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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Publication of the Working Paper “Einrichtungsantrag Contradiction Studies – Konstellationen, Heuristiken und Konzepte des Widersprüchlichen, Lesefassung”
The Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies has published a working paper last year. It can be found here.
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Queerness als Teil der Schöpfung. Jonas Trochemowitz at the Science Slam
In a short presentation of 10 Minutes for a lay audience, Jonas Trochemowitz presented his research at the popular-scientific event Science Slam.
Publications
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Zur Ästhetik von Widerspruchspraxen am Beispiel des feministischen Abtreibungsdiskurses in den 1970er Jahren
In this article, the proposal is made to analyse practices of contradiction with regard to their aesthetic potential. On the one hand, this is intended to demonstrate the diverse possibilities of contradiction studies and, on… read more
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Politisierung als Delegitimation. Zur anti-genderistischen Darstellung und Lebenswirklichkeit queer-christlicher Gottesdienste
This article aims to critically examine anti-genderist representations of queer Christian church services by analyzing social media data and discourse ethnographic field research. In this regard, the concept of ‘anti-genderism’ is first discussed with reference… read more
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Review: Nationsbildung und Außenpolitik im Osten Europas
Review of the edited volume Nationsbildung und Außenpolitik im Osten Europas. Nationsbildungsprozesse, Konstruktionen nationaler Identität und außenpolitische Positionierungen im 20. und 21. Jahr-hundert (ed. Bianka Pietrow-Ennker).
Events
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ESF Conference „Territory, Tension & Taboo“
21st Conference of the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries! Territory as a historical, legal, geographical, or cultural concept has become an essential interdisciplinary nexus within the field of… read more
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Was ist „Osteuropa“? Geschichte und Gegenwart eines widersprüchlichen Konzepts
Since the total invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, the term “Eastern Europe” has been omnipresent – whether in social media posts or feature articles: Everyone is talking about “Eastern Europe”. But what does… 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.
