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 #5

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

10/14/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #6

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

10/21/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #7

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

10/28/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #8

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

11/04/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #9

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

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

Internal, Workshop

11/20/2025

9:00 am–1:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030
Toolbox #10

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

11/25/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #11

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

12/02/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #12

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

RTG Contradiction Studies

Internal

12/09/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #13

Toolbox in the winter term 2025/26

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

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

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

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

city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau

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