DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

Events

All Events Panel Discussions Book Launches Panels Talks Conferences Workshops Exhibitions Other

Early Career Vernetzungsworkshop

Early Career Networking Workshop as part of the 10th anniversary of the WOC Contradictions Festival with members of the WOC Graduate Network (WOC GradNet), the DFG Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies, the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), the Institute for Social Research (IfS) and the GRK 2638 Normativity, Critique, Change

WOC GradNet

Other, Workshop

11/14/2025

9:00 am–5:00 pm

Haus der Wissenschaft
Toolbox #10 – Language, Discourse and Contradiction

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

Dr. Anna Mattfeldt & Jonas Trochemowitz (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

11/18/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Workshop — How to Handle Your (Digital) Research Data Responsibly

Further information will follow shortly.

Dr. Michaela Rizzolli & Nele Fuchs

Internal, Workshop

11/20/2025

9:00 am–1:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030
Toolbox #11 – The Great Contradiction of Religious Studies and the Cultural Turn

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

Prof. Yan Suarsana (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

11/25/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #12 – Spaces/Geographies/Contradictions

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

Prof. Julia Lossau (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

12/02/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Kick off Workshop – Peer Mentoring

Further information will follow shortly.

Dr. Christine Kohistani

Internal, Workshop

12/04/2025

U Bremen GRA 2 0030
Toolbox #13 – Internal Workshop

RTG 2686 Contradiction Studies

Internal, Workshop

12/09/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030
Toolbox #14 – Academic Environment

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

PD Dr. Ehler Voss (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

12/16/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Workspace/Kolloquium Contradiction Studies #1

Workspace/Kolloquium #1 in the winter term 2025/26

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

01/06/2026

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Workspace/Kolloquium #2

Workspace/Kolloquium #2 in the winter term 2025/26

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

01/13/2026

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Workspace/Kolloquium #3

Workspace/Kolloquium #3 in the winter term 2025/26

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

01/20/2026

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Workspace/Kolloquium #4

Workspace/Kolloquium #4 in the winter term 2025/26

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

01/27/2026

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online

Past Events

All about Contradictions

Hintergrundliteratur | Background Readings Angehrn, Emil. 2004. Widerspruch. In Ritter, Joachim, Karlfried Gründer & Gottfried Gabriel (eds.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie 12, 687–699. Darmstadt: WBG. Horn, Laurence R. 2018. Contradiction. In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/contradiction/ (18.05.2022). […]

Michi Knecht & Ingo H. Warnke (SprecherIn des GRK | Spokespersons of RTG)

Internal, Talk

06/02/2022

4:15 pm–7:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”
Ingo H. Warnke

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

l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke

problem to be solved

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

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