Contradiction Studies

Semester Recap 🔙

📚Cooperation with the University of the Western Cape on Decentering the Museum and Postcolonial Politics of Memory

RTG “Contradiction Studies” was happy to invite three PhD Students from the University of the Western Cape. The young researchers have been participating in the joint project “Decentering the Museum: Resist! – Repair! – Restitute! – Reimagine!” created by the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen.

Apart from the exciting academic events, the guests from the UWC exchanged their ideas with the other young researchers within the framework of the toolboxes at the Contradiction Studies Research Training Group. The reflection on the different experiences and impressions in colonial institutions is ongoing and continues to raise new questions about continuity and reproduction of epistemic violence as well as the possibilities of collaborative, polyphonic work.

Photos: Amelie Greefe

✍🏻New contribution✍🏻

We are glad to present you a new contribution made by Fiona Makulik, the researcher of RTG “Contradiction Studies”

The article “Zur Ästhetik von Widerspruchspraxen am Beispiel des feministischen Abtreibungsdiskurses in den 1970er Jahren” published in aptum, Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik und Sprachkultur analyses the practices of contradiction with regard to their aesthetic potential. Texts from the feminist abortion discourse are used by the author as the examples.

More info about the publication: https://buske.de/zur-asthetik-von-widerspruchspraxen-am-beispiel-des-feministischen-abtreibungsdiskurses-in-den-1970er-jahren.html?previd=18559

“Politisierung als Delegitimation. Zur anti-genderistischen Darstellung und Lebenswirklichkeit q***r-christlicher Gottesdienste”

A contribution by the RTG member Jonas Trochemowitz published in the collection “Politisierung des Alltags” by the University of Siegen. The article aims to critically examine anti-genderist representations of q***r Christian church services by analyzing social media data and discourse ethnographic field research.

More information about the publication:
https://contradictionstudies.uni-bremen.de/en/publications/politisierung-als-delegitimation-zur-anti-genderistischen-darstellung-und-lebenswirklichkeit-q***r-christlicher-gottesdienste-2/

https://www.universi.uni-siegen.de/katalog/einzelpublikationen/1034606.html?lang=

LIVING ARCHIVES: GESCHICHTE UND GEGENWART INTERSEKRIONAL-FEMINISTISCHER BEWEGUNGEN IN THEORIE UND PRAXIS

Recap of two exciting, interesting and inspiring days of the conference ➡️

The organizing team thanks all the guests and participants!

📝SAVE THE DATE
 
The programme of “Living Archives” conference is now out and availiable via this link: https://contradictionstudies.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/Living-Archives_AUDIENCE-PROGRAMME_20240605-1.pdf 
 
The conference is dedicated to the overdue appreciation of the history of intersectional feminisms in German-speaking contexts (and their transnational connections). Panels will be in German spoken language, while the keynote by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez will be held in English spoken language with simultaneous translation to German spoken language.
 
🗓️When? 27-28th of June 
📍Where? Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstraße 4-5, Bremen and online (link included in programme)
No registration required!
 
🔗For more information, please visit our homepage https://contradictionstudies.uni-bremen.de/events/konferenz/living-archives/

Tomorrow July 12 from 1:30-2:15 pm Nils Kohlmeier, Fiona Makulik, Anna Mattfeldt, Jonas Trochemowitz & Ingo H. Warnke from the RTG will discuss the Question of the (Linguistic) Construction of Contradictions:

Contradiction Studies DFG Graduiertenkolleg 2686 Universität Bremen

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Frieder Vogelmann from the University of Freiburg on Thursday, 6.7.23 at 6 pm with the talk "No Contradiction: True and Effective Knowledge":

Contradiction Studies Research Training Group 2686 University Bremen

Deborah Nyangulu has guest edited a special issue dedicated to Namwali Serpell's novel, The Old Drift, in the journal Research in African Literatures with Indiana University Press. The special issue features articles from a range of global scholars including an Introduction by Nyangulu. Nyangulu also brings Serpell and critical theorist Homi Bhabha in conversation to discuss the state of the planet. You can read the special issue here:

Project MUSE - Research in African Literatures-Volume 53, Number 3, Fall 2022 Research in African Literatures, the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide, serves as a stimulating vehicle in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa. Reviews of current scholarly books are included in every number, and a forum offers readers the opportuni...

Please join our fellow Nelson Sindze Wembe who will discuss barriers in academia in a panel discussion tomorrow at 1 pm in the BIGSSS conference room along with Sonja Drobnic, Dora Simunovic, and Lisa Spanka:

Contradiction Studies DFG Graduiertenkolleg 2686 Universität Bremen

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Philipp Goll (Department of Media Studies, University of Siegen) as our guest in the public part of our regular colloquium today at 6 pm. He will give a talk titled "How to Research Indigenous Resistance Against Extractivism in Siberia in a Non-Extractivist Mode?". The talk will take place at Grazer Straße 2 in room 0030. Online participation is also possible, please send your registration to [email protected]