precarious times.

As part of the study conference “Streit als Chance? Kommunikative Praktiken des Streitens als Vehikel sozialer Aushandlung” Jonas Trochemowitz (Associate PhD student) will give a talk.

Medieval debates about the human will take place against the backdrop of a particular tension: that between a person’s own will, usually considered free, and the will of an “other,” especially the will of God. In the Christian tradition, this tension is succinctly expressed in the prayer petition “Fiat voluntas tua,” “Thy (not my!) will be done.” It was perhaps most radically developed in medieval mysticism. The mystics also found a solution to it that seems to amount to a paradox: to will nothing. But the tension between wanting and not wanting also plays an important role outside of theology and mysticism. The lecture will outline different perspectives of medieval (and early modern) texts on the volitional paradox of “wanting not to want.” It will also attempt to build a bridge to relevant contemporary discourses, such as the concept of “un/controllability” (“Un-/Verfügbarkeit”) in sociological resonance theory.

At the Sommerakademie Feministische Rechtswissenschaft 2024.

In psychoanalysis and pedagogy, there is a long tradition of thinking about contradictions, which are not only at the center of reflections on action in theory, but also in practice – qua connection of the respective discipline with a profession. In addition to Freud’s dictum that psychoanalysis and pedagogy are among the “impossible professions” due to these contradictions, one of the best-known pedagogical concepts is that of the “antinomies of pedagogical action” according to Helsper et al. First, information is provided about these theoretical traditions in order to build interdisciplinary bridges. Then, the theory of trilemmatic inclusion is used to develop a proposal on how formal-logical contradictions (Aristotelian), contradictory imperatives for action in a situated practice (antinomic) and self-contradictory desire (psychoanalytic) can be related to each other.