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

Fellow Yash Gupta Awarded GAPS Graduate Award

We congratulate RTG 2686 Fellow Yash Gupta on receiving the Graduate Award of the Society for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS). The award will be presented in May 2026 as part of this year’s Annual Conference at Osnabrück University.

He receives this award for his outstanding Master’s thesis titled “ऐसा कैसा प्यार? / Asexual Intimacies and the Erotics of Feminine Relating in Desi Asexual Discourses Online.” The thesis was completed at the University of Münster.

With the Graduate Award, GAPS recognizes excellent academic achievements in the field of Anglophone postcolonial studies. The Research Training Group is pleased about this special recognition and congratulates Yash Gupta on this achievement.

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earthing

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

relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”
Ingo H. Warnke

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

coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana

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