Dear students of Philosophy,

On 26 November 2025, all students of the subjects Philosophy and Values and Norms are invited to this year's general student council meeting in room A01 0-009 from 6 pm. The new Student council will also be elected at this meeting. The Student council has the task of representing the interests of students vis-à-vis the university, providing student counselling and initiating networking among students. Anyone who is enrolled on one of the 7 philosophy degree programmes in Oldenburg can be elected to the Student Council, regardless of their semester, previous knowledge, capacities or skills.

If you would like to be elected to the Student Council, please send us an) by 25 November so that we can plan the election. Please bring or send us a current enrolment certificate to check your active and passive voting rights. You can download it as a certificate from StudIP with just a few clicks (system-related until 24.11.25), - we will be happy to help you if necessary! It is possible to stand for election in absentia. A short written introduction with motivation is helpful in this case.

Agenda:

1. welcome

2. report of the old Student council

3. election of the new Student council

4. miscellaneous

Best regards,

The Student council Philosophy, Oldenburg 07.11.2025

Dear first semester students,

Our programme for this year's orientation week is now online. We look forward to welcoming you to the games evening, the freshers' breakfast, several timetable and StudIP help sessions, the pub evening, the walk to the Karl Jaspers House, the flunkeyball evening and the workshop on 'Why should a teacher (not) be authentic?

Best regards, --

Ronja, Marina and Niklas

This semester, somewhat belatedly but with no less pleasure, we are once again presenting a small selection of films.
As always, there is a discussion after each film, to which everyone is cordially invited.
Admission is free for students.

This time, the series is financially supported by the AStA, SchwuRef, KulturTicket and the Institute of Philosophy. It is also supported by Unikino Gegenlicht, which will show three films in July.

All other screenings will take place at CineK on Tuesdays at 6.30 pm.

Georg Lukács' work History and Class Consciousness (1923) is rightly regarded as the founding document of what later became known as Hegelian Marxism. In it, Lukács attempts to defend Marxist theory against its flattening in official party Marxism by recourse to Hegel. "Orthodoxy in questions of Marxism" does not mean a belief in certain theses or holy books, but refers "exclusively to the method". However, the "essence of method", which Marx "took over from Hegel and originally remodelled to form the basis of a completely new science", was the "category of totality, the all-round, determining dominance of the whole over the parts". Lukács thus also provided Adorno with the decisive keyword for his variant of critical theory.
The lecture outlines the way in which "the category of totality" comes into play in Hegel's philosophy, Marx's theory of capital and Adorno's negative dialectics and asks whether and to what extent the totalising character of these theories can be justified in each case.

PD. Dr Frank Kuhne is a lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy at Leibniz Universität Hannover. His research areas are classical German philosophy, critical theory and Marxian theory. He studied philosophy, political science and German studies in Hanover and Braunschweig and received his doctorate with a thesis on Marx and his habilitation with a thesis on self-consciousness in Kant and Fichte. In 2022, he published the monograph "Marx and Kant. The normative foundations of capital".

An event organised by the Institute of Philosophy in co-operation with the Karl-Jaspers-Haus and the student body of Philosophy.

Monday, 28 April 2025, 18:00 c.t. | Karl-Jaspers-Haus (Unter den Eichen 22)

Much, perhaps everything, has been said about so-called 'French theory' from the perspective of critical theory - often polemical, sometimes even clairvoyant. While the relationship was initially characterised by mutual ignorance, today, when the intellectual zenith of post-structuralism has long since passed, it seems that it is almost impossible to refrain from taking a position. To take up a metaphor from Deleuze and Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus", the 'discourse' resembles the psychological model of the double bind. There are only two contradictory options for action: either practising abstract negation and subjecting postmodern philosophy to a devastating critique without seriously wanting to understand it, or falling into egalitarianism and subsuming Parisian and Frankfurt thinking under the indiscriminate umbrella term 'critical theory'. Both paths lead astray. On the other hand, what Adorno understood by Hegel's concept of definite negation should be upheld: a mode of critique that takes its object seriously and at the same time reflects on its social conditions of possibility. In the case of French theory, this is particularly obvious, not only because its background of experience is the same - economic crises, world wars, fascism - but also because it shares an interest in knowledge with the Institute for Social Research.

It is therefore fitting that the second excursus of the "Dialectic of Enlightenment", entitled "Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality", has a counterpart in the writings of Jacques Lacan. 15 years after Horkheimer and Adorno confronted Kant's transcendental philosophy with the prose of the Marquis de Sade, the psychoanalyst devoted himself to the same constellation without any knowledge of their previous work. The initially associative discussion in his seminars culminated in the écrit "Kant avec Sade", published in 1963, which is now regarded as a key text in his theory. The common subject matter of their investigations offers the rare opportunity to bring Adorno, Horkheimer and Lacan into dialogue with each other. In doing so, they follow the same intuition, namely that de Sade's violent excesses would bring a latent truth of Kantian reason to consciousness. However, their answers to the question of what exactly this truth consists of differ widely; they provide information about the relationship between their forms of thought as a whole.

Hanno Hinrichs studies philosophy and history. He specialises in German idealism, critical theory and the history and theory of the gay movement.

The lecture will take place on 19.02.2025 at 19:00 in room A01 0-004

Organised by the Student council Philosophy

Dear students of Philosophy,

On 27 November 2024 at 6 pm in room A01 0-005, all students of the subjects Philosophy and Values and Norms are invited to this year's general student council meeting . The new Student council will also be elected at this meeting. The Student council has the task of representing the interests of the students towards the university. If you would like to be elected to the Student council, please send us an) by 24 November so that we can plan the election. Please bring or send us a current enrolment certificate to check your right to vote and stand for election. It is possible to stand for election in absentia. A short written introduction with motivation is helpful in this case.

Agenda:

1. welcome

2. report of the old Student council

3. election of the new Student council

4. miscellaneous

Best regards,

The Student council Philosophy

What is meant by general education changes in public opinion every day. At the traditional grammar school, this fact seems to bounce off the walls; after all, the title 'general education school' is unchallenged and the curricula are only changed very hesitantly. Nevertheless, even there you will get different answers, from teachers and pupils alike: Is tax returns, basic knowledge of human psychology, environmental awareness, poetry or stock market analysis part of the general education curriculum?

In a joint discussion, we can use the problem of general education to try to develop the outlines of an (in)meaningful critique of the education system and, if interested, address some questions such as the following:

What role does general education play in teacher education programmes?
What are the major positions on general education in classical philosophy? What is involved in the concept of general education and why is there still no getting round it?

Non-first-year students are also welcome.

Enrolment is not necessary.

Dear students of Philosophy,

On 17 November from 4-6 p.m. in room A01 0-007, all students of the subjects Philosophy and Values and Norms are invited to this year's general student council meeting. The new Student council will also be elected at this meeting. The Student council has the task of representing the interests of the students towards the university. If you would like to be elected to the Student council, please send us an) by 14 November so that we can plan the election. Please bring or send us a current enrolment certificate to check your right to vote and stand for election. It is possible to stand for election in absentia. A short written introduction with motivation is helpful in this case.

Agenda:

1. welcome

2. report of the old Student council

3. election of the new Student council

4. miscellaneous

Best regards,

The Student council Philosophy

We are pleased to be able to present a small selection of films again this semester.
As always, there will be a discussion after each film, to which everyone is cordially invited. Admission is free for students.

We would like to thank the AStA, the F3V and the Institute of Philosophy for their financial support.

The screenings take place on Tuesdays at 6.30 pm in the CineK.

ATTENTION: For the first date in the O-week (10 October), the start will be postponed to 7 pm.

Dear first-year philosophy students,

We are pleased to invite you to the following programme for the O-Week this semester:

Tuesday 10 October

14:00-16:00, Campus tour
Meeting point: Student council(M 0-035), M building, subway
We will go for a walk in groups on the Haarentor campus. There will be information about buildings and institutions as well as opportunities for questions and discussions.

18:30, [!Änderung!] 19.00 Philosophy and film: Don't Worry Darling
Meeting point: CineK, Bahnhofstraße 11 in Oldenburg
We will watch the film "Don't Worry Darling" by Olivia Wilde and then discuss impressions, the subject of the film and the aesthetic realisation in the foyer. Admission is free for students. Reservations and information about the film can be found at www.cine-k.de

Wednesday, 11 October

14:00-15:00, Presentation of the Student Council
Meeting point: A01, Room 0-007
The Student Council presents the student and academic self-administration. The focus here is on the work and self-image of the current Student Council.

15:00-17:00, timetable help
Meeting point: A01, room 0-007
In a 1-to-1 consultation, questions about the timetable and all aspects of studying can be asked here.

From 19:00, pub evening
Meeting point: Marvins, Rosenstraße 6 in Oldenburg

Registration is not necessary for any of the events - just come along!

You can find more information about events during the O-Week and tips for starting your studies on the central O-Week homepage.

We look forward to seeing you!

the FSR Philosophy

A warm invitation to the student summer party on the roof terrace of the canteen building

We want to celebrate with you from 18.30 on Wednesday 12 July. The FS Philosophy has prepared the roof terrace of the Asta for you and provided plenty of cold drinks, beer and snacks. Everything for a donation.

Come in large numbers and in a good mood. Please let us know on Instagram or by email (fsphilo@uol.de) by 12 noon on Tuesday if you would like to come.

Directions: In the canteen building, turn right at the back into the AStA wing.

Since November 2022, we have been reading Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" together. As we are now starting a new section, we would like to invite you to join us again. We start with the section on transcendental logic

The reading group is intended for students who are studying philosophy but have not yet had any direct reading experience with Kant. The reading group is also initiated by newcomers to Kant. This means that the aim is to familiarise oneself with the text for the first time. Those who already have more experience with Kant are of course also welcome.

The reading group takes place every fortnight. Please contact us if you have any questions!

We are pleased to be able to present a small selection of films again this semester.
As always, there will be a discussion after each film, to which everyone is cordially invited. Admission is free for students.

We would like to thank the AStA, the F3V and the Institute of Philosophy for their financial support.

The screenings take place on Tuesdays at 6.30 pm in the CineK.

Occasion: On 07.02.23 at 18:30, the cinek will be showing the cinema play "Ich klage an" from
1941 by Wolfgang Liebeneiner in co-operation with the student body of philosophy
as part of the ongoing series "Philosophy and Film". Ich klage an" is a
reserved film by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation on the subject of euthanasia. This workshop is offered in order to ensure
critical support, among other things. However,
is not only aimed at cinema-goers, but at anyone interested in the topic of euthanasia.

Workshop: The workshop will take a critical look at both the possibilities of argumentative and aesthetic
continuity in the cinematic treatment of the topic, but without
equating the political systems through this comparison. In Robert
Spaemann's "Vom guten Sterben" (On Dying Well), the following is said about "Ich klage an": "The film is not
cruel at all, but sentimental, and it works with the same rhetoric that can currently be seen - unintentionally, of course
- among proponents of physician-assisted suicide. In this
film too, a doctor 'wrestles' with the question of whether he should allow his wife a 'dignified death'. He
acts solely out of love and demands that the legal system does not stand in the way of progress
and does not allow people to suffer agonisingly. As is well known, the Nazis did not 'invent'
euthanasia, but it was psychiatrists and
lawyers at the beginning of the 1920s who were concerned about 'public health' and recommended that the disabled and
other suffering people be given a 'good death'."
In order to allow a contemporary comparison, the popular success "Ein
ganzes halbes Jahr" is used here. Individual sections of the film with argumentative
weight will be analysed.
Last but not least, the historical and legal development
will be traced in the workshop and ultimately the current legal situation will be addressed. According to
the judgement of the second University Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court announced on 26 February 2020,
medical criteria no longer need to be cited for physician-assisted suicide. The expression of will is sufficient
. For this reason, care facilities are currently discussing
whether they wish to admit physician-assisted suicide.
However, the workshop should also enable participants to categorise the direction of ethical discussions
. Here, for example, the focus should be on the question of whether a
consistently conceived right to euthanasia is compatible with the right to self-determination.

We have been able to secure the cooperation of Dr Christine Zunke from the "Research Centre for
Critical Natural Philosophy". She will lead the workshop.

The workshop is supported by the Research Centre for Critical Natural Philosophy and the
autonomous disability department of the CvO University of Oldenburg.

If you are interested, please register at fs.philosophie@uni-oldenburg.de

Dear students,

on 25 January from 14.30-15.30 in the student body room (M 0-035) the general assembly of the Philosophy student body will take place, to which all students of the subject Philosophy are invited. In particular, it is about the by-election of the Student council, which more fellow students would like to join. The Student council has the task of representing the interests of the students towards the university. If you are interested in joining the student council, please contact us (fsphilo@uol.de). It is possible to be elected in absentia. A current enrolment certificate must be brought along or sent to us. In case of absence, a short written introduction with motivation is helpful.

Agenda:
1. welcome
2. report of the Student council
3. by-election
4. miscellaneous

Best regards
Student council Philosophy

Peter Bulthaup, a student of Adorno and Horkheimer and Professor of Philosophy in Hanover from 1975-2004, gave his inaugural lecture entitled "Critical Science and Criticism of Science" at the TU Hanover on 13 May 1976. According to an anecdote, Oskar Negt accused him at the time of representing the Jehovah's Witnesses' concept of truth.

Bulthaup's point in the lecture is that the appropriate theoretical form of criticism is indeed dialectical, but that dialectics, understood as materialistic, does not abolish the distinction between true and false. Rather, it is about not merely formally justifying the objectivity of scientific truth, but also including the historical conditions of scientific truth. However, this does not result in relativism, but in the finding that objective truth and the historical (political-social) purposes of a science are in conflict in its knowledge of the subject: They are mutually dependent and at the same time mutually exclusive. From this, political tasks can also be derived for supposedly value-neutral sciences.

In the workshop, the inaugural lecture will be read and discussed further together. Prior registration by email to michael.heidemann[at]uni-oldenburg.de is not necessary, but welcome. The text will be made available by email and at the beginning of the workshop, but can also be purchased as a book at michael.heidemann[at]uni-oldenburg.de. The text will be read from: Bulthaup, Peter. The Law of Liberation and other texts. Edited by the Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Institut Hannover. zu Klampen, 1998.

In the first workshop, the first three pages of the text were read. After a short repetition, we continue on page 22 of the above-mentioned edition.

Funded by the Institute of Philosophy.

From 10 November, the Student council for Philosophy is organising a reading group on Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason", a classic of philosophy and the basis for understanding many of the thinkers who followed him.
The reading group is intended for students who are studying philosophy but have not yet had any direct reading experience with Kant. The reading group is also initiated by newcomers to Kant. This means that the aim is to familiarise yourself with the text for the first time. Those who already have more experience with Kant are of course also welcome.

The reading group takes place every fortnight, in room A05 0-055 from 6 - 8 pm. It starts on 10 November.

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Peter Bulthaup, a student of Adorno and Horkheimer and Professor of Philosophy in Hanover from 1975-2004, gave his inaugural lecture entitled "Critical Science and Criticism of Science" at the TU Hanover on 13 May 1976. According to an anecdote, Oskar Negt accused him at the time of representing the Jehovah's Witnesses' concept of truth.

Bulthaup's point in the lecture is that the appropriate theoretical form of criticism is indeed dialectical, but that dialectics, understood as materialistic, does not abolish the distinction between true and false. Rather, it is a matter of not merely formally justifying the objectivity of scientific truth, but also including the historical conditions of scientific truth. However, this does not result in relativism, but in the finding that objective truth and the historical (political-social) purposes of a science are in conflict in its knowledge of the subject: They are mutually dependent and at the same time mutually exclusive. From this, political tasks can also be derived for supposedly value-neutral sciences.

In the workshop, the inaugural lecture will be read and discussed together. Prior registration by email to michael.heidemann[at]uni-oldenburg.de is not necessary, but welcome. The text will be made available by email and at the beginning of the workshop.

Funded by the Adorno Research Centre.

"what is at stake?

In terms of their complexity, scale and scope, the dangers of climate change dwarf other social problems of our time. The dynamics of global warming require urgent action. Otherwise we will reach a point of no return, beyond which (expected) tipping points and feedback effects of the climate system will make human intervention against further global warming impossible. However, 55 years after the development of the first global climate model, 50 years after the first environmental conference in Stockholm and 25 years after the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, the question arises as to whether existing society is ultimately capable of coping with such a task. Given the omnipresence of the issue in both the private and political spheres, the extent of global protest movements and the existence of binding multilateral resolutions on climate protection, how can the steady rise in annual global emissions be explained? In view of this global failure, can we speak of the systemic nature of climate change?

The congress "Climate Change and Social Criticism" organised by the AStA, the Research Centre for Critical Natural Philosophy Oldenburg and the Rosa Salon will get to the bottom of this question over three days at the University of Oldenburg. The congress will include 13 panels with different focuses, more than 30 lectures, several panel discussions, a workshop, a book presentation and a cultural programme. In addition to established researchers, politicians, journalists, activists and numerous young scientists are also involved in the events."

klimakongressoldenburg.de/

The series of events will take place between November 2021 and May 2022 and is organised by the Arbeitskreis Erinnerung der Großregion, the AStA Oldenburg, the Initiative Interdisziplinäre Antisemitismusforschung Trier, the Referat für Antirassismus und Antifaschismus Trier and the Rosa Salon in cooperation with the AStA Trier, the Bündnis gegen Antisemitismus Köln, Demokratie und Information (DEIN e. V.) and the Veranstaltungen zur Ideologiekritik Münster. The series of events is funded by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry for Family Affairs, Women, Culture and Integration as part of the "Together for Equality" programme. The lecture is sponsored by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Rhineland-Palatinate.

All information at: linktr.ee/erinnern2021

All events in the series at a glance:

9 November 2021
The core of the Holocaust: Belzec, Sobibór, Treblinka and the "Aktion Reinhardt"
Speaker: Prof. Dr Stephan Lehnstaedt
Moderator: Volker Beck

23 November 2021
Normality and mass murder. On the social psychology of Nazi perpetrators
Speaker: Prof Dr Rolf Pohl
Moderator: Prof Dr Julia König

7 December 2021
The Holocaust as an open secret
Speaker: Felix Berge
Moderator: Andreas Borsch

6 January 2022
Not a state, but the rule of competing power groups.
Franz L. Neumann's materialist analysis of National Socialism in "Behemoth"
Advisor: Dr Felix Sassmannshausen
Moderation: Jonas Erulo and Sebastian Gräber

18 January 2022
Gender and Genocide: Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust
Advisor: Dr Marta Havryshko
Moderation: Dr Oren Osterer

25 January 2022
Occupied Europe 1939-1945.
Reflections on occupation, colonial rule, racism and violence
Advisor: Prof. Dr Tatjana Tönsmeyer
Moderator: Matheus Hagedorny

8 February 2022 February 2022
Historical Interpretations of German Guilt - Beginnings and Basic Questions of Nazi and Holocaust Research in the Federal Republic
Speaker: Dr Nicolas Berg
Moderation: Dr Ralf Balke

16 February 2022
The Uniqueness of the Holocaust
Speaker: Prof. Dr Steven T. Katz
Moderation: Prof. Dr Günther Jikeli

22 February 2022
The 'Jewish Enemy' in Nazi
Propaganda during World War
II and the Holocaust
Speaker: Prof Dr Jeffrey Herf
Moderation: Dr. Anja Thiele

2 March 2022
Holocaust: Knowledge and Memory
Advisor: PD Dr. Jan Gerber
Moderator: Anastasia Tikhomirova

15 March 2022
Holocaust and Memory Conflicts in Eastern Europe
Advisor: PD Dr. Ljiljana Radonić
Moderator: Alex Feuerherdt

29 March 2022
Parceled out memory:
Narcissistic moments in the
German memorial landscape
Advisor: Felicitas Kübler
Moderator: Dr Nikolas Lelle 12 March 2022 Nikolas Lelle

12 April 2022
Postcolonial interpretations of the Holocaust
Speaker: Dr Steffen Klävers
Moderation: Katrin Henkelmann

26 April 2022
From Pretoria and Windhoek
to Auschwitz?
On possible continuities
between colonial and
National Socialist violence
Speaker: PD Dr Jonas Kreienbaum
Moderation: Dr Jakob Zollmann

10 May 2022 May 2022
Why racism theories fail to explain anti-Semitism
Speaker: Micha Keiten
Moderation: Ronja Rossmann

24 May 2022
Hannah Arendt's image of the Holocaust and its postcolonial heirs
Speaker: PD Dr Ingo Elbe
Moderation: Jakob Hoffmann

Further information:

23 February 2022, 7 p.m., online: zoom.us/j/94478058139 and via the Rosa Salon YouTube channel
On the relationship between critical theory and the critique of politics with Luise Henckel

CANCELLED, 30 March, 7 pm, ev. at the University of Oldenburg, Haarentor campus, A14 - lecture hall 3 (maximum 44 listeners) and in any case via livestream [link to follow]
Die kulturelle Dominante des Spätkapitalismus - Zur Kritik der Postmoderne with Kolja Witt

27 October 2021, 7 pm
"Something is missing..." - On the loss of social design concepts in late modernity with Alexandra Schauer

24 November 2021, 7 p.m., to listen in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gcs9H-DIq8
Contradictory education - On the relationship between object and domination, progression and regression with Simon Helling

15 December 2021 [catch-up date], 7 p.m.
Phantasmagoria and mental image - On Walter Benjamin's "Bucklicht Männlein" with Ulrich Mathias Gerr

All lectures can be listened to one after the other at Rosasalon: www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9YP2seTsOGI66gbtKBAaw

Dear students of philosophy,

The Student council of the philosophy student body invites all philosophy students to this year's general assembly on Monday, 22 November 2020 at 12:00 noon. For known reasons, this will not take place on site, but will have to be held online via BigBlueButton.
Participation is possible via the following link: meeting.uol.de/b/enr-1yl-viz-til

Among other things, elections for the Student council will take place during this AGM. The statutes and election regulations of the student body apply to candidacies.

The agenda provides for

1. Elections to the Student council
2. Other matters

It is not necessary to register for the AGM.

Here you can find information about the O-Week 2021.

We are very pleased that we can now make up for most of the films planned for last winter semester in our "Philosophy and Film" series. As always, we will be showing the films on Tuesdays at Cine k, but now at 8pm.

17.08.: Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, USA 2006)
24.08.: The Revolutionary (Paul Williams, USA 1970)
31.08.: 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I 1975)
07.09.: The Moon Conspiracy (Thomas Frickel, D 2011)
followed by a discussion with director Thomas Frickel
14.09.: The Foreign Legionnaire (Claire Denis, F 1999)
21.09.: Army in the Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, F 1969)
28.09.: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, D 1974)

As always, admission is free for all students. Registration is also preferable via the order form linked on the Cine k website. You can book 0-euro tickets there.

Further information:

27 January
Historicity and Revolution. On changing practice with Herbert Marcuse with Jan Rickermann

24 February
Competence-oriented education or: self-administration of the damaged life with Steffen Stolzenberger
The lecture can be listened to here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SWS29mQRJE

31 March
Bedingungen der Unbedingtheit - Bestimmungen zur Genese der Subjektivität in der "Dialektik der Aufklärung" with Johannes Bruns
the lecture can be listened to here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCIFjRvgVbg

28 April
1923 - Dialectics, metaphysics and profane transcendence in Bloch, Benjamin and Lukács with Lea L. Fink

26 May
The political economy of the administered world or the reality of the primacy of politics with Enrico Pfau
The lecture can be listened to here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wSY1_uVjw

30 June, 7 pm at: zoom.us/j/97412710905
And can be streamed here from the start: www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9YP2seTsOGI66gbtKBAaw
Critique or Destruction? The subject in Butler, Derrida and Foucault with Carolyn Iselt

Kant's transcendental subject has been and continues to be frequently criticised. However, a distinction must be made as to whether, in the course of this criticism, the essentials of the subject - such as spontaneity in thought and autonomy - are maintained or not. A distinction must therefore be made between critique and destruction of the subject. Criticism of the fundamental post-structuralist critique of the transcendental subject is countered, for example, by the argument that those criticised have themselves developed a concept of subjectivation. The subject of the lecture is therefore to examine whether a process of subjectivation still represents a critique of the transcendental subject or whether it destroys it. If the latter is the case, it must be asked whether the self-conscious act of destruction does not contradict itself.

"Popular culture is omnipresent. It takes up and depicts current social debates. It also offers the opportunity to process historical events retrospectively or to romanticise them ideologically.

Anti-Semitism is also a topic in pop cultural products and practices of youth culture and subculture. Series, films and video games address National Socialism and its anti-Semitism of extermination in different ways and can thus simultaneously contribute to the removal of taboos or trivialisation of the Shoah, which takes place in fashion, language, music and visual culture.

An ambivalent role of pop culture thus becomes apparent: it can behave subversively towards resentments that are capable of gaining majority support. However, neo-fascist or conspiracy ideological movements also use connectable pop cultural forms of protest and memes to spread their ideology, and youth cultural phenomena such as German rap prove to be extremely connectable for anti-Semites of various colours. The current positioning of various cultural institutions in the context of the debate on how to deal with the anti-Semitic BDS campaign, which for its part is also pushing for a boycott of Israel in the cultural sphere, points to the worrying overlap between Israel-related anti-Semitism and (pop) culture.

The task of resolutely countering anti-Semitism in its various manifestations arises not least in educational work in and outside of schools. First of all, this requires being able to recognise it in the first place when it is expressed in pop cultural products. Since ideological elements and explanatory patterns are often not expressed directly, but in images, certain terms and discourses that sometimes seem hermetic to outsiders, categorising them is also a challenge for educators.

In our online lecture and workshop series, we would like to approach the topic of anti-Semitism and pop culture and engage in a debate with all interested parties on how to counter everyday resentment. We will deal with various aspects of the topic that are particularly relevant in the area of school and extracurricular work with young people. The lectures and workshops will be supplemented by two workshop dates, in which we would like to deepen concrete pedagogical approaches to the topics discussed with the involvement of the participants.

The series of events is aimed in particular at teachers, multipliers, political educators, professionals in social work and related fields as well as students.

Registration is required to take part; simply send an informal email to . We will then send you the link to the online conference before the event."

rabulo.de/neue-online-reihe-populaerkultur-und-antisemitismus-erscheinungsformen-und-perspektiven-fuer-die-bildungsarbeit/

In the anti-Semitic distorted image of the lustful Jew, who represents a danger to the woman integrated into the body of the people due to his unbridled libidinous nature, the significance of gender relations for anti-Semitic thinking becomes clear. How topical this [read more].

Dear fellow students, especially first-year students,

The orientation week for the 'hybrid semester' is approaching and we as a student body have also planned some events for you. You can find our O-Week programme below. We would also like to draw your attention to the "Philosophy & Film" cinema series, which takes place regularly beyond the O-Week and whose programme is also listed below.

As a general rule, you can contact us at any time if you have problems with your studies, with lecturers or the administration, if you have questions about study or examination regulations, or if you have suggestions or criticism. We are also happy to welcome new members for our student council work. The best way to contact us is via our e-mail address

If you don't have time to take part in our campus tour or the online timetable consultation on the dates given, you are also welcome to contact us by email if you have any questions. The so-called 'hybrid semester' is associated with many disadvantages for students, first and foremost, of course, the currently inadequate teaching. However, don't be too quick to reduce your demands, but exercise your rights and have the courage to address any grievances - especially violations of the examination regulations - or report them to us. We will then endeavour to find prompt solutions in your interest.

As the student body for Philosophy, we have been campaigning for years for the most self-determined and critical studies possible, in which education for its own sake takes precedence over the training necessary for the labour market. Anyone interested in the theoretical background to this distinction is cordially invited to our online reading group on Max Horkheimer's speech "Academic Studies", with which he welcomed the first semester students at the University of Frankfurt in 1952.

Despite the atypical study conditions at the moment, we wish you a successful start to the winter semester and hope to be able to offer you an appealing programme for the O-Week.

Your student body Philosophy

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Our programme for the O-Week

Dear friends of philosophical cinema,

we are pleased to inform you that our cinema series can finally start next Wednesday (22 July) at 8 pm! The Cine k has recently reopened under conditions. Due to Corona, we have made some adjustments to the programme and have deviated from our usual weekday. This summer we are presenting the six films in a two-week rhythm on Wednesdays at 8 pm. You will be informed about the other dates and film titles as soon as possible.

The subsequent discussion, which is so important for our series, will take place in the cinema auditorium. Not all seats can be taken, as the minimum distances must be observed. In concrete terms, this means that our ticket contingent is limited to approx. 20-25 seats. If you would like to attend, please reserve your tickets using the usual online form at Cine k . As always, admission is free for students. We hope to be able to hold stimulating discussions about the films with you even under these unusual conditions.

Our series begins with a film that is generally regarded as a classic of arthouse cinema: "The Draughtsman's Contract" by Peter Greenaway. In 17th century England, the landscape artist Mr Neville receives a commission from the noblewoman Mrs Herbert: in the absence of her husband, the sought-after artist is to produce twelve drawings of his manor, Compton Anstey. Neville agrees, but demands not only gold but also sexual favours from Mrs Herbert in return for his services. Private power games soon unfold at the country estate, while strange clues find their way into Neville's paintings that seem to point to a serious crime.

Greenaway's film does not make it easy for the audience, as it confronts them with a wealth of (art) historical quotations, hidden clues and convoluted dialogue. It could be the subject of discussion whether there is something substantial hidden behind the postmodern arrangement of the crime story - such as a reflection on the relationship between painting and film images - or whether the film does not rather make the reference of the reference and thus the dissolution of classical (genre) themes its own content.

Until then!
Your student body Philosophy

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last film in summer term 2020:

Wed 30 Oct, 8pm: Der Untertan (Wolfgang Staudte, GDR 1951)

We are pleased to be able to present a small selection of films again this semester. As always, a discussion is planned after each film, to which every visitor can join. We hope you like our programme and that we can welcome you in large numbers.

We would like to thank the F3V, the AStA, the SchwuRef and the Institute of Philosophy for their financial support.

The screenings will take place at CineK .

In criticism of Adorno's aesthetics of the work, I will attempt to develop a theoretical framework in which Adorno's aesthetics and the reception studies that have been pushed by cultural studies in particular can be cancelled out. The proposal is aimed at a theory of "aesthetic action" which, unlike Adorno's, is based on the culture industry and not on the work of art. What emerges is an aesthetics that subverts the opposition between the aesthetics of the work and the aesthetics of reception in a more comprehensive aesthetics of interaction. It is also an aesthetic theory that can be applied to the broad spectrum of media and genres and is not - like most previous aesthetics - unilaterally based on experiences with Greek sculpture or classical or contemporary literature or theatre or the panel paintings in museums or (as with Adorno) contemporary music. Adorno's strict work aesthetics meant that he was unable to recognise Dadaist and Surrealist forms of resistance, that he diagnosed in jazz and action art only a proliferation of what was produced by the culture industry. With the culture industry as a starting point, to which "autonomous" art has long since been subjected, it is possible to ask about resistance in the culture industry.

Further information:

uol.de/adorno-forschungsstelle/veranstaltungen/termin?tx_cal_controller%5Bday%5D=31&tx_cal_controller%5Bmonth%5D=1&tx_cal_controller%5Btype%5D=tx_cal_phpicalendar&tx_cal_controller%5Buid%5D=6610&tx_cal_controller%5Bview%5D=event&tx_cal_controller%5Byear%5D=2020&cHash=4655e973cd11d053dac275dd8c4f2762

From 27 - 31 January 2020, various events on the topic of anti-Semitism will take place as part of the Anti-Semitism Theme Week.

27.01. Film screening Shoah by Claude Lanzmann
12:00 - 20:00 V03 0-E003
www.facebook.com/events/1178952819114539/

28 Jan. It's not systemic- Antisemitism in academic anti-racism. Lecture & discussion with Ingo Elbe
18:30 - 20:30 A01 0-005
www.facebook.com/events/175654330479773/

29.01. On guilt and defence. Why knowing about the Nazi past does not help against anti-Semitism.
Workshop with Olaf Kistenmacher
14:00 - 18:00 V03 0-D001
www.facebook.com/events/154899409141780/

30.01. "Nakba", "apartheid state", "child murderer" On anti-Israeli myths in the past and present.
Lecture and discussion with Alex Feuerherdt
16:00 - 18:00 A01 0-010a
www.facebook.com/events/187130832479020/

31.01. Antisemitism in German rap
Lecture and discussion with Konstantin Nowotny
19:00 - 21:00 A01 0-006
www.facebook.com/events/170463337390944/

organised by the AStA

Series of lectures by the Adorno Research Centre

Theodor W. Adorno died in the summer of 1969. The 50th anniversary of his death in 2019 is the occasion for a series of lectures dedicated to the philosophical and political relevance of his work. The contributors to the series of lectures will not so much ask what can still be done with Adorno today, but rather attempt to determine how the present day can be understood through Adorno's work. In the summer semester 2019 and winter semester 2019/20, the series of lectures will present the perspectives developed and research projects carried out at the Adorno Research Centre and welcome guests from Germany and abroad who have made significant contributions to Adorno research.

Here you can find the current programme for winter semester 19/20.

One-day seminar with Marlis Stein and Ingo Elbe

Nationalism - that sounds like xenophobia, conservative, right-wing and violent. But do you have to have something against foreigners to be a nationalist? Do you have to glorify the history of your own country? Do you have to feel pride for your own nation? Is it enough to be proud of not being proud? Can there perhaps also be a progressive, left-wing nationalism? In the workshop "How do you become a nationalist?", we want to approach the topic of nationalism from a scientific perspective. In addition to a fundamental analysis of what nationalism actually means and what explanations there are for it, the functions of authoritarian affects in nationalism and the relationship of nationalism to anti-Semitism will also be addressed.

Marlis Stein completed her Master's degree in Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg in summer 2019. She specialised in the criticism of capitalism and nationalism and wrote her Master's thesis on the relationship between nationalism and democracy.
Ingo Elbe is a private lecturer and research associate at the University of Oldenburg. He has written numerous articles on the topics of nationalism and anti-Semitism. Publications can be found at: uol.de/philosophie/pd-dr-ingo-elbe/publikationen/

Overview of seminar texts and registration at finja.krueger@asta-oldenburg.de

Sat. 19 October 2019, 10 am to 4 pm

Location: University of Oldenburg, Room A01 0-007

www.facebook.com/events/797772013972518/

CRITICAL THEORY TODAY. Workshop series of the Adorno Research Centre at the University of Oldenburg

Critical theory lives from its constant reflection on the social present that has become historical. The contemporary core with which it provides its concept of truth forces it to examine its central concepts and theorems with regard to their explanatory potential and to constantly realign them with regard to their objects. The aim of the workshop series CRITICAL THEORY TODAY is to discuss classic texts of critical theory and more recent research in order to determine what the contribution of critical theory to philosophy and social theory is today. Previous guests have included Ruth Sonderegger, Robin Celikates, Marc Nikolas Sommer and Michael Städtler.

Organisation: Dr Maxi Berger and Dr Philip Hogh

Philosophy of history and social criticism
Workshop with Dr Peggy Breitenstein (Jena)

Lecture: Natural History and Widergeist. Adorno and the late Marx
Friday, 18 October 2019, 6-8 p.m.
University of Oldenburg, Haarentor campus, Room: V 03 0-D001

Workshop
Saturday, 19 October 2019, 10 am - 3 pm
University of Oldenburg, Haarentor campus, Room: V 03 0-D001

The concept of history is a central concept of critical theory. The reference to the historical dynamics of its concepts and objects serves Critical Theory to demonstrate the changeability of social conditions. Nevertheless, a form of social criticism based on the philosophy of history is not only confronted with the problems that also occupy classical approaches to the philosophy of history (such as the question of a necessary historical development or the justification of historically occurring suffering), but above all with how a philosophy of history must be constructed that can serve to justify social criticism. In her work "The Liberation of History", published in 2013, Peggy Breitenstein worked out the solutions that can be found in Adorno and Foucault in this regard. The workshop will focus primarily on her reflections on Adorno.

The number of participants is limited, the texts to be read will be sent out after prior registration. Please register at: by 29 January 2019.

Dear first-year students,

From 7 to 11 October 2019, the orientation week will take place at the C.v.O. University of Oldenburg takes place. We also have a few dates where you can get to know each other and us from the Student council. On Tuesday, we cordially invite you to get to know our cinema series Philosophy and Film . This will take place in the local cinema CineK. Admission is free for all students. On Thursday, there will be a Freshers' Café where we will give you some information about studying, but also about us and what we do. We will also be happy to help you with organising your timetable, the course of your studies and any other questions you may have about studying. In the evening, if you like, we can meet up at Marvin's for a pub evening.

Tuesday: 18:30 - Philosophy and film at CineK

Thursday: 15:00-18:00 - Ersti Café and timetable help in room A01 0-009

from 20:00 pub night at Marvin 's

Location
University of Oldenburg, Ammerländer Heerstrasse 121, 26111 Oldenburg Room: V03-1-M136

Dates
Wednesdays from 3-6 p.m. from 31 July, last date: 25 September 2019

Contact person
Maxi Berger:

Topic
According to Adorno, works of art cannot be understood independently of the social contexts within which they are experienced. Thus, the conditions for the reproduction of artists and recipients are also given by society. But it is not only through individuals that art is socially constituted. Adorno is interested in the question of how the content of artworks can be interpreted socially, also or perhaps precisely because they refuse direct political appropriation by whomever.
In this workshop, the relevant passages from Aesthetic Theory will be worked through and discussed using the close-reading method in order to find out how Adorno defines the relationship between autonomous art, the culture industry and the social situation.

Literature
Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, Frankfurt a.M. 1997

Theodor W. Adorno died in the summer of 1969. The 50th anniversary of his death in 2019 is the occasion for a series of lectures dedicated to the philosophical and political relevance of his work. The contributors to the series of lectures will not so much ask what can still be done with Adorno today, but rather attempt to determine how the present-day society can be understood through Adorno's work. In the summer semester 2019 and winter semester 2019/20, the series of lectures will present the perspectives developed and research projects carried out at the Adorno Research Centre and welcome guests from Germany and abroad who have made significant contributions to Adorno research.

Wednesday, 8 May 2019
18.00-19.30
A 14, Lecture Hall 3

Philip Hogh (Oldenburg): "...where it hurts."
On the social content of pain and suffering in Adorno's theory

Following this from 7.30 pm

Adorno, pets, art and an expanded handbook.
Presentation of the expanded 2nd edition of the Adorno Handbook

Lectures by and discussion with the editors Richard Klein
(Freiburg), Johann Kreuzer (Oldenburg) and Stefan Müller-Doohm
(Oldenburg)

Monday, 27 May 2019
18.00-20.00
Campus Haarentor, Room A 01-0-007

Sebastian Tränkle (Berlin): Negative Rhetoric.
Materialist language criticism after Adorno

Monday, 3 June 2019
18.00-20.00
Campus Haarentor, Room A 01-0-007

Karin Stögner (Vienna): Images of femininity as a contradiction
- Critical theory and feminism

Monday, 17 June 2019
18.00-20.00
Campus Haarentor, Room A 01-0-007

Maxi Berger (Oldenburg): Aesthetic Constellations of
Self-Consciousness - Dewey and Adorno

Organisation: Dr. Maxi Berger, Dr. Philip Hogh
Further information at: maxi.berger@uni-oldenburg.de,
philip.hogh@uni-oldenburg.de

The journal for critical social theory and philosophy has just published a new issue. This time also with a contribution from a current student and a former student of the Institute of Philosophy.

Some articles are freely accessible: www.degruyter.com/view/j/zksp.2018.5.issue-2/issue-files/zksp.2018.5.issue-2.xml?fbclid=IwAR2NvoHY3VWMxmdWUcKaaqeT4a_UTlUs7hZ-AneOhq1KeMCeKoSC9Iz7JNI

The entire journal is available free of charge from the university library.

The Student council of the philosophy student body invites all philosophy students to this year's general assembly on Wednesday, 19 December 2018 at 12.15 pm in M 0-035.

Agenda:

1. Regularia
2. Reports and questions
3. Miscellaneous

You can find the preliminary minutes of the last two plenary meetings in our StudIP event under Files -> University Politics -> Plenary Meetings of the Philosophy Student Body.

The struggle for the proletariat
On the historical utility value of the working class

Thursday 13 December 2018, 19:00, A1 0-005
Lecture & discussion with Niklaas Machunsky (editor of the magazine Prodomo)

As society becomes increasingly polarised, the advocates of the social question sense an opportunity. Large sections of society have slipped into precarious working conditions, even though the economy has been booming for years. There is agreement on the right and left that something needs to be done. But even more astonishingly, there is also agreement on the direction of travel: back to the sovereign nation state!

In retrospect, the German economic miracle of the past presents itself as rosy-cheeked, calm and hopeful. The time of the miracle was one of restoration. It was characterised by the attempt to recapture the unleashing of National Socialism through fixed forms. Precisely because of the successful restoration, it could be described as a clearly defined social order, as a "levelled middle-class society" (Schelsky) or as an "administered world" (Adorno). It was a society in which material differences shrank and the working class was integrated through participation in mass consumption. In other words, a society that lived protected behind the fixed borders of the nation state and whose members lay on the couch after work, watched Derrick, leafed through the Neckermann catalogue and dreamed of their next camping holiday. Today, this post-war "economic miracle" is rarely explained as a consequence of the victory over Nazi Germany, but rather viewed in isolation from war and barbarism. However, it was precisely the productive forces unleashed during the war and the destruction of commodities and people that made it possible for the masses to participate in consumption in the post-war period, and it was precisely these productive forces that liquefied the supposedly fixed forms again.

Because the dynamics of globalisation that began in the late 1970s only threaten to create ever more precarious conditions and are increasingly affecting the middle class, its right and left wings want to return to the idyll behind the border fence of yesteryear. There, some hope to find the ethos of the national community and others mass consumption and full employment, and both fear cheap competition from abroad. Both factions see the means to achieve this goal in the proletariat and therefore invoke its return. It should serve them as a momentum to oust the establishment. The green-liberal establishment, the centre, also sees the potential for a revolt growing, but where the others invoke the proletariat, they only recognise white trash. Out of democratic respect, however, they address it as the proletariat and promise it new forms of representation. The proletariat today is therefore above all a spectre with which the individual factions of the middle class frighten each other.

This struggle for and with the proletariat will be presented in the lecture and the social dynamics of which this struggle is an expression will be illuminated. Particular attention will be paid to the development of the use value, because its destruction was supposed to mean the end of history. But neither is the proletariat returning, nor are we at the end of history!

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Dear all,

The workshop from 10 July this year is to be continued, as we did not manage to work through the text. If you were unable to attend the first session, you are welcome to try to catch up.

You can find the text under the following link: Text

The announcement text from the first part of the workshop:

In this workshop, the script for Peter Bulthaup's farewell lecture will be read. "On the End of Philosophy" poses the question of the current situation of philosophy, which is dialectically caught between enlightenment and capitalist rule, and threatens to end in the affirmation of the existing. Only by reflecting on the genesis of this development in relation to the validity of the concepts of philosophy can its critical content be determined.

Peter Bulthaup was Professor of Philosophy in Hanover until 2004.

Michael Städtler is a professor and member of staff at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Wuppertal and on the board of the Peter Bulthaup Archive.

12 November 2018 at 16:30 in room V03 3-S340

Dear female colleagues, dear female students,

We, Christine Zunke (Equal Opportunities Officer of School IV) and Anna Plader, would like to invite you to an information event on equal opportunities work at the University of Oldenburg and the Institute of Philosophy. Gender equality work is an important area at the university. It is particularly concerned with promoting female students and staff in studies, teaching and research. This can be done in a variety of ways (e.g. by ensuring an appropriate ratio of female to male tutors when allocating tutorials or by deliberately encouraging women to apply for academic positions). We would like to inform you about the tasks, possibilities and purpose of equal opportunities and hope that this will arouse your interest in this important area of work, in order to fill the position of Equal Opportunities Officer at the Institute of Philosophy, which became vacant on 1 October 2018, as soon as possible.

The meeting will take place on 12 November 2018 at 16:30 in room V03 3-S340 with coffee/tea and cake. For our planning and further information, we would like to ask for a short informal registration by 05.11.2018 to please.

We hope for your interest and numerous attendance and remain with kind regards!

Christine Zunke & Anna Plader

On 2 and 3 November 2018, the Forum for Marx Research Oldenburg is organising the second Oldenburg Marx Conference at the University of Oldenburg on the topic: 200 Years of Marx, 150 Years of Das Kapital - The Sting Remains!

Here you can download the flyer and the programme with explanatory texts.

uol.de/marxresearch/

You can now apply for teaching assignments for the summer semester 2019.

The application deadline is 2 November 2018. Applications should be sent to the module coordinator in whose module your course is primarily located.

You must submit at least:

-title and description of the course

-Module assignments

-Curriculum vitae

-Copies of degree certificates

-if applicable, list of previous courses

-Teaching evaluations, if applicable

-if applicable, references

As a rule, at least a Master's degree is required to obtain a teaching position.

Further information here: uol.de/philosophie/studium-lehre/lehrauftraege/

To mark the start of the semester and the beginning of your studies, we would like to read a welcoming speech by Max Horkheimer, which he addressed to the new students in 1952. For many years, Horkheimer was director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, where critical theory in the spirit of Kant, Hegel, Marx and Freud was taught. The text was published under the title "Akademisches Studium" in volume 8 of Horkheimer's Collected Writings. In his speech, Horkheimer insists, against the objective tendency of the time, on an educational process that "preserves the memory of the human" and refuses to conform to capital, the state and domination. Together, we want to find out whether the basic theses of the text are still valid for today's society and university and, in this case, what this means for the study of philosophy.

"The university is the place where the memory of the human is to be preserved and the human is to be kept alive with all its possibilities. It is the place where individuals are educated who can reflect on the process and help to ensure that it nevertheless leads to the good. As students, by voluntarily bringing it upon yourselves to do justice to the scientific cause, to follow it in all its shades, to be devoted and open-minded as researchers, you are forming yourselves into thinking, active people who can resist the world as it is. "

The text will be made available on site.

You can find further dates in the O-week here: uol.de/fsphilo/start-of-studies/

Dear all,

In the discussion about the film The Miracle of Bern, which we last showed in the film series Philosophy and Film, it emerged that in our view its psychological power deserved a closer look. For this reason, we would now like to invite you to watch the film again together and then read the text Das Wunder von Bern. Catharsis of the Nation by Sonja Witte.
In the essay, the psychoanalyst explores the question of how a "change in Germanness after 1945" is "proven" by the film. Drawing on Sigmund Freud's theory of mass formation, she aims to show that film, as a "German dream congealed in images", serves the (unconscious) need for collective identification, in which community is supposed to have replaced the people, family and homeland replaced blood and soil, and guilt replaced recovery from defeat.

For legal reasons, the film screening can unfortunately only be for students, but the reading group is open to the public. You do not need to register to attend, but you should read the text beforehand. If you already know the film, you can of course come to the reading circle first.
A copy of the text can be found in the university library in room 11 in the philosophy seminar room.

We would be very pleased about your participation,
Student body Philosophy

When and where?
On 19.09.2018:
14:00: Film
16:00: Reading circle

Location:
Initiative House
Uhlhornsweg 68

What do the study and examination regulations in the subject of Philosophy prescribe and what do they not prescribe?

Ø Can teachers demand active participation?

Ø Can I be obliged to attend courses?

Ø Do I have to be registered for a course via stud.ip in order to participate?

Ø What can I do if lecturers violate the examination regulations in their seminars?

As your student representatives, we have recently been receiving more frequent enquiries about the examination regulations. We have been told that some lecturers are arbitrarily disregarding the applicable regulations and demanding special work for active participation. Many students are unsure whether this is permissible. Not all of them dare to ask the lecturers and accept the special participation requirements for their seminars because they don't want to get into trouble. The number of unreported offences is therefore likely to be much higher.

We also observe that a tone of reprimand and discipline towards students is spreading at the Institute. The compulsory attendance and attendance control in courses, which has not yet been reintroduced - partly due to student protests - is being enforced by some lecturers through moralising appeals to students in an informal manner. Those who only attend seminars irregularly or refuse to provide additional work for active participation are considered "uncollegial" or even lazy.

Our opinion on this: If you treat students like underage pupils, you will get the same in the seminars. Instead, the Student council for Philosophy insists on the difference between school and university! The best guarantee for well-attended and instructive seminars is and remains good teaching by the lecturers themselves, who address students at eye level and are committed to the cause of philosophy!

We would like to invite all philosophy students to an information event at which we will present the current examination regulations and discuss with you how we intend to counter the many violations of these regulations. We would also be happy to use the event to provide a general overview of the student council's work and opportunities for participation.

Your student body Philo

Philosophy and film - seeing and recognising

"Photography is the truth. Cinema, that's the truth 24 times a second." - From "The Little Soldier" by Jean-Luc Godard

"Film is lying 24 times a second to serve the truth, or to serve the attempt to find the truth." - Michael Haneke

If cinema or film were simply the truth, then there would be no questions to ask, no reason for misunderstanding or incomprehension of what is perceived, it would be pure revelation. But the difference between photography and cinematography, i.e. film, namely the 24 frames per second sequence in classic analogue cinema, only gives the illusion of movement. The mere static nature of the individual image is transformed by the projector into the appearance of dynamism. But the camera gives the biggest hint of deception: it is only a section in which the viewer is at the mercy of the director. The truth of what we see, if there is any, cannot lie in the immediate visual impression, but must first be extracted from it.

In the "Philosophy and Film" series, which the Philosophy student body is allowed to realise with the financial support of the AStA, the Independent Student Council and the Autonomous Department for the Disabled, we try to elicit from the films presented what not only corresponds to the mere material, but only reveals itself in context. In a joint discussion, we try to exchange views on what we have seen and thus, step by step, to penetrate from the first individual impressions to the essential content of the film. The intention of the creator does not have to play the essential role, because often what makes a film so worth seeing and insightful lies in its assertions about it or in its failure to achieve what it actually wants to portray.

So it is not only the great, admired classics of cinema that we have dedicated ourselves to in this series, but also precisely those films that can create controversy, that are perhaps even despicable in their content, that appear to be mere lies, but at least reveal something about the makers and their environment. In this way, we hope to provide an interesting and debatable filmic basis for our discussion afterwards.

This year's series begins with the latest film by Finnish director Ari Kaurismäki: "The Other Side of Hope", which tells the story of a Syrian refugee in Helsinki. A look at the regressive understanding of homosexuality in Germany in the 1950s will be provided by a film by the former star director of National Socialism Veit Harlan: "Anders als du und ich (§ 175)", which ironically had to defend itself against the intervention of the FSK for its overly open thematisation of homosexuality. In co-operation with the BeRef, we want to show the film "Freaks" from 1932, which was also only allowed to be shown in the USA after being severely censored.

The films will be shown every Tuesday at 6.30 pm, usually every two weeks at the cine k here in Oldenburg. Admission is free for all students and everyone is welcome. Initially, the focus is on enjoying the film and thus the opportunity to see the films in the setting for which they were made, the cinema and the screen. But the discussion afterwards is of course also open to everyone and we look forward to welcoming numerous participants. We want to approach the film analysis slowly and overcome all the uncertainties and initial difficulties that such discussions can cause for some people.

An overview of this year's film programme:

24.10. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland 2017)
07.11. If... (Lindsay Anderson, United Kingdom 1968)
21.11. Addio, Uncle Tom! (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, Italy 1971)
05.12. Andrej Rubljow (Andrei Tarkowski, USSR 1966)
19.12. Anders als du und ich (§ 175) (Veit Harlan, Germany 1957)
16.01. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, Canada 2012)
23.01. Freaks (Tod Browning, USA 1932) - in co-operation with the BeRef
30.01. Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde, Belgium 1992)
06.02. The Joyful Science (Jean-Luc Godard, France 1969)
13.02. The Man with the Camera (Dsiga Wertow, USSR 1929)

Contributions in the melee of critical theory:

We are pleased to draw your attention to the volume "Kritik und Versöhnung - Beiträge im Handgemenge Kritischer Theorie", which has just been published. The contributions are based on lectures given and discussed by advanced students and young academics at the "Critique and Reconciliation" congress that we organised at the University of Oldenburg in January 2015.

The contributions approach the relationship between the concepts of critique and reconciliation as well as the analysis of the social conditions constituting this relationship in a very diverse way, but at the same time promote the congress's aim of countering the marginalisation of critical theory at universities. In this respect, the congress can also be understood as an initiative of the political work of the student body of philosophy in Oldenburg. In addition to an introduction and a commentary, the volume contains a total of 18 essays as well as an appendix that introduces the authors and documents the congress weekend (mainly in the form of photographs). In addition to the specialist lectures, there was also a supporting programme of literary texts and music.

To give you a more detailed impression, you can have a look at the abstracts of the contributions. We would of course be very pleased if you are interested in our volume. If you would like to purchase a copy of the volume for € 19.80, you can do so on Amazon, directly via BIS-Verlag or by contacting us at .
For those on a tight budget, the texts are also available online free of charge. The anthology can also be borrowed from the Oldenburg University Library and numerous other libraries.

With best regards
the editorial team Jaro Ehlers, Ulrich Mathias Gerr, Eike Köhler, Martin Vialon & Steffen Stolzenberger

Dear fellow students,

You have until 15 August 2017 to apply for a position in Religious Studies at our Institute (or to bring this position to the attention of people who are qualified to do so).

The position will be responsible for teaching in the field of religious studies, which is required for all female teacher training students. As a result, it will no longer be necessary for all students to commute to Bremen for some of their courses.

It has not yet been finalised whether this restructuring will take place for the coming winter semester 2017/18, but the Institute is aiming to do so. All students who wish to start the corresponding module phi 250 in the winter semester 2017/18 should register for the placeholder course phi 250 History and Theory of Religion for the time being.

All information on the requirements and tasks of the position can be found here: uol.de/stellen/?stelle=65555

Postmodern theories are on everyone's lips. Particularly in the humanities departments of academia (e.g. social sciences, cultural studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, education, art colleges and many more), doctrines are now increasingly establishing themselves that are - at least implicitly - based on a series of 'turns'. Be it the 'linguistic turn' ('language creates reality'), the 'cultural turn' ('identities are constructed symbolically') or the 'narrative turn' ('argumentative texts are also narrative texts'). Every few years, the time seems ripe for a new paradigm shift, for new thought patterns or even for a 'new way of thinking' altogether. What is the unity of all these manifestations? And can postmodern consciousness even make this unity the subject of its own theories? After all, this again presupposes concepts of tradition (reason, unity of thought...) with which the universality and necessity of knowledge would be claimed. However, one would like to say goodbye to this tradition, above all to metaphysics, which is identified with domination, as completely as possible.

In the lecture series, we would like to work out what all these theories have in common by examining specific manifestations of postmodern theory in areas such as feminism, the concept of the political and linguistic theory, and determine what postmodernism actually is. To what extent is the postmodern critique of Enlightenment philosophy and concepts such as reason, humanity, science, history, universalism, system and totality relevant? What is the conceptual basis of this critique? What political consequences are derived from it? Are postmodern theories, with their replacement of the critique of social relations by manifold identity politics, even capable of conceiving, let alone justifying, the promise of an "association of free people"? This series of lectures will raise well-founded doubts about this.

Lectures:

24.4. Andreas Benl - Clash of Civilisations or War of Ideas? Cultural relativism in the light of the current situation in the Middle East

8.5. Günther Mensching - Phosphorus, thought and nihilism - On the prehistory of postmodernism

15.5. Martin and Antje Mettin - On language getting lost in itself. Lyotard and postmodern knowledge

12.6. Karina Korecky - Poststructuralist feminism and inauthentic experience

26.6. Ingo Elbe - Die postmoderne Querfront - Zur Kritik des Linkspopulismus am Beispiel seiner VordenkerInnen Chantal Mouffe und Ernesto Laclau

3.7 Jan Rickermann - Der kommende Ausnahmezustand: Zur Kritik des Politischen Existentialismus bei Giorgio Agamben

10.7 Alex Gruber - Postmoderne Seinslehre - Über die Unmöglichkeit poststrukturalistischer Gesellschaftskritik

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All events take place on Mondays at 6.30 pm at the University of Oldenburg, room A05 0-056.

Announcements for the respective lectures can be found on facebook.

The event series is organised by students of the Institute of Philosophy.

You can find the audio recordings of the lectures on the pages of the rote ruhr uni.

Dear fellow students,

We would like to inform you that the ballot on the introduction of a cultural ticket in Haarentor will take place on Tuesday, 6 June and Wednesday, 7 June in the Mensa foyer, from 10 am to 4.30 pm.

The Staatstheater, theatre wrede+, Casablanca and the Oldenburger Kunstverein are all on board. Free admission, discounts and concessions for €3 per semester and student. More information is available at asta-oldenburg.de/kulturticket/

The following members were elected for the students:

as member: Jaro Ehlers
as deputies: Johannes Bruns, Michael Heidemann, Sabine Hollewedde, Eike Köhler, Enrico Pfau

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Dear fellow students,

We would like to draw your attention to the next plenary assembly of the Institute of Philosophy. At this annual plenary meeting, the representatives of the Institute Council of the individual status groups (annually for students, every two years for academic staff, MTV and university lecturers) are elected.

The plenary assembly will take place on Wednesday, 3 May at 2 pm in room A04 0-022 (drawing room). The students will elect one member and at least one deputy member to represent them.

All students can cast their vote at the General Assembly and also stand for election themselves.

The current member and many deputy members of the student body are standing for re-election:

as member: Jaro Ehlers
as deputies: Johannes Bruns, Michael Heidemann, Sabine Hollewedde, Eike Köhler, Enrico Pfau

Best regards
Student council Philosophy

Fake AfD honorary memberships were apparently sent to us as a Student council and to private individuals. Like the organisers of the series "On the Critique of Anti-Semitism", we show solidarity with those personally affected.

More information: "Zur Kritik des Antisemitismus" homepage and on Facebook.

04 April 2017, 6.15 pm Lecture in A14, Lecture Hall 3:

During the Khmer Rouge's tyranny, which lasted from 1975 to 1979, political murder and the starvation of large parts of the population were the order of the day.
While some interpreted the rule of the Khmer Rouge as a fatal consequence of any communist perspective of liberation, parts of the European left, who already longed for liberation from the alienated Western civilisation with images of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, enjoyed a movement that declared war on individualism and any sign of 'Western decadence'.

The lecture will take a look at the constitutional conditions of the movement that became a state and its ideology, and show that the Khmer Rouge was not concerned with a liberated society in which "the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all" (Marx), but rather that blind collectivisation was set as the counter-principle to imperialism, which was located on all sides.

The concept of 'national capitalism' committed to autarky, as already presented by Khieu Samphan in his dissertation, served here as the impetus for a catch-up industrialisation and regressive crisis solution that attempted to position supposedly productive labour against 'usury' and 'unproductive groups'. The urban population and, above all, the minorities living in Cambodia, who fell victim to the Khmer Rouge, were the first to experience first-hand what this meant.

As in every winter semester, there will once again be a philosophical cinema at Cine k, Bahnhofsstraße 11. As usual, we will watch a film that is philosophically relevant in the broadest sense and discuss it afterwards.
Unlike in previous years, this year the whole thing will take place on Tuesdays at 6.30 pm. In addition, we will only start in the third week of lectures and will show three films at the beginning of the lecture-free period in February.
In the event "Philosophy & Film" (number: 4.03.998) for more information.

Films:
01.11. Matt Ross - Captain Fantastic (US 2016)
22.11. Nicolas Winding Refn - Bronson (GB 2008)
29.11. Thomas Vinterberg - Festen/Das Fest (S/D 1998)
13.12. Veit Harlan - Opfergang (D 1942/43)
20.12. Richard Fleischer - Mandingo (US 1974)
10.01. Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (US 1966)
24.01. Andrei Tarkovsky - Zerkalo/ Der Spiegel (SU 1973/74)
31.01. Takeshi Kitano: Takeshis' (JP 2005)
07.02. Jonathan Glazer - Under the Skin (GB/US/CH 2013)
14.02. Alain Resnais - L'Année dernière à Marienbad/ Letztes Jahr in Marienbad (F/I 1961)
21.02. Marcus Mittermeier - Muxmäuschenstill (D 2004)

All films will be shown in the original version, with subtitles if necessary.

The Unikino Gegenlicht takes place on Wednesdays at 8 pm, click here for the programme.

NACHHOLTERMIN

The lecture by Clemens Nachtmann "Ideology in Black and White. On the Critique of Antiracism" will be held today , Friday 10 February, at 7 pm s.t. in the BIS room of the University Library.

In view of the day of the week, we would like to ask you all the more to arrive as punctually as possible so that we can start at 7 pm sharp.

NACHHOLTERMIN

The lecture by Clemens Nachtmann "Ideology in Black and White. On the Critique of Antiracism" will be held today , Friday 10 February, at 7 pm s.t. in the BIS room of the University Library.
In view of the day of the week, we would like to ask you all the more to arrive as punctually as possible so that we can start at 7 pm sharp.

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The student body Philosophy has invited the author Clemens Nachtmann to give a lecture on the topic "Ideology in Black and White. On the Critique of Antiracism" (Wed, 8 February, 7pm, A14-HS3) in Oldenburg. In the run-up to the lecture, there were already outraged re-registrations (some of which have since been withdrawn), in the course of which the student body was publicly accused of offering "racist demagogues"(Oldenburger Rundschau) space to spread their right-wing slogans and thus placing itself in the vicinity of right-wing populists.

The concept underlying this assessment is precisely the subject of the lecture. The criticism of forms of anti-racism is not right-wing populist, but in the sense of an emancipatory criticism of left-wing self-understandings directed precisely against right-wing ideas - as intended by this lecture. If anti-racism is not understood but becomes a slogan, it tends to degenerate into a mere reflex. Such a form of attitude politics will be criticised in the lecture itself. Nachtmann's criticism is not "right-wing propaganda", which the student body is just as opposed to as the invited author. However, unreflected anti-racism threatens to become a mirror image of racism. From such a position, individuals are then subordinated to cultures and inalienable characteristics are ascribed to them. The taz has now also problematised these developments: www.taz.de/Ueber-Rassismus-reden/!5375695/.

Contrary to the insinuation contained in the accusations that Nachtmann wants to "distribute caresses to the German national soul" (Oldenburger Rundschau) , he is concerned with criticising those who, with the purest smug conscience, preach tolerance for everything (and indeed everything regressive) that the cultural pool has to offer in order to develop a new 'purified' national pride. He thus points out that there are common foundations to certain forms of anti-racism, nationalism and racism. He is not interested in defaming an (imagined) group, but in critically reflecting on a theoretical and political position and thinking through its consequences and pitfalls.

To make sweeping judgements about individual theses in advance, while at the same time placing the author and the organisers in the same league as AfD, PEGIDA and co., not only defames the people concerned, but also makes any form of reasonable debate that we hope for from Nachtmann's lecture impossible.

Of course, the student body does not unconditionally support all of the theses in the announcement text, which should generally be the case in the relationship between the organiser and the speaker. If his theses are not supported in the lecture, this can and must be criticised.

Fri, 10 Feb. 2017, 7 p.m. s.t. Lecture in the BIS hall - by Clemens Nachtmann:

"Anti-racism, once a hobbyhorse of small left-wing groups, has long since become German raison d'état: moral outrage against alleged racists and solidarity with refugees are part of the good tone of the Berlin Republic. The idea of "racism" on which this attitude is based has absolutely nothing to do with insight into, let alone analysis of, xenophobia: "racism" is rather an ideological buzzword of an anti-racist racket that lacks any reference to reality, that its members carry before them only as proof of their firmness of conviction and respectability and that serves them as a tried and tested means of arbitrarily and freely determining who is to be considered a "racist". "Anti-racism" is the ideology of a refined society that collaborates with political Islam and therefore needs a flexible and above suspicion, i.e. "anti-fascist" declaration of enmity against all those who mark this collaboration by name. Refugees are bearers of a culture that enriches "us"; other cultures, especially Islam, must be respected and honoured. From this perspective, the mass mobilisation of 2015/16, marketed as a "welcome culture", was a mixture of an Islamophile children's birthday party and an anti-racist popular front, which of course was not about refugees, but about the self-presentation of the good Germans and another attempt in the endless effort to re-equip post-Nazi society into a multicultural tribal association. The lecture traces the basic lines of this process, paying particular attention to the social character that is expressed in it and with a special focus on all those capitulators of the intellect who act as euphemists for this communitarian regression and the Islamisation it entails."

CANCELLED

Thu, 26 Jan 2016, 20:00 Lecture in A14, Lecture Hall 3 - Magnus Klaue:

Even before the founding of the two German states, Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism, which shortly afterwards became the progressive guiding philosophy of the West German cultural chic, found its way into young German not only in the form of his theatre plays, but also through Sartre himself. In 1947, the German premiere of Sartre's drama "The Flies" ("Les Mouches") took place in Düsseldorf, and in 1948 Sartre travelled to Berlin for another premiere of the play. The Düsseldorf performance was directed by Gustaf Gründgens, the Berlin performance by Jürgen Fehling. During the "Third Reich", both had been on Goebbels' and Hitler's "Gottbegnadetenliste", a list of the most important Nazi artists, and had been able to continue their careers after the Allied victory.

The drama, which was able to pass the marks at its French premiere under German occupation in Paris in 1943, although according to the reading promoted by Sartre it was an allegory of the Resistance, was received in Düsseldorf in 1947 as an antique parable of the Allied occupation, and in 1948 in view of the bloc confrontation as a criticism of Stalinism, and in its reception history has undergone almost all the political twists and turns that Sartre did. The lecture will show that the reason for this was not an ambiguity testifying to the aesthetic rank of the drama, but on the contrary a constitutive vagueness that is intimately connected with the political conformism of existentialist phraseology. Based on an analysis of the discussion of "The Flies" with Sartre in Berlin in 1948, it will be shown that this vagueness contributed significantly to the neutralisation of the political and experiential contradictions existing between the discussants.

CANCELLED

17 Jan. 2017, 6.15 pm Lecture in A14, lecture theatre 3 - by Sabine Hollewedde:

The significance of Kantian philosophy for critical theory will be discussed in the lecture. It will be shown that Adorno's engagement with Kant is central to the analysis: the antagonism that pervades bourgeois society is the basis of the antinomies in the bourgeois concept of freedom. Adorno emphasises this in Kant and thus criticises what is commonly claimed and understood as freedom today.

Starting from the critique of idealism, Adorno develops an immanent critique of Kant. In doing so, he emphasises Kant's philosophy against idealism and at the same time points out its idealistic aspects. Using arguments from the philosophy of history and the history of philosophy, Adorno combines classical philosophy with Marx's social theory to show how social antagonisms are represented in the philosophy of German idealism and how idealistic philosophy fails to fulfil its own claim, namely the formulation of a concept of freedom.

Adorno's answer to the question of the "right life", which is traditionally the subject of moral philosophy, is apodictic: "There is no right life in the wrong one." On the futility of private ethics, he states pointedly: It "belongs to morality not to be at home with oneself." It was precisely by leaving antinomies unresolved (and not resolving them idealistically like his successors Fichte and Hegel) that Kant captured the inherently contradictory consciousness of the bourgeois subject. At this point, Adorno follows on from Kant, criticises Kant's attempted solution of dividing the empirical and intelligible worlds and shows that this insoluble antinomy points to the antagonism in society on which it is based.

Accordingly, Adorno's examination of Kant's practical philosophy cannot be described as a "negative moral philosophy" (Schweppenhäuser), which establishes a new 'ought' through negation and is characterised by a "normative dualism". Nor does it contain the demand to bring an "unfinished project of modernity" to an end (Habermas), but rather clearly demonstrates the contradictory nature and ideology of such a 'project'. Adorno, on the other hand, reveals the antinomies of private ethics and shows why moral philosophy fails in bourgeois society. He traces this private ethics back to the antagonistic core structure of bourgeois society through immanent criticism and in conjunction with Marx's theory.

Through the immanent critique of idealism in connection with its reference to social theory, Adorno uses Kant to demonstrate the dialectic in the concepts of reason and freedom and at the same time emphasises the emancipatory aspect of Kant's philosophy in relation to his idealist successors. In doing so, he also criticises Hegel's dialectical resolution of Kant's antinomies. The method of a negative dialectic is thereby outlined.

This can also be taken up in debates on enlightenment and emancipation.

15 Dec. 2016, 7 p.m. Lecture in the BIS hall:

The AfD emerged victorious from the 2016 election year. Since the party also entered state parliaments in western Germany, observers have agreed that the notorious protest party is no longer purely an eastern phenomenon. However, this neglects the fact that the share of votes in the East is double that of the West, as the need to conformistically rebel is particularly pronounced there, which incidentally leads to the Left Party losing more and more ground as a de facto people's party in the new Federal States and its voters defecting to the AfD in droves. The AfD's success - not only in the east - is the result of its open rejection of the federal government's immigration policy and the fact that its messages are tailored to the social character of the argumentative politiciser who is increasingly incapable of reasonable understanding and experience.

However, as authoritarian and delusional as the majority of the AfD's programme is, as repulsive as its sympathy for Putin's Russia is, it offers little in the way of a socio-political response to what is likely to plague some of its voters: It can be assumed that there are striking differences within the party between an East German-ethnic wing and the liberal-conservative position, which did not stop the deputy party chairman of the SPD, Ralf Stegner, from formulating the consensus of panicked AfD opponents and labelling the AfD "a party of right-wing populists and right-wing extremists", regardless of all internal party differences. With the declared fight against actual Nazis, who also exist in the AfD, an equally necessary criticism of Islam is prevented by branding its critics as racists and xenophobes with reference to the AfD.

The lecture will focus on both the AfD and its opponents.

Further information is also available on Facebook.

The course catalogue for the coming winter semester is now online (can also be viewed without StudIP login).

There are again many interesting events at the Institute of Philosophy. We wish you happy holidays and a great winter semester 2016/17.

27 Oct. 2016, 6.30 p.m. Lecture in A14 0-031:

In 2013 in particular, the question circulated in politics and the media: Have we looked closely enough at the danger posed to children by paedophiles? This 'sharpened eye' is a central element of a currently omnipresent panic of suspicion, as can be shown by the example of journalistic publications on the exposure of paedophiles. According to the thesis, what is condensed in the social image of the 'child molester', among other things, are excessively invasive aspects which, from a psychoanalytical perspective, are considered constitutive of the sexual itself and which represent an 'allergic point' (Adorno). This is the starting point for an examination of various 'allergic points' of sexual morality in (post-)Nazi Germany. It will be seen that the meanings of the links between sexuality and the German 'coming to terms with the past' are constantly changing. Against this background, the current concern for the protection of children and the panic about paedophiles proves to be not only a symptom of the current negotiated moral ideal of innocent sexuality, but also how this is interwoven with the history of German 'coming to terms with the past'.

The Forum for Marx Research Oldenburg is organising a conference on 24 and 25 March 2017 to mark the publication of the first volume of Karl Marx's Capital 150 years ago.

Applications for the call for papers can be submitted until 30 September 2016.

You can find the letter and further information on the website of the Student council of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen.

The Campus Radio Open Air Festival is taking place for the first time this year.

Confirmed bands are:

- Linc van Johnson & the Dusters (Folk'n Roll from Oldenburg)

- Tr!iad (sound art from Hamburg)

- Lighthouse Down (college rock from Oldenburg)

- Jan Hiller & Thomas Bisitz (performance & live electronics from OUT in Oldenburg)

- Mother & Son (acoustic rock from Oldenburg)

The event starts on 26 July at 5 pm on the meadow between the A7 and A10 motorways, Haarentor campus. End: 10 pm.

An organic food truck from Bremen will be offering pasta, beer, coffee and cake.

Please register at .

Theodor W. Adorno's "Jargon of Actuality" will be read in the workshop. Copies of this work can be made available on request.

Dr phil. Gerhard Scheit lives as a freelance author in Vienna. He has published works on critical theory and written about anti-Semitism, criticism of the state and questions of aesthetics; Scheiter is co-editor of the Jean Améry edition (2002-2008) and the journal 'sans phrase' (from 2012). His books include: "Hidden State, Living Money. Zur Dramaturgie des Antisemitismus (1999, 2003); "Jargon der Demokratie. Über den neuen Behemoth" (2006); "Der Wahn vom Weltsouverän" (2009); "Treffpunkt der Moderne. Gustav Mahler, Theodor W. Adorno, Viennese Traditions" (2010) (co-author: W. Svoboda); "Quälbarer Leib. Kritik der Gesellschaft nach Adorno" (2011); "Kritik des politischen Engagements" (2016).

This coming Sunday, 17 January, the first of three Sunday matinees that the Karl Jaspers Society is organising in the spring together with the German-Polish Society and Cine k will take place from 11:00 am.

Two conferences entitled forschen@studium will take place at the University of Oldenburg from 8 to 10 June 2016:

From 8 to 9 June 2016, students from all disciplines will have the opportunity to present their research findings and discuss them with interested students and lecturers at the first nationwide and interdisciplinary conference for student research.

You can submit abstracts until 6 March.

Dear all,

As in every winter semester, the philosophical cinema is back at Cine k. As usual, we will watch a film that is philosophically appropriate in the broadest sense and then discuss it.
Unlike in previous years, this year the whole thing will take place on Wednesdays (and not Thursdays) at 6.30 pm. In addition, we will only start on a Tuesday in the third week of lectures. From the fourth week onwards, a film will be shown every Wednesday.
You can find more information in the course "Philosophy & Film" (number: 4.03.905).

Admission is (as before) free for all students of the University of Oldenburg.

Best regards
Student council Philosophy

Dear all,

the Rosa Luxemburg Initiative Bremen and the associazione delle talpe have published the third collection of texts on their lecture events of recent years:
www.rote-ruhr-uni.com/cms/Maulwurfsarbeit-III.html

Dear fellow students,

The new (third) issue of the 'Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie' has just been published. It is available electronically and free of charge via this link. Just click on the line ' To the full texts: DFG-funded Alliance Licence : Vol. 1 (2014) -', then you can access the texts on the following page with your Unilogin.

Printed copies (but not available for loan) can be found in the central university library under the shelfmark Z phi 868 j ZB 4578.

Dear all,

We would like to ask you to take part in the election this Wednesday and Thursday (9.30 am - 2.30 pm in the BIS hall)!
Students from our and other student bodies are running for the Faculty Council of Fak. IV under the name "KRITISCHE STUDIERENDENGRUPPE". Who we are and what we want...

"Dear members and friends of the Karl Jaspers Society,

I would like to invite you today to a second lecture, which will take place at the beginning of next week, on 15 December at 7 p.m. in the Karl Jaspers House, Unter den Eichen 22. In co-operation with us, the Erich Auerbach Archive is organising an evening with the literary scholar and poet Prof. Makarand Paranjape, who teaches in New Delhi. He will speak in English on the topic:

Killing Gandhi: The Question of Indian Guilt

Professor Paranjape, who has just been appointed as the first visiting scholar to the Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair for Global Literary Studies at the University of Tübingen, will explore the question of the extent to which the assassination attempt on the Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 can be explained and interpreted in the context of Karl Jaspers' work The Question of Indian Guilt (1946). The lecture is aimed not only at students of philosophy, but above all at a broad audience who would like to learn more about the forms of civil disobedience practised by Gandhi. The Indian independence movement led by Gandhi contributed to the end of British colonial rule in 1947. Further information on the person and the lecture can be found in the abstract below.

We look forward to seeing you there and wish you all the best,

Prof Dr Matthias Bormuth Prof Dr Martin Vialon

Abstract:

In 1945, soon after the defeat of Germany and the end of World War II, Karl Jaspers delivered a series of profound and moving lectures on 'The Question of German Guilt'. These were published in German as Die Schuldfrage in 1946, a few months before Gandhi's assassination, and in a widely discussed English translation in 1948 soon after. Jaspers begins by acknowledging that 'The temptation to evade this question is obvious; we live in distress - large parts of our population are in so great, such acute distress that they seem to have become insensitive to such discussions' (Jaspers 1946; 2000: 21). Perhaps, a vast number of Indians also felt a similar sense of distress and apathy after the traumas, bloodletting, and displacement of the Partition. Under the circumstances, it would not be difficult to understand the evasion, if not repression, of their guilt not only in the enormous carnage and violence of Partition but also in the murder of the Mahatma which was somehow so intrinsically linked to this subcontinental tragedy. Though the circumstances were so different, we may have much to learn from Jasper's exploration of German guilt over the atrocities against the Jews and the great bloodbath of the war. This talk, based on the recently published The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi (London: Routledge, 2014), is an attempt to tease out the implications of Jasper's work in the context of the aftermath of India's Partition and Gandhi's assassination."

sounds quite interesting:

"Dear people,

We are looking for fellow campaigners to found a working group for plural economics in Oldenburg! For some time now, there has been resistance against the one-sidedness of Economics Education. Through a group in Oldenburg, we want to support this process and educate ourselves together.
Our (still completely open) idea is to discuss the diversity of economic theories in the working group for plural economics. We then want to use these theories to discuss the social and economic problems of our time (refugee movements, environmental destruction, financial market and euro crisis). We want to create a space to critically scrutinise the often taught mainstream economics of economics and discuss alternative approaches that could do justice to the complexity of social issues and illuminate these issues from different perspectives.
In the kick-off event, we would like to discuss the idea of the working group with you and consider which topics we want to work on and how (e.g. panel discussion, reading circles, etc.).

We will meet on Thursday, 11 December at 6 pm at the University of Oldenburg in room A04 4-407.

We look forward to seeing you!"

Dear all,

Today, one day before the end of our CfP, we can report that we
are extremely satisfied with both the quantity and quality of the abstracts submitted so far.
Nevertheless, we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions up to and including Wednesday 19 November 2014 for last-minute producers
.
We wish you a productive weekend and look forward to receiving further suggestions for topics.

You can find the call for papers and other important information on the congress homepage.
There will also be an event for Oldenburg students who only want to attend as listeners.

Best regards
KuV organising committee

Dear new and old fellow students,

Welcome (back) to the university for the winter semester 2014/15! We wish you a pleasant and successful semester and a good start to your studies. You can find helpful information and links to get you started HERE.

There is also an event organised by our student body.

Dear all,

I would like to cordially invite you to the reading from the book
"Die Sprache der Judenfeindschaft im 21. Jahrhundert" with
Mathias Jakob Becker from the Technical University of Berlin
on Tuesday, 14 October at 7.30 pm at the PFL Cultural Centre
.

"Dear student representatives,

I would like to inform you that there will be another interdisciplinary tutor training course this year ( 29 September - 10 October 2014), which is being coordinated by the ZSB and can now be viewed online: uol.de/tutorenschulung

Once again, many members of staff and doctoral students at the University have agreed to take part in the tutor training programme, so that a diverse range of courses can be offered.

Registration for the training is possible from 1 September in Stud.IP. A programme flyer is available on request. As in the previous year, all subject tutors can take part in the training course. The training is compulsory for first-time tutors.

[...]

If you haveany questions, please contact the coordinator Margrit Ladenthin (ZSB), Tel.: -2466, e-mail:

Yours sincerely, Margrit Ladenthin"

Dear students,

The Philosophy student body is once again inviting you to the Iffens Environmental Station for the Philosophy student body trip. There you can spend a relaxed weekend reading, discussing, singing, going for walks, playing and enjoying yourself. The cost of the weekend is €17, and bed linen can be hired for an additional €3.50.

The trip will take place from 18.07. - 20.07. If you are interested, please send an email to FSPhilo@uol.de or sign up on the non-binding registration list in the Philosophy student council room M0-035.

Best regards, your student council team

Dear fellow students,

As you may have already noticed from the numerous posters, the Student Council for Economics and Law is organising a charity event "Hinschauen statt Wegschauen" (Look instead of looking away) on 9 July 2014 from 4 to 10 pm for the benefit of the Autonomous Women's Shelter Oldenburg e. V.. We will be organising a barbecue near the barbecue area at A11, to which students from all disciplines are cordially invited. As a supporting programme, we are offering table football and a bull riding station. We will also be broadcasting the World Cup match. All proceeds will go to the above-mentioned beneficiary, so that this event corresponds to our understanding of social responsibility.

We would be very pleased if you, as representatives of the student bodies, would visit our event, publicise it via the mailing lists available to you and thus support us in our campaign. You can find more information on Facebook at www.facebook.com/events/488681744611928/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming.

Under this link you will also find information about lecturers who will be climbing on the bull or challenging themselves at the foosball table.

We look forward to welcoming many faces and spending a great day.

Thank you in advance for your support, see you on Wednesday and best regards,

Benni and Jannis

(FSR WiRe)

With considerable delay, we are now reporting on the minutes of the three meetings of the working group that have now taken place on the initiative of the Study Commission in preparation for a third round table.

The first of the three meetings took place on 11 December last year. There are two sets of minutes, one by Sören Koselitz and one, with additions, by Matthias Huck.

The working group met for a second time on 8 January of the current year. The points from the first meeting that were considered interesting were taken up and discussed, as can be seen here. As requested by the majority, on this day, as well as at the third meeting, opinion polls were drawn up on the topics discussed, which were to form a conclusion for the working group. However, these opinions only represent the personal views of the participants and have no impact on the competences of the Round Table, which must remain the determining body in the discussion about the Senate resolutions of 2009.

At the third meeting of the working group, on 29 January, discussions continued on the points considered to be of interest. This is initially reflected in the following minutes. These minutes were anonymously corrected in the following version and subsequently commented on by Jaro Ehlers.

The next round table will now take place on 07 May.

"Hello dear student bodies,

We are a group of students from the Bachelor's and
Master's degree programmes in History and German Studies at the University of
Freiburg and are organising an interdisciplinary
student conference on the topic of "Violence - History -
Society", which will take place from 30 May to 1 June 2014 at
Freiburg.

For your information, we have attached the call for papers as well as
and the draft for our poster. All important
information can also be found on our homepage:
gggtagung.wordpress.com. We would be grateful if you could inform
students about our plans (via Facebook etc.)
and thank you in advance for your help.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at this e-mail address
.

Kind regards,
The conference planners"

Information fresh from the Elections Office:
The "Critical Student Group" has received more than 3/4 of all Faculty IV votes and thus receives both seats on the Faculty Council!
We are happy and thank you for your support!

More details at the Elections Office.

Dear student body, dear students of School IV, on 22 and 23 January, the election of student representatives to the Faculty Council and the University Senate will take place on the Uhlhornsweg campus (in the library hall, don't forget your ID) from 9.30 am to 2.30 pm. Please take part in the election! David Barteczko and Jaro Ehlers are among the candidates for the University Senate on the wide-ranging FuWi list from the Philosophy student body. We would also like your votes for them. (Incidentally, List 2 does not want to be elected - it has only put itself forward on the basis of special voting rights). Steffen Stolzenberger, Raben Witt, Jaro Ehlers, Jannik Kordts and Matthias Huck (in this order) are running for the Faculty Council under the name "Critical Student Group". Please take the small step of voting next week, because the "Critical Student Group" urgently needs your votes! And if you read something like this in the Asta calendar, even more so.

You can find the official information on the Elections Office website.

Dear student body, dear students of School IV,

On 22 and 23 January, the election of student representatives to the Faculty Council and the University Senate will take place on the Uhlhornsweg campus from 9.30 am to 2.30 pm.
Please take part in the election!
Important: You can take part in the election even if only your second subject is assigned to School IV, as long as you fill out a corresponding assignment form by 15 January (download HERE).
(This "assignment" only applies to the elections and has no further consequences!)
You can post the completed form in the Philosophy student body mailbox or slip it under the door of the student body room (M-0-035, next to stage 2 of the Unikum). We will send all documents to the Elections Office.

Please take this step, because the "Critical Student Group" urgently needs your votes!

And if you read something like this in the Asta calendar, even more so.

You can find the official information on the Elections Office website.

The minutes of the 2nd Round Table of School IV have been finalised and can be downloaded HERE.

At yesterday's meeting of the Study Commission, it was decided that a working group - consisting of three student representatives and one MTV member, one Mittelbauler member and one professor per Institute - would develop targeted proposals for measures to improve teaching. These proposals will then be presented and discussed at a third round table. The Dean of Studies announced that he would be inviting students to this working group in the near future.

INVITATION TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS

The (extraordinary) general assembly will take place on 13 November 2013 from 4 pm in room A01-0-005.

Every enrolled student of Philosophy/Values&Norms is invited.

Dear student body,
We are pleased to inform you that we are offering the seminar "Philosophy and Film" in co-operation with cine-k in the winter semester 2013/2014. The seminar offers students from all departments the opportunity to watch films that usually convey socio-critical or psychoanalytical content and then reflect on them philosophically in a group discussion.

The seminar is an initiative of the Philosophy student body and is financed by student funds. This means that admission is free for students. No CPs can be earned in the seminar. Rather, the aim is to provide students with an interdisciplinary and culturally appealing space for reflection beyond the usual hunt for CPs.

The seminar will always take place on Thursdays from 6pm to 10pm at cine-k. On certain dates to be announced, the discussion will take place at Marvin's after the film.

There will be 14 dates, of which 10 films have been chosen (you can see the list of films already selected HERE ). For the remaining 4 dates, films will be selected that have been suggested by students. Please send us an if you would like to suggest a film for the seminar.

We look forward to seeing you!

Your
student body philosophy

Dear students of School 4,

You may have already noticed in your emails or in stud.ip the invitation from the Dean's Office to the "2nd Round Table" next Wednesday 16 October 2013 at 4 pm in the BIS hall.

We would like to encourage you to take part in the discussion about the possible far-reaching changes to our study conditions.

Under discussion are significant changes to the Bachelor's examination regulations [BPO] (e.g. attendance control, several examinations per module, etc.). The 2nd Round Table gives us all a platform to express our opinion(s) on this and to work on constructive improvements to prevent the current study conditions from becoming even more restrictive and school-based.

In order to be able to take a closer look at the background to this process and the round table event, we are providing you with some information material here.

- Invitation text for the current round table (interesting: for comparison: the invitation text of the 1st round table)

- Minutes of the 1st round table from 19 June 2013

- Position paper of thedeans of studies and as a possible answer to this the:

- Draft position paper by students (many thanks to Elisabeth Franzmann from the "Study Structure Project").

We look forward to a lively, goal-orientated discussion and your numerous attendance at this rare opportunity away from the daily routine of small, inner circles in the sparsely populated student committees of the university. See you on Wednesday!

Dear student body,
Yesterday we received a message that we regretted to hear and would like to share with you here. We would like to thank Mr Ruschig for his commitment as Institute Director and as a dedicated professor in research and teaching. You can read his email to the members of the student body below:

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Dear members of the Philosophy student body,

On Friday I received the news that the Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court has not upheld my appeal against the Presidential Board's rejection of my proposal to postpone my retirement. Consequently, as of today (1 October 2013) I am no longer a civil servant university lecturer at the Institute.
First and foremost, I would like to thank you all very much for your wonderful support!
I would have liked to continue working at the Carl von Ossietzky University because I feel committed to the students and the development of free study and because I feel committed to political philosophy. I would also have liked to continue in the office of Institute Director, to which I was elected so often, because I know that the free spirit of study does not simply exist and because the equal participation of students, academic staff and MTV employees in all matters of the Institute has to be fought for again and again, sometimes against considerable resistance on the professors' bench (and in the staff offices).In contrast to the students and the academic staff, the professors at the Institute (I learnt that there are professors and professors, namely those who have a permanent position ("chair") and those who do not; in the following, this refers to the former) did not support me; moreover, there are 'colleagues' professors in the Institute and in the School (the former department, see The former department, see previous bracket) who, in co-operation with the staff units and the President, invented the 'constraints' that prevented me from continuing to work and thus actively and also (supposedly) passively pushed for my forced retirement - you have to call it forced retirement if, on the one hand, there is my willingness to work longer of my own free will and, on the other hand, there is a legal obligation to do so, on the one hand, and on the other, a legal situation that enables and even favours such continued work, together with the flexibilisation of the age limit being pushed forward by the state, which is intended to relieve budgets of the growing pension payments and is presented as a financial policy necessity. Everything spoke in favour of extending my contract: there is a need for professorial teaching in the field of practical philosophy; Prof. Kreuzer is in a research semester; student numbers are growing; the degree programme is at 140% capacity; the seminars are overcrowded. What's more, it would have been easy to finance the extension of the contract. The fact that these 'colleague' professors enforced my retirement against my will and against the will of an overwhelming majority at the Institute, even though there was a need and even though the extension could have been financed, indicates that the 'practical constraints' cited in court, which allegedly prevented me from continuing to work, are pretence and are in fact cited for political reasons, which these gentlemen represent and yet do not publicly acknowledge.The 'colleague' professors in question will celebrate my forced retirement as a success of their political bullying and as the first step towards expelling the free spirit from the Institute. The Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court has not put a stop to this step. However, this does not mean that standing up for free study is wrong. This advocacy does not depend on one person and not on the fact that a person is no longer a civil servant university lecturer.
Thank you once again for your support. What this means is not devalued by the fact that the university authorities, in conjunction with an OVG, have proved to be stronger.

Despite all this!

Ulrich Ruschig