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Here, researchers from the University of Oldenburg and guest authors write about how societies perceive and thematise themselves, how they reassure themselves of their respective present and, in doing so, project themselves into the future.

How are these self-perceptions and self-designs connected to institutions, media and techniques for shaping nature, society and subjectivity? How do they model everyday life and encourage people to behave in a certain way? How are these interventions in the given justified and legitimised, but also criticised, rejected or undermined?

These questions, whose interdisciplinary reflection is one of the central concerns of the Research Centre "Genealogy of the Present", are explored by the bloggers from different specialist perspectives and contexts of activity with a view to controversial topics such as migration, inequality, digitalisation, crime, health and ecology.

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Workshop "Guilt in history"

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Workshop with Prof. em. Dr Klaus-Michael Kodalle

"Guilt in history. The 'function' of forgiveness in the field of tension between remembering, repressing and forgetting"

Forgiveness has been considered in various cultural contexts since antiquity. Christianity does not have a monopoly on interpretation, even though it initially set strong accents. In modern philosophy, Hegel and Kierkegaard devoted themselves to forgiveness in a formative way, without neglecting the depths of the understanding of forgiveness. The profile of the concept is to be discussed in the field of tension between morality and law. Is there such a thing as unforgivable? Does forgiveness have 'its' time? Especially in the spell of state crimes and their 'overcoming' in the 20th/21st century, the question also arises: Can the collective commitment to 'reconciliation' or 'unforgivable guilt' be harmonised with the individual perspective of the victim/survivor? Who is 'right' here? Can there be a generally binding answer to this question? The basis for the discussion is Klaus-Michael Kodalle's Thinking Pardon. The misjudged basis of humane relationships (2013).

Date: 14.07.2015
Time: 10-16 h
Place: A03 1-109

Please send your registration to Bianca Pick at the following email address:

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