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A major success for supporting early-career researchers: The German Research Foundation (DFG) will continue funding the “Contradiction Studies” Research Training Group for another four and a half years. The program, established in 2022, focuses on the humanities, social sciences, and law and will receive approximately 6 million euros in total funding.
“This continued funding is a fantastic signal for Bremen’s Contradiction Studies,” says Karen Struve, Professor of Franco-Romance Literary Studies, who serves as spokesperson for the program together with Ingo H. Warnke. Warnke, Professor of Interdisciplinary Linguistics, adds: “The Research Training Group will remain a vibrant interdisciplinary space for international early-career researchers studying the dynamics of polarization in contradictory worlds.”
Research Training Groups are interdisciplinary institutions that offer structured doctoral programs. During the first funding period, 36 doctoral researchers and three postdoctoral fellows from 15 countries participated in the Contradiction Studies program. The Research Training Group is part of the Bremen research network platform “Worlds of Contradiction,” which brings together more than 100 members investigating the complexity of contradictions in historical and contemporary contexts.
Professor Jutta Günther, President of the University of Bremen, congratulates Karen Struve, Ingo H. Warnke, and the entire team behind the application: “I warmly congratulate Karen Struve, Ingo Warnke, and everyone involved. Full continued funding for the Research Training Group is a major recognition of their achievements to date and an expression of confidence in the future research of our early-career scholars. Their work is both original and highly relevant to the present day. Engaging with contradictions can help society make sense of current conflicts and crises, rather than hastily dismissing them as simple antagonisms.”
About the Research Training Group “Contradiction Studies – Contradiction and Contradictions in the Dynamics of Polarization”
Resolving contradictions is regarded as an ideal in scholarship, law, and especially logic. The Research Training Group investigates how this ideal relates to the contradictions in everyday life.
In its second funding period, the focus will be on dynamics of polarization that emerge between seemingly opposing positions. The Research Training Group examines how coexistence, social positions, and artifacts can be understood beyond simple binaries. In doing so, it challenges overly simplified views of society and worldviews.
To this end, researchers from the humanities, social sciences, and law work together in an interdisciplinary manner. They also critically examine the widely used notion of a “polarized society.”
Within the Research Training Group, scholars collaborate across disciplines from empirical cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, interdisciplinary linguistics, literary studies (Romance studies, North American and postcolonial literatures, medieval German studies), law, human geography, political science, philosophy, and religious studies.
The program will continue to operate within a global network. Additionally, three renowned Mercator fellows will ensure the program maintains a strong international profile.
Prof. Dr. Karen Struve
Franco-Romance Literary Studies
Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
Spokesperson Research Training Group
University of Bremen
Phone: +49 (0)421 218-68423
Email: struve@uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke
German Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
Spokesperson Research Training Group
Spokesperson Worlds of Contradictions (WoC) collaborative research platform
University of Bremen
Phone: +49 (0)421 218-68290
Email: iwarnke@uni-bremen.de
https://contradictionstudies.uni-bremen.de/en/
https://www.woc.uni-bremen.de/research-centers/
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