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

Workshops

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Past Events

Archiving and Sharing Qualitative Research Materials with Qualiservice

Workshop for (post-)doctoral students by the DFG Research Training Group “Contradiction Studies – Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory” with the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and the Research Data Center (RDC) Qualiservice. Dr. Jan-Ocko Heuer and Dr. Michaela Rizzolli (RDC […]

Workshop

04/21/2023

10:00 am–3:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 0030
Good Scientific Research Practice

The Workshop provided by DFG will held in German and translated to English.

Workshop

01/25/2023

9:15 am–3:30 pm

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

An event by the DFG Research Training Group 2686 “Contradiction Studies –Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory” in cooperation with theBremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and the Research Data Center (RDC) Qualiservice. Presentations will be in English, but contributions can be […]

Workshop

12/07/2022

9:00 am–3:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 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

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

paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf