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 Student assistants

Kinga Wiacek

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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decolonial scholarship

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

sustained engagement

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

name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke

earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau

articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff