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
Jan Dittrich
Jonas Trochemowitz

Former Docs

Eva Arnaszus
Samia Mohammed
Brunn Morais
Hanna Schwamborn
Maren Schwarz
Lindokuhle Shabane

name contradiction

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

Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)
Rozena Maart

hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

every day

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

driver

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