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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Mercator Fellow Graham Priest will be visiting the RTG from December 1-5, 2023
We are looking forward to an intensive cooperation with Graham Priest (City University of New York), who has planned the following events during his time in Bremen:
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Elephants in the Room: Autumn/Spring School on Post/Colonial Memory Politics
Parts of the DFG Research Training Group Contradiction Studies and students of the MA Transcultural Studies participated in the Autumn/Spring School Elephants in the Room: Situating Post/Colonial Histories and Imaginaries in Cape Town and Johannesburg… read more
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Theorieblog.de reports about panel uncertainty of a ‘natural’ order
Blogpost about Panel 5 Verunsicherung einer ’natürlichen‘ Ordnung. (Queer-)feministische Un/Gewissheiten at the Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty Congress. With contributions by Helen Stephan and Carolin Zieringer (RTG Contradiction Studies).
Publications
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Mythos Zuhören – Bemerkungen zur Diskursphänomenologie gerichteter Aufmerksamkeit
Based on the omnipresence of euphemistic talk about listening, the essay examines the network of relationships between listening and discourse. A widespread myth, in which listening is understood in isolation as a replicative action and… read more
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Multidirektionale Lexik in der Diskursgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts
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Aristokratie der Buchreligionen? Heilige Schriften aus religionswissenschaftlicher Perspektive
Events
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Wenn Erinnerungspolitik zur Zukunftspolitik wird
Dr. Katrin Antweiler will be a guest at the research colloquium of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the TU Berlin on 29 November at 6 pm, where she will speak about her recently… read more
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Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen von Straßenumbenennungen in Bremen
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Linguistische Widerspruchsforschung
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.
