Management Team

The academic coordinator and the office manager form with the spokesperson-duo the RTG leadership team. They are responsible, respectively, for the strategic and conceptual coordination as well as the administration of the RTG. For the doctoral and post-doctoral fellows they are always the first persons to contact with any question that may come up.

Coordination

Spokespeople of the RTG

Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht

Spokesperson of the RTG

Social and Cultural Anthropology
Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke

Spokesperson of the RTG

German and Interdisciplinary Linguistics

Student assistants

Former Coordination

PD Dr. Ehler Voss

Former Student assistants

Lera Snegireva
Kinga Wiacek
Greta Blotevogel

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

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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

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

every day

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

Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf

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