Veranstaltungen

Was ist „Ostdeutschland“? Wir wollen reden, über einen Raum, der meist als grau, kalt und politisch rechts wahrgenommen wird. Wir wollen diskutieren, wie ostdeutsche Lebenswelten in medialen Darstellungen, politischen Debatten und kulturellen und literarischen Erzählungen konstruiert werden zwischen Selbstbeschreibung und Fremdzuschreibung, zwischen Erinnerung und Gegenwart.

 Im Herbst 2025 wird Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) 10 Jahre alt. Eine Übersicht über das geplante Programm ist auf der WOC Website verfügbar.

Early Career Vernetzungsworkshop im Rahmen von 10 Jahre WOC Contradictions Festivals mit Mitgliedern des WOC Graduiertennetzwerks (WOC GradNet), des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs 2686 Contradiction Studies, der Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) & des Instituts für Sozialforschung (IfS) und des GRK 2638 Normativität, Kritik, Wandel

In this presentation, I engage with the African body that lands on European beaches via the Mediterranean sea, dead by exhaustion from crossing the ocean or dead as a consequence of boarding a vessel, which has capsized because it was not equipped to carry the embodied subject identities of Africans leaving the continent to seek refuge on the European continent: the continent of the European coloniser who had usurped African land and people, kidnapped African labour starting in the fifteenth century whilst simultaneously exploiting and extracting raw materials to develop its wealth in an ailing, starving, and disease infested Europe.

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Tagung „Das geht zu weit!“ der Forschungsgruppe Diskursmonitor. Thematisch werden Sprachlich-kommunikative Strategien der Legitimierung und Delegitimierung von Protest in öffentlichen, medialen und politischen Diskursen behandelt.

The accessibility to health insurance-funded gender-affirming hormone therapy in Germany is of central importance to many trans* people for their health, safety, and life trajectories. However, the decision about whether they can take hormones through the regular care-system is not in their hands but rather depends on various actors and institutions in the medical, psychotherapeutic, and political sectors.

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen des Panels „Migration Debates in Central Europe“ der ASN World Convention statt.

Gespräch in englischer Sprache. In White But Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt (2022) untersucht Ivan Kalmar die politischen und kulturellen Entwicklungen in Zentraleuropa, insbesondere die Entstehung illiberaler Bewegungen in postkommunistischen Gesellschaften wie Tschechien, Polen und Ungarn. Kalmar analysiert, wie historische Erfahrungen, Nationalismus und westliche Einflüsse eine einzigartige Form des Widerstands gegen Liberalismus und Globalisierung […]

As part of the block seminar „Afropolitanism and Afropean: belonging to Europe and The world“, the multifaceted, interdisciplinary, world-renowned Afrospanish artist Agnes Essonti Luque will participate in a discussion on her work and her understanding of the concepts of Afropolitan and Afropean. This talk is scheduled to bring students closer to the reality of multiple […]

Contradictions are omnipresent and the identification of contradictions is usually accompanied by the imperative to resolve them. Contradictions can be ascribed to individual actions as well as to social formations. They extend to all areas of life: political orders, academic settings, religious practices and many more fields that are permeated by them. Without contradictions, there are no pluralities and no truths. Nevertheless, there is a long and powerful (especially European) tradition of problematizing and resolving contradictions and reducing them to logical incompatibility. This tradition of avoiding contradiction is countered by alternative concepts of thinking contradiction, above all in dialectics or paraconsistent logic (Priest/Tanaka [1996]2022). Contradiction Studies take up this reflection and move away from the widespread negative assessment of contradiction (cp. Febel/Knopf/Nonhoff 2023; Lienert 2019; Lossau/Schmidt-Brücken/Warnke 2019; Nintemann/Stroh 2022; Warnke/Hornidge/Schattenberg 2021). In this sense, our conference aims to explore contradictions beyond contradiction.