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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Cooperation with the University of the Western Cape on Decentering the Museum and Postcolonial Politics of Memory – Visit of three doctoral students to Bremen
Between the end of November 2023 and mid-January 2024, PhD students Brent Abrahams, Vuyisanani Am and Dean E. Stephanus from the Department of Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town… read more
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Exploring Contradictions beyond Contradiction
Recap of the 1st International Conference on Contradiction Studies From February 11 to 14, 2025, the Research Training Group 2686—funded by the German Research Foundation—hosted the 1st International Conference on Contradiction Studies at the University… read more
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RTG-Member Jody Danard awarded with DAAD-Prize
The Research Training Group Contradiction Studies proudly announces the awarding of this year’s DAAD prize to RTG member and doctoral fellow Jody Danard. Danard receives the DAAD Prize for her outstanding academic achievements and her… read more
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Press Training with the Aktivistinnen-Agentur at the RTG Contradiction Studies
On November 29th, an interview and podium training with Emily Laquer from the Aktivistinnen-Agentur took place on the premises of the RTG Contradiction Studies. During this training, the members of the RTG were able to… read more
Publications
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Declarative Speech Acts as a Discursive Practice of Disruption. An Analysis of Same-Sex Marriage and Blessings in German Church Discourse.
This paper discusses how the category of declarative speech acts can be used in the context of discourse analysis. For this purpose, similarities as well as differences between the works of Searle and Foucault are… read more
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Transnational-Resilient Democracy. On the Conditions for Party Ban Proceedings in Interlegal Systems
On 13.11.2024, a group of 113 members of the German Bundestag tabled a motion to initiate proceedings to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The debate to date has focused on the requirements and… read more
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Staged Dissent – »Change My Mind« as a Vehicle of Instrumental Deliberation within the Identitäre Bewegung Österreich
In this paper Jonas Trochemowitz and Lara Herford aim to analyze the talking format of Change my Mind by Steven Crowder and its adaptation by the former spokesperson of the right-wing extremist group Identitäre Bewegung… read more
Events
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Ivan Kalmar, White But Not Quite: Is There Anti-Eastern European Racism?
Discussion in English In White But Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt (2022), Ivan Kalmar examines the political and cultural developments in Central Europe, in particular the emergence of illiberal movements in post-communist societies such… read more
The members of the RTG
The Research Training Group is run by twelve 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.
