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

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

Coordination

Former Coordination

PD Dr. Ehler Voss

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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driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka

Is contradiction eurocentric?

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

sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka

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