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

06-WOC-Contradictions-Festival_Early-Career-Workshop

Early Career Vernetzungsworkshop

Other, Workshop

WOC GradNet

11/14/2025
9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Haus der Wissenschaft

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.

Details about the event program can be found here.
Please register by November 1, 2025 by sending an email to Lara Herford at the following address: gradnet[at]uni-bremen.de.

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l’illusion d’une unité

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

decolonial scholarship

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

every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel

diversity and plurality

“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel

hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano