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

Talks

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Past Events

Experimenting with Collaboration. Between Transformism and Transformation

Hanna Schwamborn Comments Fellow: Caro Zieringer Guest: N.N.

Hanna Schwamborn

Talk, Internal

06/01/2023

4:14 pm–5:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
How to Research Indigenous Resistance Against Extractivism in Siberia in a Non-Extractivist Mode?

Dr. Philipp Goll | Department of Media Studies | Universität Siegen

Dr. Philipp Goll

Talk

06/01/2023

6:00 pm–7:30 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Negotiations of the Self in Muslim Online Magazines

Rosa Lütge Comments Fellow: Eva Arnaszus Guest: Dr. Carmen Becker | Institut für Religionswissenschaft | Universität Hannover

Rosa Lütge

Talk, Internal

05/23/2023

4:15 pm–5:45 pm

U Bremen GW1 A 0150 & online
The History of African Philosophy as a Site of Contradictions

Lindokuhle Shabane Comments Fellow: Dr. Debora Nyangulu Guest: Dr. Jonathan Chimakonam | University of Pretoria | South Africa

Lindokuhle Shabane

Talk

05/04/2023

4:15 pm–5:45 pm

U Bremen GW1 A 0150 & online
Negotiation the Incompatible. A Discourse-Linguistic Praxiography of Queer Liturgic Practice in Germany

Jonas Trochemowitz Comments Fellow: Eva Arnaszus Guest: Prof. Dr. Phillip Dreesen | ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften

Jonas Trochemowitz

Talk

05/04/2023

6:00 pm–7:30 pm

U Bremen GW1 A 0150 & online
Romuva: Creating Paganism through Contradiction

Eva Arnaszus Comments Fellow: Rosa Lütge Guest: Dr. Ulrich Harlass | University of Bremen

Talk

04/27/2023

4:15 pm–5:45 pm

U Bremen GW1 A 0150 & online
Legacies of War. Historical Research on Underwater Munitions

Alex Souchen | University of Guelph

Talk

04/27/2023

6:00 pm–7:30 pm

U Bremen GW1 H 0070 & online
Legal Regulation of Responsibility and Liability in Transnational Textile Supply Chains

Lilli Hasche Guest Comments Prof. Dr. Anna Beckers | Maastricht University Dr. Laura Knöpfel | Basel

Prof. Dr. Anna Beckers (Maastricht University), Dr. Laura Knöpfel & Lilli Hasche (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Talk

04/20/2023

4:15 pm–5:45 pm

U Bremen GW1 A 0150 & online
Beyond in/dependence. Freedom in a World of Contradictions

Samia Mohammed Comments Fellow: Jan Bartsch Guest: Prof. Dr. Francesca Raimondi | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Samia Mohammed

Talk, Internal

04/20/2023

6:00 pm–7:30 pm

U Bremen GW1 A 0150 & online
“Perdre le Nord“: literary subject constructions in the narrative imagined space of the North in French Canadian contemporary literatures from Québec, Acadie and autochtonous territories

Jody Danard (RTG Contradiction Studies), Helen Stephan (RTG Contradiction Studies), Prof.Dr. Karen Struve (University Bremen)

Talk, Internal

01/31/2023

2:30 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

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

l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke

sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka

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

Is contradiction eurocentric?

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