Application

Call | Associated Doctoral Candidates

At the University of Bremen, the Research Training Group 2686 funded by the German Research Foundation is offering positions as

  • Associated Doctoral Candidates (f/m/d)

to be filled as of June 1, 2025 for a maximum term of 3 years with the objective of completing a PhD.

[The call is closed.]

Support Structures

The Welcome Center (www.uni-bremen.de/en/research-alliance/welcome-center) is the first point of contact for international fellows; they will support you when relocating to Bremen. Fellows are supplied with information on visa and entry, living in Bremen, relocating with your family, and much more.

The coordinator of the GRK is a point of contact in all matters and supports the RTG’s fellows with advice.

sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”

Norman Sieroka
problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff
coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana
hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”

Michi Knecht