Care, Equality and Diversity Board

Mission Statement

The Care, Equality, and Diversity Board (CEDB) of the DFG Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies aims to support and promote the values generally shared in our RTG of Care, Equality and Diversity at all levels in the RTG. Universities, funding institutions and Research Training Groups work under specific historical conditions: They are intertwined with the history of colonial, enslaving, imperialist, patriarchal and heteronormative European policies and actions and their after-effects in the global present. In addition, also at universities unequal treatment and marginalization on the basis of power, gender, class, origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, educational level, age, ability and care work are perpetuated. The CEDB critically reflects these conditions of academic work.

The CED Board

  • ensures the concrete equal treatment of all members of the Research Training Group.
  • works on the basis of recognizing intersectional diversity.
  • supports care work including self-care of all people involved in the RTG.
  • on the basis of equal rights opposes discrimination of any kind and the abuse of power at universities.

Members: Eva Arnaszus & Fiona Makulik (Representative of the Fellows), Kerstin Knopf (Commissioner for Diversity & Care), Michi Knecht & Ingo H. Warnke (Commissioners for RTG Culture), Ehler Voss (Scientific Coordinator, advisory member)

city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”

Julia Lossau
every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”

Gisela Febel
limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau
driver

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

Norman Sieroka