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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Lecture by Franziska Moosmann at the Katholische Akademie des Bistums Hildesheim
Our RTG 2686 fellow Franziska Moosmann will present her research as part of her doctoral project on May 5, 2026, in the lecture series Katholische Akademie des Bistums Hildesheim. Her lecture is titled “Missionary Collections from Colonial Contexts: Historical and Decolonial Approaches.” Further information and […]
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Contradictions Festival – 10 years WOC
On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the interdisciplinary collaborative research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) is organizing the WOC Contradictions Festival from November 10–14, 2025, in cooperation with the Bremen DFG Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies, the Berlin DFG Research Training Group 2638 Normativity, Critique, Change, the Bremen International Graduate School of Social…
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RTG member Klaas Anders featured in two new podcast episodes on his research
RTG member Klaas Anders can currently be heard in two podcasts: In the podcast of the Institute of History at the University of Bremen, he talks about the migration experiences of signatories of Charter 77 and their new beginnings in Vienna. He is also a guest on the Radio Prague International podcast, where he discusses the Czechoslovak…
Publications
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Mehrsprachigkeit wird gleichermaßen gefeiert, problematisiert, gefördert, gefordert und zu verhindern versucht. Sie gilt als Ziel von Bildung, als Übergang zu Einsprachigkeit, als Problem wie auch als Ressource – je nach Kontext, Kombination der Sprachen oder sprachlichen Varietäten und abhängig von deren jeweils zugeschriebenem Prestige. Trotz […]
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We explore how cultural heritage impacts climate policies in UNESCO World Heritage cities, where changes to the built environment are limited. Drawing on qualitative case study research in the German World Heritage cities of Lübeck, Regensburg, and Bamberg, we reveal that significant departmental conflicts between […]
Events
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Ann Imke — Climate Fiction at the Water’s Edge: Negotiating Climate Change Imaginaries Through Literary Space and Perspective Leyla Rommel — Counter-Counter-Cultures: Contested Gender Ideologies: Misogyny, ‘Trad Wife’ Ideals, and the Construction of Masculinity in Digital Discourse
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Rainer Stummer — (Un)Building Contradiction(s) – Postfoundationalism, Ecology, Movement Kim Wagener — Berührung, Widerspruch, Differenz. Aporien tastend-experimentellen Schreibens nach Jean-Luc Nancy
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Franziska Moosmann — Widersprüchliche Artefakte. Missionarische Sammlungen zwischen kolonialer Wissensproduktion und dekolonialer Gegenarchivierung
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.
