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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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
coherence in thought

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

Yan Suarsana
paradox

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

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”

Gisela Febel
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau