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

Post-Docs & Docs

The doctoral and post-doctoral fellows are at the heart of the RTG with their projects on Contradiction Studies from various disciplinary backgrounds of the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, and legal studies. The first cohort comprises more than 20 international docs and post-docs and includes DFG-funded fellows, associated fellows, bridge scholarship holders as well as guests of the RTG.

Post-Docs

Dr. Deborah Nyangulu

Post-Doc

Literary, Media & Cultural Studies

Associated Post-Docs

Associated Docs

Docs

Former Associated Docs

Jan Schulze Buschoff
Jody Danard
Jan Dittrich
Lilli Hasche
Jonas Trochemowitz

Former Docs

Klaas Anders
Eva Arnaszus
Nils Kohlmeier
Fiona Makulik
Samia Mohammed
Brunn Morais
Hanna Schwamborn
Maren Schwarz
Lindokuhle Shabane
Nelson Sindze Wembe

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

every day

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

problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff

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