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
-
Lecture by Franziska Moosmann at the Katholische Akademie des Bistums Hildesheim
Our RTG 2686 fellow Franziska Moosmann will present her research as part of her doctoral project on May 5, 2026, in the lecture series Katholische Akademie des Bistums Hildesheim. Her lecture is titled “Missionary Collections from Colonial Contexts: Historical and Decolonial Approaches.” Further information and […]
-
Contradictions Festival – 10 years WOC
On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the interdisciplinary collaborative research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) is organizing the WOC Contradictions Festival from November 10–14, 2025, in cooperation with the Bremen DFG Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies, the Berlin DFG Research Training Group 2638 Normativity, Critique, Change, the Bremen International Graduate School of Social…
-
RTG member Klaas Anders featured in two new podcast episodes on his research
RTG member Klaas Anders can currently be heard in two podcasts: In the podcast of the Institute of History at the University of Bremen, he talks about the migration experiences of signatories of Charter 77 and their new beginnings in Vienna. He is also a guest on the Radio Prague International podcast, where he discusses the Czechoslovak…
Publications
-
-
Assoziationen, die wir mit bestimmten Einzelsprachen verbinden, sind nicht nur von unseren persönlichen Erfahrungen und (Sprach-)Kenntnissen, sondern auch von diskursiv vermittelten Attributen, die Sprachen zugeschrieben werden, geprägt. Auch wenn man eine Sprache nicht selbst beherrscht, verbindet man mit ihr möglicherweise bestimmte Vorstellungen, beispielsweise hinsichtlich ihrer […]
-
Ausgehend von Fragen nach dem Status von Beziehung/Relationalität in der Linguistik werden entlang ausgewählter Lektüren von Henri Bergson, Édouard Glissant und Donna Haraway Vorschläge für vier Koordinaten einer Postmigrantischen Linguistik als Linguistik der Beziehungen umrissen. Die Beschäftigung erfolgt vor dem Hintergrund allgemeiner Fragen an die […]
Events
-
Rainer Stummer — (Un)Building Contradiction(s) – Postfoundationalism, Ecology, Movement Kim Wagener — Berührung, Widerspruch, Differenz. Aporien tastend-experimentellen Schreibens nach Jean-Luc Nancy
-
Franziska Moosmann — Widersprüchliche Artefakte. Missionarische Sammlungen zwischen kolonialer Wissensproduktion und dekolonialer Gegenarchivierung
-
This collaborative workshop will engage in a close reading and critical analysis of primary source documents (in English translation) from 4 key moments in post-World War II German history: an excerpt of a transcript from a focus group discussion among working-class women held in 1950 in Frankfurt/Main, in which themes of Nazi sexual politics and…
The members of the RTG
The Research Training Group is run by thirteen 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.
