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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earthing

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

Julia Lossau
decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

Kerstin Knopf
driver

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

Norman Sieroka
articulate

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

Martin Nonhoff
paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano