Vacancy of the Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies

At the University of Bremen, the Research Training Group 2686 funded by the German Research Foundation is offering

  • 13 positions as
  • Research Fellow, Doctoral Candidate (f/m/d)
  • Salary 13 TV-L (75% part time)

tobe filled as of June 1, 2025 for a fixed term of 3 years—subject to project or funding approval.

The interdisciplinary research training group brings together empirical cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, interdisciplinary linguistics, literary studies (Romance studies, North American and postcolonial literatures, German medieval and early modern studies), law, human geography, political science, Eastern European history, philosophy, and religious studies.

We invite applications relating to one or more of the research areas listed.

You can also find the vacancy here.

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

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

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“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

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city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”

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