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

Events

All Events Panel Discussions Book Launches Panels Talks Conferences Workshops Exhibitions Other

Past Events

Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums

Katrin Antweiler

Katrin Antweiler

Book Launch

04/25/2023

6:15 pm

U Bremen CART 067 & online
Archiving and Sharing Qualitative Research Materials with Qualiservice

Workshop for (post-)doctoral students by the DFG Research Training Group “Contradiction Studies – Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory” with the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and the Research Data Center (RDC) Qualiservice. Dr. Jan-Ocko Heuer and Dr. Michaela Rizzolli (RDC […]

Workshop

04/21/2023

10:00 am–3:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 0030
Legal Regulation of Responsibility and Liability in Transnational Textile Supply Chains

Lilli Hasche Guest Comments Prof. Dr. Anna Beckers | Maastricht University Dr. Laura Knöpfel | Basel

Prof. Dr. Anna Beckers (Maastricht University), Dr. Laura Knöpfel & Lilli Hasche (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Talk

04/20/2023

4:15 pm–5:45 pm

U Bremen GW1 A 0150 & online
Beyond in/dependence. Freedom in a World of Contradictions

Samia Mohammed Comments Fellow: Jan Bartsch Guest: Prof. Dr. Francesca Raimondi | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Samia Mohammed

Internal, Talk

04/20/2023

6:00 pm–7:30 pm

U Bremen GW1 A 0150 & online
Opening of the exhibition: Ostwärts in den Westen. Die Flucht von DDR-Bürger:innen über die bundesdeutsche Botschaft in der ČSSR im September 1989

Opening of the exhibition with a guided tour by the curators Natalia Wollny & Klaas Anders

Natalia Wollny („Euthanasie“-Gedenkstätte Lüneburg e. V.) & Klaas Anders (RTG Contradiction Studies | Bremer Bündnis für Deutsch-tschechische Zusammenarbeit e.V.)

Other

04/17/2023

7:00 pm–9:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2
World Café Interfaces Retreat

Preparation of the Interfaces Retreat

Internal

04/13/2023

4:15 pm–5:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030
Mehr als “einige Morgen Schnee”. Französische Literaturen, Kulturen und Sprachvielfalt in Kanada

In einem Seminar der Frankoromanistik haben sich Studierende mit der französisch-sprachigen Literatur aus Kanada mit einem besonderen Blick auf die Rolle des Nordens auseinandergesetzt. Das Ergebnis? Die Literatur aus Kanada ist vielfältig, kommt aus ganz unterschiedlichen Gebieten und überrascht mit ihrer Kreativität und Diversität an Themen.

In Kooperation mit der SuUB ist daraus eine Ausstellung entstanden, bei der einige Werke aus dem Bestand der Bibliothek gezeigt werden: eine hervorragende Gelegenheit, um mehr über dieses Land zu erfahren, das definitiv mehr als nur „einige Morgen Schnee“ zu bieten hat.

Jody Danard

Exhibition

03/14/2023–05/12/2023

SuUB
“Perdre le Nord“: literary subject constructions in the narrative imagined space of the North in French Canadian contemporary literatures from Québec, Acadie and autochtonous territories

Jody Danard (RTG Contradiction Studies), Helen Stephan (RTG Contradiction Studies), Prof.Dr. Karen Struve (University Bremen)

Internal, Talk

01/31/2023

2:30 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030
Longing and Belonging in Black African diasporic Literature written in French and Spanish

Nelson Sindze Wembe (RTG Contradiction Studies), Maren Schwarz (RTG Contradiction Studies), Dr. Dorothy Odartey-Wellington (University of Guelph)

Internal, Talk

01/31/2023

4:30 pm–6:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030
Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis | Good Scientific Research Practice

The Workshop provided by DFG will held in German and translated to English.

Workshop

01/25/2023

9:15 am–3:30 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online

driver

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

sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka

ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht

hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf