The DFG Graduate Research Programme \;&ldquo\;Normativity\, Critique\, Change&rdquo\; \;(FU Berlin) invites you to our international interdisciplinary conference \;»\;The Power and Norms of Critique«\;\, \;which will take place at \;Uferstudios \;on February 12-13\, 2026. The conference will be preceded by an opening event on February 11. \;
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\nCritical impulses play a central role in the development of society while they are tied\, in their turn\, to the normative frameworks established within social contexts. In this respect\, critique is always in tension with prevailing norms\; however\, it may also depend on normative foundations that can go beyond what is given in a society. Against the background of this tension\, the conference aims to investigate the scope and the (normative) foundations of critique\, focusing on four contexts: firstly\, the narrative foundations of normative critique\, secondly\, the interpersonal forms of relationship relevant to the realization of critique\, thirdly\, physicality and materiality in the \;emergence of resistance and fourthly\, the positionality of critique. \;
\nSpeakers:
Andrea Geier
Martina Bengert \;
Judith-Frederike Popp
Jordan Troeller
Liza Mattutat \;
Anna Lena Gö\;ttsche \;
Quill Kukla \;
Priya S. Gupta \;
Filipa Cé\;sar
Ruth Sonderegger
Thomas Richard Hilder \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
Chris Tedjasukmana