RTG-Member Jody Danard awarded with DAAD-Prize

The Research Training Group Contradiction Studies proudly announces the awarding of this year’s DAAD prize to RTG member and doctoral fellow Jody Danard.
Danard receives the DAAD Prize for her outstanding academic achievements and her special social commitment, for which she was nominated by Prof. Dr. Karen Stuve.

You can find more information here: https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/university-communication-and-marketing/all-news/details/daad-prize-for-jody-danard

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sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”

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
problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
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
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke