Wiss. Mitarbeiter*innen

Summary

• Topic Job Offer — Wiss. Mitarbeiter*innen
• When Jan 11, 2022 to Feb 15, 2022 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
• Where Bremen
• Payment TV-L E 13
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Description

Postdoc Position

Within the Research Training Group 2686 "Contradiction Studies - Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of the Contradictory", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), a position is available at the University of Bremen – subject to approval – as Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) salary group 13 TV-L / 100%. The position is to commence on June 1, 2022 with a duration of up to four years.

Read full announcement here. 

12 PhD positions

Within theResearch Training Group 2686 "Contradiction Studies - Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of the Contradictory", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 12 positions are available at the University of Bremen – subject to approval – as Doctoral Researchers / PhD candidates (f/m/d). Salary group 13 TV-L / 75%. The positions are to commence on June 1, 2022 with a duration of three years and aimed at obtaining a doctorate degree within this timeframe.

Read full announcement here.

Job description
The newly established interdisciplinary research training group comprises Empirical Cultural Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, German and Interdisciplinary Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Romance studies, North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, Medieval and Early Modern German Literary Studies, Jurisprudence, Human Geography, Political Science, East European History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies.

We invite applications related to one or more of the above subjects.

The newly established interdisciplinary research training group comprises Empirical Cultural Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, German and Interdisciplinary Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Romance Studies, North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, Medieval and Early Modern German Literary Studies, Jurisprudence, Human Geography, Political Science, East European History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies.

We invite applications related to one or more of the above subjects.

About the Research Training Group
The Research Training Group (RTG) “Contradiction Studies” brings a variety of academic fields into dialogue. We seek to develop new interdisciplinary perspectives that investigate how people, groups, institutions and states negotiate concepts of contradiction and demands for non-contradiction, and how they might develop ways of dealing with the contradictions of coexistence.

The underlying assumption of the RTG is that the demand to resolve contradictions often is in tension with our everyday lives, where the contradictory remains unresolved. The RTG asks how and under which conditions concepts of the contradictory emerge, when and where they become visible as such and sometimes are even tolerated, and when they are made invisible and/or considered unacceptable. In this context, it is also important to unearth where the imperative of freedom from contradiction has its limits.

Constellations of contradiction, avoidance of contradiction, contradictoriness and practices of dissent are explored systematically from the perspectives of the humanities, social sciences and law, and in dialogue with postcolonially oriented discussions of the cosmopolitization of knowledge production.

We offer our fellows an intellectually stimulating place for further academic qualification and mutual exchange. We understand ourselves as a laboratory of cooperative forms of work in academia with flat hierarchies. In addition to the principles of good scientific practice and an ethos of responsible research, the RTG supports the compatibility of research, family and care, as well as a diversity of perspectives on the basis of respect, mutual recognition and cooperation. Fostering diversity and international exchange are core concerns of the RTG.

For further information on our research program and on the researchers involved in the Research Training Group who are available to supervise your doctoral research, please visit www.contradictionstudies.uni-bremen.de/researchprogram and
www.contradictionstudies.uni-bremen.de/team

The Research Training Group is part of the interdisciplinary research platform "Worlds of Contradiction" (WoC) at the University of Bremen: www.woc.uni-bremen.de

General hints
To apply, please submit the following documents combined into one PDF-file.
Please note that all application documents must be submitted in either German or English. Any document submitted in a third language must be accompanied by a translation into either German or English. Application form (available to download here: www.contradictionstudies.uni-bremen.de/application). See requirements for Postdoc here and for PhD here.

Please send your application with the reference number by February 15th, 2022 (date of receipt), preferably in electronic form (PDF), by e-mail to the spokespersons of the Research Training Group, Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht and Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke.
E-mail address for applications and letters of recommendation: grk2686(at)uni-bremen.de
Please name the PDF containing your application documents as follows: Postdoc_GRK2686_[insert your last name here] or for PhD positions: Application_GRK2686_[insert your last name here]

Alternatively, you can send your application by mail to the following address: University of Bremen, FB9, Graduiertenkolleg Contradiction Studies, Attn: Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht/Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke, Postfach 33 04 40, 28334 Bremen, Germany.

Please refrain from mailing any original documents / please only send copies of diplomas etc. Note that all application material received will be destroyed after the selection process.

Interviews will take place via Zoom, most likely starting in the second half of February and then in March 2022, and are subject to strict data protection requirements.

If you have questions about the RTG or the application process, please take a look at our website and especially at the FAQ for applicants: www.contradictionstudies.uni-bremen.de/application/faq. If you do not find an answer to your question there, please feel free to contact Dr. Birte Löschenkohl: loeschen(at)uni-bremen.de.