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.

Spokespeople of the RTG

Coordination

Student assistants


Former Coordination

  • Portraitfoto PD Dr. Ehler Voss
    PD Dr. Ehler Voss
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
l’illusion d’une unité

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

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
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
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