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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –
Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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  • Prof. Dr. Anja Becker, Universität Bremen. Foto: Pollmeier
    Prof. Dr. Anja Becker
    Associate Faculty Member
    Medieval German Studies
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel
    Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel
    Romance Literatures and Cultural Studies
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischer-Lescano
    Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischer-Lescano
    Law
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht
    Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht
    Spokesperson of the RTG
    Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf
    Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf
    North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Prof. Dr. Pia Annika Lange
    Prof. Dr. Pia Annika Lange
    Associate Faculty Member
    Law
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Lienert
    Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Lienert
    Literature of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Julia Lossau
    Prof. Dr. Julia Lossau
    Human Geogaphy | Urban Geography
  • Portrait photo Dr. Anna Mattfeldt
    Dr. Anna Mattfeldt
    German Linguistics
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Martin Nonhoff
    Prof. Dr. Martin Nonhoff
    Political Theory
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg
    Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg
    History
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Dr. Norman Sieroka
    Prof. Dr. Dr. Norman Sieroka
    Philosophy
  • Prof. Dr. Karen Struve, 1. Sprecherin des GRK 2686Foto (c) WFB Bremen/Jan Rathke
    Prof. Dr. Karen Struve
    Spokesperson of the RTG 2686
    French and Francophone Studies
  • Portrait photo Yan Suarsana
    Prof. Dr. Yan Suarsana
    Global History of Christianity
  • Portrait photo Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke
    Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke
    Spokesperson of the RTG 2686
    German and Interdisciplinary Linguistics
  • Portrait Prof. Dr. Tyler Zoanni
    Prof. Dr. Tyler Zoanni
    Sociocultural Anthropology
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
driver

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

Norman Sieroka
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
diversity and plurality

“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”

Gisela Febel
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