Application

Job Advertisement: Scientific Coordinator

At the DFG-funded Research Training Group 2686 “Contradiction Studies – Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of the Contradictory”, the Faculty 09 – Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen is seeking to fill the position of an:

Academic Coordinator (Salary group 13 TV-L) with 100% of the weekly working time (39.2 hours per week), for the duration of the externally funded project until 30/11/2026.

The research training group “Contradiction Studies” brings together empirical cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, interdisciplinary linguistics, literary studies (Romance studies, North American and postcolonial literatures, older German literary studies), law, human geography, political science, Eastern European history, philosophy and religious studies.

Please finde more Information on the University Homepage.

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.

idea of democratic critique

“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”

Martin Nonhoff
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”

Norman Sieroka
Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart
sustained engagement

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

Norman Sieroka