Current news
Research colloquium "Critical NorthWest"
On 16 and 17 January 2025, the research colloquium "Critical NorthWest" took place at the Faculty of Sociology. "Critical NorthWest" is a research colloquium jointly organised by the working groups for Political Theory and History of Ideas at Bielefeld University (Prof. Dr Oliver Flügel-Martinsen), Bremen University (Prof. Dr Martin Nonhoff) and Duisburg-Essen University (Prof. Dr Franziska Martinsen), which has been meeting in Bielefeld since 2023.
During regular two-day meetings, doctoral students' own texts, new publications and texts by classics of political theory are discussed together and there is a guest lecture by an external speaker. The participants also organise a slot in an open, alternating format, e.g. with panel discussions on current topics in political theory. The guest lecture at the January meeting was given by Prof Dr Katrin Meyer, University of Basel/University of Zurich (pictured right) on the topic of "Authoritarian popular sovereignty. The votes on women's suffrage in Switzerland".
NEW PUBLICATION
Saskia Bender - Oliver Flügel-Martinsen - Michaela Vogt (eds.)
Concealments - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Inclusions and Exclusions
More and more frequently, contemporary democratic societies make promises of inclusion without being able to keep them. Concealment as an analytical category makes it possible to examine ambivalences as well as the reasons for and genesis of these relations of inclusion and exclusion. This does not imply a renunciation of inclusion efforts; rather, the examination of concealment is essential for a society that, from a contingency-theoretical perspective, must fail because of its normative semantics. In an approach from Educational Science, Sociology and Political Science, the contributors explore and contour occlusion in an interdisciplinary way.