Welcome to the DFG Research Training Group Contradiction Studies
The international and interdisciplinary Research Training Group (RTG) “Contradiction Studies” at the University of Bremen, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has been exploring the formation, negotiation, and explanatory limitations of contradiction. We start from the assumption that the ordering figure of contradiction which includes the imperative of resolving contradiction often stands in a relationship of tension to experiences of the contradictory in everyday life. read more
News
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Fellow Yash Gupta Awarded GAPS Graduate Award
We congratulate RTG 2686 Fellow Yash Gupta on receiving the Graduate Award of the Society for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS). The award will be presented in May 2026 as part of this year’s Annual Conference at Osnabrück University. He receives this award for his outstanding […]
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Workshop contribution by Kim Wagener at FernUniversität Hagen
On 25 June 2026, Kim Wagener will present parts of their doctoral project at the workshop “Phenomenology of Situation and Situated Readings” at FernUniversität in Hagen. Their contribution, titled “Speaking-‘With’”, draws on Nancy to contribute to a phenomenology of situation: Practices of critically situating one’s […]
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Approval of the second funding phase of the Research Training Group »Contradiction Studies«
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has extended funding for the Research Training Group 2686 »Contradiction Studies« for a further four and a half years. We are delighted by this decision, which enables us to continue the successful work of the Research Training Group and to further […]
Publications
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In this paper, we analyze the term reconciliation as well as Versöhnung in political and religious communication. Against this background, we are interested in how far political as well as religious dimensions of the terms come together, which we describe as a process of conceptual […]
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When debating academic freedom in Germany, the term cancel culture, originating from North-American contexts, is commonly used to express concerns about a threat to academic freedom as posed by a narrowing of boundaries of discourse. In the semantic battels regarding Wissenschaftsfreiheit (academic freedom), this perspective […]
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Wissenschaftsfreiheit betrifft uns alle. Sowohl Personen außerhalb der Wissenschaft, insofern sie vom gesellschaftlichen Einfluss wissenschaftlichen Handelns betroffen sind, als auch diejenigen, die selbst wissenschaftlich tätig sind. Dieses Betroffen-Sein tritt im wissenschaftlichen Alltag häufig in den Hintergrund; Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist schließlich nicht das Ziel oder Ergebnis wissenschaftlicher […]
Events
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Is contemporary literature—and storytelling in general—helping to address the accelerating climate and nature crisis, or adding fuel to the fire? Tens of thousands of articles in literary and cultural criticism have approached this question primarily through close readings of environmentally focused novels and films, but […]
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Ellen Masur — Feminist Rewriting als Praktik des Wi(e)dersprechens. Eine empirische Untersuchung von mehrdimensionalen Wirkweisen feministischer Rechtsauslegung Prof. Dr. Yan Suarsana — Wrap-Up
The members of the RTG
The Research Training Group is run by thirteen faculty members of the University of Bremen and is a place of interdisciplinary exchange of empirical cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, German and interdisciplinary linguistics, literary studies (Romance literary and cultural studies, North American and postcolonial literary and cultural studies, Medieval and Early Modern German literary studies), law, human geography, political science, history of Eastern Europe, philosophy, and religious studies.
