Home›Veranstaltungen›What do you think about migration – immigration as a question of national destiny?
  • This event has passed.
07.12.2024 | Frankfurt am Main
Lecture, Panel Discussion

What do you think about migration – immigration as a question of national destiny?

 

56th Römerberg Talks
Immigration currently seems to be Germany’s most important problem. Elections are won or lost on this issue. The fear of growing crime, terrorist attacks by foreign perpetrators and the alarm cries of overburdened municipalities form a nightmare scenario with which populist parties are driving the political establishment before them.

Anyone who still advocates a welcoming culture, defends the unrestricted right to asylum or points to the importance of migration for the labor market and social systems is denounced as unworldly and blind to the concerns of a section of the population.

Time for a fact check and more differentiation: what is justified concern, what is media hype, what is politically motivated scaremongering? What do the crime statistics say? What are the possibilities, opportunities and limits of politically shaped immigration? And what happens to a society whose awareness of the problem is narrowed down to the issue of containing unwanted migration?

Moderation: Hadija Haruna-Oelker and Alf Mentzer

The event is open to the public. Admission is free.

Program (pdf): Here…

Program

10.00 a.m.
Greeting

10.15 a.m.
Volker Heins
The Trump effect. A turning point for the migration society?

11.00 a.m.
Gina Wollinger and Thomas Hestermann
About fear: migration and crime

12.00 p.m.
Manuela Bojadžijev
Solidarity and democracy. In defense of the migration society

12.30 p.m.
Lunch break

1.30 p.m.
Gilda Sahebi and Thomas Biebricher
Progressive, conservative, right-wing. Polarization in the media and political sphere

End around 14:30

Unfortunately omitted: Ulrich Herbert “Migration Processes in Europe after 1945 – A Critical Comparison” and Aladin El-Mafaalani “One-sided Discourse and Complex Truths – The Migration Debate”

Zeit

7. December 2024, 10:00-14:30

Ort

Chagallsaal of the Schauspiel Frankfurt
New Mainzer Str. 17
Frankfurt am Main, 60311 + Google Map

Organisation

Research Centre Normative Orders of the Goethe University
Römerberggespräche e.V.

News from the research center

Event
22.04.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

New Directions in Terrorism and Political Violence Research

Lecture Series

Lecture Series mit Vorträgen von Orla Lynch, Leena Malkki und Tore Bjørgo veranstaltet vom Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) in Kooperation mit dem Forschungszentrum „Normative Orders“ und der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

more information ›
Event
12.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus

Book Presentation

Buchvorstellung mit Christine Graebsch, Katrin Höffler, Jochen Bung & Ronen Steinke

more information ›
Event
28./29.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice

Conference

Following the research focus of the Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme, funded by Höppsche Stiftung, the "Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice" conference places a particular emphasis on themes such as the human right to health, political activism and health justice issues, and problems of structural injustice and vulnerable populations in health care. Keynote lectures by Jonathan Wolff and Kanchana Mahadevan.

more information ›
Publication
26.03.2026 | Monograph

The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective

Duve, Thomas; Herzog, Tamar (eds.): The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 (portugiesisch 2025; spanisch 2026).

more information ›
Event
14.07.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Democracy Over Time and the Climate Crisis

Lecture Series

Vortrag von Anja Karnein (Binghamton). Die Vortragsreihe untersucht Fragen der Klimakrise als Herausforderungen für demokratische Gesellschaften und konzentriert sich auf Themen wie politische Legitimität, Widerstand gegen fossile Brennstoffe und die Interessen künftiger Generationen. Sie wird organisiert von Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf und Dr. Lukas Sparenborg.

more information ›
Event
10.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Capital Investment, Inequality, and State Power in a Time of Climate Emergency

Lecture, Lecture Series

The lecture series examines questions of the climate crisis as challenges for democratic
societies and focuses on issues of political legitimacy, fossil fuel resistance, and the interests
of future generations.

more information ›
Event
13.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Failed States and Cloudy skies: Tipping Points, Overshoot and Permanent Emergency, after America

Lecture Series

The lecture series examines questions of the climate crisis as challenges for democratic
societies and focuses on issues of political legitimacy, fossil fuel resistance, and the interests
of future generations.

more information ›
Event
22.04.2026

Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change

Lecture, Lecture Series

Lecture by Ross Mittiga (SOAS London). The lecture series examines questions of the climate crisis as challenges for democratic societies and focuses on issues of political legitimacy, fossil fuel resistance, and the interests of future generations. It is organized by Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf and Dr. Lukas Sparenborg.

more information ›
Event
23.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Wehrhafte Demokratie: Chancen und Grenzen des Parteiverbots

Panel Discussion

Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, ob und unter welchen verfassungsrechtlichen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Voraussetzungen ein Verbot einer demokratisch gewählten, rechtsnational ausgerichteten Partei als legitimes Mittel in Betracht gezogen werden kann oder nicht. Ausgehend von den normativen Grundlagen des Parteienverbots im Grundgesetz, möchten wir die hohen rechtlichen Hürden und demokratietheoretischen Spannungsfelder dieser Maßnahme erörtern – zwischen Pluralismus und Selbstverteidigung, zwischen Meinungsfreiheit und Schutz der freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung.

more information ›