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

Internal Events

Alle Termine Panel Discussions Book Launches Panels Talks Conferences Workshops Exhibitions Other

Past Events

Toolbox #10 – Language, Discourse and Contradiction

Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #6 in the winter term 2025/26

Dr. Anna Mattfeldt & Jonas Trochemowitz (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

11/18/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #9 – Textuality of Contradiction: from Rhetorics to Lyotard

Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #5 in the winter term 2025/26

Prof. Karen Struve & Prof. Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies) with Prof. Rozena Maart (KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, ZAF | Mercator Fellow at RTG 2686)

Internal

11/11/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #8 – Antagonism

Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #4 in the winter term 2025/26

Prof. Martin Nonhoff (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

11/04/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #7b – Follow up on “Resistance and Counterhegemony”

Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #3b in the winter term 2025/26

Prof. Gisela Febel (GRK2686 Contradiction Studies)

Internal

10/29/2025

2:00 pm–3:30 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030
Toolbox #7a – Contradictions in Dialectics: Hegel and Marx

Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #3a in the winter term 2025/26

Prof. Gisela Febel & Martin Nonhoff (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

10/28/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #6 – Dialetheism

Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #2 in the winter term 2025/26

Prof. Norman Sieroka (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

10/21/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #5 – RTG 2686 | 2

Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #1 in the winter term 2025/26

Prof. Karen Struve & Prof. Ingo H. Warnke (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

10/14/2025

2:00 pm–4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Toolbox #4 – Life/World/Concept

Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025

Tyler Zoanni (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

07/10/2025

2:15 pm–3:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online
Workshop #3 – Data as/in Contradictions: Research, Practices, Politics

Nurhak Polat (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Workshop, Internal

07/08/2025

10:00 am–12:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030
Toolbox #3 – How to decolonize Contradiction | Resistance and Counterhegemony

Toolbox #3a | »The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – How to decolonize Contradiction (Gisela Febel & Kerstin Knopf)

Toolbox #3b | Resistance and Counterhegemony (Gisela Febel)

Gisela Febel & Kerstin Knopf (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Internal

07/03/2025

2:15 pm–3:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online

decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf

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

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

earthing

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

name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke