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Carolin Emcke @emcke.bsky.social · Aug 9

Wer Spiegelei oder Beerdigung oder Reanimation sagen kann, kann auch Richter:innen sagen #relax

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Anika Oettler @anikaoettler.bsky.social · Aug 20

Staatsräson? Hier ein paar Zeilen zur Einordnung
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blog.soziologie.de/2025/08/uebe...

Über Staatsräson, Verfassungspatriotismus und die Menschenwürde – SozBlog

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Anika Oettler @anikaoettler.bsky.social · Jul 10

Two new interdisciplinary English-taught MA programs at the University of Marburg on research in political and social science!🧐 Discover more about these innovative programs and how to apply here: www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb03/stud...

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Anika Oettler @anikaoettler.bsky.social · May 18

Entwicklungszusammenarbeit gerät zunehmend unter Beschuss. Welche Bedeutung hat das für geopolitische Machtasymmetrien, Migrationsdynamiken und Menschenrechte? Darüber spreche ich am 22.5. mit Valeria Hänsel, Mariel Reiss und Myriell Fußer.

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Mariel Reiss @marielreiss.bsky.social · Mar 26

Only a few days left to submit your paper or panel for our @trace-center.de annual conference at @zfk-mr.bsky.social
Come join us in Marburg in November for insightful discussions on slow violence and political harm

Mariel Reiss @marielreiss.bsky.social · Feb 10

Join us at Uni Marburg @zfk-mr.bsky.social in November for the annual @trace-center.de conference! 👇

Zentrum für Konfliktforschung @zfk-mr.bsky.social · Feb 10

📣CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | For the TraCe Annual Conference 2025, which will focus on the theme of "Beyond the Spectacle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm".

Deadline for Submission: April 1, 2025
More information here: uni-marburg.de/abv6rK

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Mariel Reiss @marielreiss.bsky.social · Feb 10

Join us at Uni Marburg @zfk-mr.bsky.social in November for the annual @trace-center.de conference! 👇

Zentrum für Konfliktforschung @zfk-mr.bsky.social · Feb 10

📣CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | For the TraCe Annual Conference 2025, which will focus on the theme of "Beyond the Spectacle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm".

Deadline for Submission: April 1, 2025
More information here: uni-marburg.de/abv6rK

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Viviana García Pinzón @vivigarciap.bsky.social · Feb 10

Current debates are characterized by a simplification, if not outright distortion, of decolonial and postcolonial perspectives. In this article, @anikaoettler.bsky.social reviews intersecting arguments at the core of both approaches and reflects on their contributions to PACS. shorturl.at/RxwYN

https://rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/02/06/against-simplification/

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Felix Anderl @felixanderl.bsky.social · Jan 30

We're organizing a workshop on methodological challenges re slow and structural violence in Marburg. Tania Li will give a keynote. If you would like to contribute a paper, please send us abstracts of up to 250 words by February 15. See the call here: politicalethnography.com/call-for-pap...

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Peace News Network @peacenewsnet.bsky.social · Dec 10

Last week, Angela Lederach shared three lessons that she has learned from the Colombian campesino approach to "peace without hurry."

Read here:

Slow Peace: Three Lessons from Grassroots Peacebuilders in Colombia - Peace News Network

What does the Colombian campesino approach to "peace without hurry" entail? Angela Lederach shares three lessons she has learned.

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Anika Oettler @anikaoettler.bsky.social · Nov 9

35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall. It was a pleasure to share incomplete and subjective eyewitness accounts with Ralf Leiteritz, Alexander Gümbel, Vadim Oswalt and Tatjana Louis.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Oct 10

Wie wirken Bilder von Gewalt auf uns? Wann werden sie zu voyeuristischen Schaustücken und wann zu notwendigen Dokumenten? Gemeinsam mit der Kunsthalle Giessen laden wir am 30.10. 18h zu einem öffentlichen #Dialogpanel zur Eröffnung unserer #Jahreskonferenz ein.
www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

Poster: Darstellungen exzessiver Gewalt – zwischen Verstörung und Attraktion. Abb.: Vincent Haiges, Die Leiche eines toten russischen Soldaten im Auto eines Suchtrupps, Voznesenk, 15.03.2022. Courtesy Vincent Haiges.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Oct 1

#TraCe Annual Conference “The Excessive Use of Force”:
Join us in Giessen on Oct 30 to Nov 1. Following a public dialogue panel on the depictions of excessive violence at Giessen's Kunsthalle, researchers analyze its use in past and present. Program out now!
www.trace-center.de/en/events/th...

TraCe: Annual Conferences

Third Annual Conference: The Excessive Use of Force

www.trace-center.de

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Zentrum für Konfliktforschung @zfk-mr.bsky.social · May 2

Einladung zur 2. Veranstaltung der Vortragsreihe “Konflikte in Gegenwart und Zukunft” des @zfk_mr in Kooperation mit dem Marburger Stadtgespräch.

📆06.05.24
⌚18.30 Uhr
📍 Historischer Rathaussaal,
Am Markt 1, Marburg
🔗https://uni-marburg.de/YTwBCD

#Marburg #Konflikt #GegenwartundZukunft

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Zentrum für Konfliktforschung @zfk-mr.bsky.social · Apr 22

Erste Veranstaltung der Vortragsreihe “Konflikte in Gegenwart und Zukunft” des @zfk_mr in Kooperation mit dem Marburger Stadtgespräch in diesem Semester.

📆30.04.24
⌚18.30 Uhr
📍 Vortragsraum Universitätsbibliothek, Marburg
🔗https://uni-marburg.de/wiycqt

#wissenschaftsfreiheit #marburg

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Anika Oettler @anikaoettler.bsky.social · Feb 29

Here is a clear and nuanced piece on Bukele's concentration of power, his security strategy of coercive pacification, gang crackdown, and the rise of electoral autocracy in El Salvador. By Viviana García Pinzón and José Salguero.
urbanviolence.org/myths-and-ha...

Myths and Hard Truths in the Latin American Security Landscape

By Viviana García Pinzón & José Salguero. We revisit some of the pivotal developments that have shaped El Salvador’s path from a violent democracy towards becoming an electoral autocracy. We c…

urbanviolence.org

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Anika Oettler @anikaoettler.bsky.social · Jan 19

This week I heard the sad news that Nicaraguan sociologist José Luis Rocha passed away. I wrote a few words about him:
www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb03/sozi...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · Dec 10

🌈Neuer #TraCe Policy Brief beleuchtet am Tag der #Menschenrechte die globale Lage von LSBTIQ*-Personen. @anikaoettler.bsky.social & @marielreiss.bsky.social stellen Maßnahmen zum Schutz von LSBTIQ*-Personen auf den Prüfstand & formulieren Aufgaben für die Politik
www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

Cover des Policy Brief: "Weltweit auf dem Prüfstand: die Rechte von LSBTIQ*-Personen. Wie die deutsche Politik gefordert ist.

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Dr Leandra Bias 💙💛 @openlybiased.bsky.social · Nov 30

Today Russia's Supreme Court ruled that the "international LGBT movement" is "extremist".

Under the extremism law even the display of the extremist group's symbols can be punished with 15d detention up to 4ys prison.

What we see is a hyperpatriarchal development 1/n

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Felix Anderl @felixanderl.bsky.social · Nov 29

Our research Center on the Transformation of Political Violence @trace-center.de has now also left twitter. Here is the statement on the reasons behind the move. Follow TRACE on bluesky to stay informed!

TraCe: TraCe leaves Twitter/X

[Translate to Englisch:] Veranstaltungsdetails

www.trace-center.de

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Anika Oettler @anikaoettler.bsky.social · Nov 26

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Katharina Hoppe @katharinahppe.bsky.social · Nov 23

Für alle *Gender Fans* (BILD Zeitung 2023).

Statement zu den Verbotsplänen der GroKo in Hessen:

cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/aktuelles/20...

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Anika Oettler @anikaoettler.bsky.social · Nov 20

Abgesehen von diesem line-up von Chicago Boys verheisst auch die angekündigte Zusammen- und Überführung der sozialpolitischen Ressorts in ein argentinisches "Ministerium für Humankapital" nix Gutes.
www.pagina12.com.ar/620140-la-me...

Anika Oettler @anikaoettler.bsky.social · Nov 18

Why Is the Cruel Sexual Violence of the October 7 Hamas Attack Being Ignored?
A podcast to listen to:
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www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Fabricio Rodríguez @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social · Nov 2

Über Kolonialität & Hochschule sprachen @Cita_Wetterich @unifreiburg.bsky.social+ich im podcast #FokusFrieden-wir erzählen aus unserer Forschung, was Litlisten mit #Dekolonialisierung zu tun haben und warum es dringend mehr Diversität in der Lehre braucht: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fok...

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Anika Oettler @anikaoettler.bsky.social · Nov 4

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