DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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Integrating Cultural Heritage and Climate Policy? Insights from UNESCO World Heritage Cities

We explore how cultural heritage impacts climate policies in UNESCO World Heritage cities, where changes to the built environment are limited. Drawing on qualitative case study research in the German World Heritage cities of Lübeck, Regensburg, and Bamberg, we reveal that significant departmental conflicts between […]

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Konstantinos Chatziandreou

2026
Cancel Culture als Positionierungsvehikel im semantischen Kampf um Wissenschaftsfreiheit

When debating academic freedom in Germany, the term cancel culture, originating from North-American contexts, is commonly used to express concerns about a threat to academic freedom as posed by a narrowing of boundaries of discourse. In the semantic battels regarding Wissenschaftsfreiheit (academic freedom), this perspective […]

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Lara Herford

2026
Reconciliation in the Liminal Space between the Secular and the Divine

In this paper, we analyze the term reconciliation as well as Versöhnung in political and religious communication. Against this background, we are interested in how far political as well as religious dimensions of the terms come together, which we describe as a process of conceptual […]

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Bär, Christian, Lara Herford & Jonas Trochemowitz

2026
Postmigrantische Linguistik

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 […]

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Ingo H. Warnke

2026

idea of democratic critique

“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff

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

earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau

driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka

power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel