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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problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
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
limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
earthing

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

Julia Lossau