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

Internal Events

Alle Termine Panel Discussions Book Launches Panels Talks Conferences Workshops Exhibitions Other

Toolbox #9 – Textuality of Contradiction: from Rhetorics to Lyotard

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

Prof. Karen Struve & Prof. Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies) with Prof. Rozena Maart (KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, ZAF | Mercator Fellow at RTG 2686)

Internal

11/11/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
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 – Research Data Management

Further information will follow shortly.

RTG Contradiction Studies

Workshop, Internal

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

Workshop, Internal

12/04/2025

U Bremen GRA 2 0030
Toolbox #13 – Internal Workshop

RTG 2686 Contradiction Studies

Workshop, Internal

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

limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel

ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht

decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf

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

name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke