Cornelia Goethe Colloquia

Knowledge migrates. It diffuses, is modulated, and translated. It becomes embedded in cultural and social contexts, interwoven with contingencies, yet remains embedded in social power relations. More than ever, the context of current social developments reveals how closely the migrations of knowledge are linked to the possibilities of epistemic agency. Questions from the fields of feminist and postcolonial philosophy and the critique of science are thus regaining significance right now: Who can act as a subject of knowledge and be heard, and how? Which experiences are invoked in which contexts? And what claims to validity are tied to them?