Dr. Katrin Antweiler is awarded a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship

Dr. Katrin Antweiler, ZF-funded researcher at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research, the DFG Research Training Group 2686 – Contradiction Studies, and founding member of the WoC Lab Pluriversal Memories has been awarded a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Antweiler is hosted by Dr. Duane Jethro at the Department for African Studies at the University of Cape Town and her research focuses on the role of memory politics in German external cultural policy in South Africa.

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name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
articulate

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

Martin Nonhoff
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”

Michi Knecht
driver

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

Norman Sieroka
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