Welcome to the DFG Research Training Group Contradiction Studies
The international and interdisciplinary Research Training Group (RTG) “Contradiction Studies” at the University of Bremen, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has been exploring the formation, negotiation, and explanatory limitations of contradiction. We start from the assumption that the ordering figure of contradiction which includes the imperative of resolving contradiction often stands in a relationship of tension to experiences of the contradictory in everyday life. read more

News
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Job advertisements for student assistants
30.08.2023 . The Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies is looking for several student assistants as soon as possible:
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Our Mercator Fellow Rozena Maart will be visiting the RTG from June 18-30, 2023.
We are looking forward to an intensive cooperation with Rozena Maart (U KwaZulu-Natal), who has planned the following events during her time in Bremen:
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Our Fellow Jan Dittrich presents his work in the up2date online magazine
Forschen zwischen Küche und Computer – Jan Dittrich untersucht, wie wir mit Anleitungen lernen.
Publications
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Widerspruchsresponsive Nachhaltigkeit
Das Freihandelsabkommen der EU mit Neuseeland verpasst die Etablierung eines kritischen Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs.
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Agency and Incentives of Diasporic Political Influencers on Facebook Malawi
This article examines the agency and incentives that drive the activism of diasporic political influencers on “Facebook Malawi,” an online imagined political community. In their seminal work on “social media dissidents” and “social media self-made… read more
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Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums
This book provides an analysis of the forms and functions of Holocaust memorialisation in human rights museums by asking about the impact of global memory politics on how we imagine the present and the future…. read more
Events
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Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty
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Zur Methode der Widerspruchsoffenheit
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„Das muss eine Demokratie aushalten“: Eine feministische Problematisierung des Aushalten-Könnens von ‚Ungewissheit und Widerspruch‘
A the Conference Politische Theorie in Zeiten der Unsicherheit.
The members of the RTG
The Research Training Group is run by twelve faculty members of the University of Bremen and is a place of interdisciplinary exchange of empirical cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, German and interdisciplinary linguistics, literary studies (Romance literary and cultural studies, North American and postcolonial literary and cultural studies, Medieval and Early Modern German literary studies), law, human geography, political science, history of Eastern Europe, philosophy, and religious studies.
