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In the DFG-funded Research Training Group 2686 “Contradiction Studies – Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of the Contradictory”, the Faculty 09- Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen is seeking to fill the position of an Academic Coordinator (Salary group 13 TV-L with 100% of the weekly working time: 39.2 hours per week) for the duration of the externally funded project until 30/11/2026. Please finde more Information on the University Homepage.

Join the 21st Conference of the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries! The CfP for the conference on the topic „Territory, Tension, and Taboo: Canada in Crisis“ is now open.  Territory as a historical, legal, geographical, or cultural concept has […]

Dr. Deborah Nyangulu and Dr. Jana Weiss convened the ‚Black Atlantic Affordances. Contested Memory Cultures` conference at the University of Texas at Austin from Feb 23 – 25. The event featured a range of speakers who engaged with, among others, questions of Black freedom, memory […]

June 27-28, 2024 | University of Bremen Conference of the Section „Politics and Gender“in the German Political Science Associationin cooperation with the DFG Research Training Group „Contradiction Studies“ and the Research Network „Worlds of Contradiction“ On the occasion of the Section’s 30th anniversary, the 15th Speakers’ […]

Deborah Nyangulu was interviewed by Sandra Folie & Gianna Zocco in the journal CompLit (pp. 187-191) for the issue on “Sketches of Black Europe in African and African Diasporic Narratives”.

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:

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 from September 7-22, 2023.

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).

An overview of the program of the RTG Colloquium in the winter term can be found here. Detailed information about the individual sessions can be found in time before the individual meeting in the event calendar of this website.

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:

Forschen zwischen Küche und Computer – Jan Dittrich untersucht, wie wir mit Anleitungen lernen.