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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Vacancy of the Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies
At the University of Bremen, the Research Training Group 2686 funded by the German Research Foundation is offering 13 positions as Research Fellow, Doctoral Candidate (f/m/d) Salary 13 TV-L (75% part time) tobe filled as… read more
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Philosophy in a World of Multi-Crisis: Deborah Nyangulu in Conversation with Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Between May and July 2024, Prof. Dr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne from Columbia University was a U Bremen WOC International Guest Professor at the Collaborative Research Platform Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) at the University of Bremen…. read more
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Conversation with Professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Our postdoctoral researcher, Deborah Nyangulu, had a wide ranging interview with Senegalese philosopher, Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University and 2024 Worlds of Contradiction visiting professor). The interview ranged from discussing Professor Diagne’s work in philosophy,… read more
Publications
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Radical Democratic Care: eine sorgetheoretische Perspektive auf Praxen des Widersprechens
Contribution to the Journal Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft Zieringer, Carolin. 2024. Radical Democratic Care. Eine sorgetheoretische Perspektive auf Praxen des Widersprechens. In Femina Politica, 02/2024, 76-84.
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Queer-Gottesdienste – Entwicklungstendenzen und Generationsunterschiede
Seit jeher sind Gottesdienste Orte christlicher Gemeinschaftserfahrungen und schaffen durch kollektive Formen liturgischer Praxis ein Gefühl spiritueller Verbundenheit. Hierbei stellt sich jedoch kritisch die Frage, inwiefern dieser Anspruch christlicher Gemeinschaft gelebte Praxis oder uneinlösbares Ideal… read more
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Als Wien zum Zentrum des tschechoslowakischen Dissens‘ wurde
Publication in the “Archivale des Monats” series of the Research Center for Eastern Europe Studies Bremen. Als Wien zum Zentrum des tschechoslowakischen Dissens‘ wurde. Bremen: Forschungsstelle Osteuropa. www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de
Events
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Reading the Present with History. Reading the Past with Anthropology
This talk focuses on an afro-diasporic community located in an Andalusian town (Southern Spain). It concerns a series of families whose identity is linked to the early modern slave trade, while Spanish mainstream society tends… read more
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Academic Freedom and Early Career Researchers. World Café
Moderation: Hagen Steinhauer, Jessica Nuske, Jendrik Nuske, Kevin Kuhlmann, Sarabjeet Kaur, Jonas Trochemowitz What is the role of academic freedom in doctoral studies and scientific qualification? Is academic freedom under threat, and if so, what… read more
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The Entanglements of Race, Gender and Sexuality: South African Indian Contradictions
Durban South African Indian people possess very heteronormative attitudes in their perception and enactment of gender and sexuality. In this talk, Braedon Steven claims that the racialization of Durban South African Indians, marked by British… 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.
