Professorship of the Cluster of Excellence – Ethnology of Colonial and Postcolonial Orders
Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter
The following research projects were carried out by Prof. Schröter and her colleagues at the Cluster Professorship: “New Discourses on State and Society in the Islamic World” (doctoral group); “Religious and Local Orders in Java. Islam, the re-emergence of tradition and everyday life in Java, Indonesia”, “Feminist discourses in the Islamic world” and “Muslim life in Wiesbaden”.
The work carried out at the Cluster Professorship formed the basis for the founding of the Frankfurt Research Center Global Islam at the Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders in 2014.
News from the research center
When Design Gets Political
Der dritte Tag der Design Policy Days an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt richtet sich an alle, die Design als politische Kraft denken. Gemeinsam mit dem Deutschen Designtag und der World Design Capital 2026 widmet er sich in Roundtables, Projektpräsentationen, Workshops und Ausstellungen der institutionellen Politik: Wie lässt sich Design methodisch, strukturell und normativ in politische Entscheidungsprozesse integrieren – und wie kann Politik selbst als Gestaltungsfeld verstanden werden?
more information ›Dimensionen wehrhafter Demokratie in unsicheren Zeiten
Abich, Leon; Adams, Cosima; Biebricher, Thomas; Britz, Gabriele; Daase, Christopher; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Dönges, Jan; Krause, Leon; Nitzschner, Patrick; Siebert, Hannes; Siefert, Julian; Stephanblome, Isabelle (2026): "Dimensionen wehrhafter Demokratie in unsicheren Zeiten". DemoReg Working Paper 3.1.
more information ›Shifting Visions of Peace and Security
Podiumsdiskussion im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times” mit Lisbeth Zimmermann (Goethe University/Normative Orders), Antonia Witt (PRIF), Siddarth Tripathi (University of Erfurt). Moderation: Jonas Wolff (Goethe University/PRIF/Normative Orders).
more information ›AI, War, and Big Tech
Vortrag von Ingvild Bode (University of Southern Denmark)im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.
more information ›International arms control in a world of uncertainties
Vortrag von Malte Göttsche (TU Darmstadt/PRIF) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.
more information ›Enabling Authoritarianism: UN Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism
Vortrag von Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.
more information ›Deterrence in “Post-Liberal Times“
Vortrag von Maria Mälksoo (Copenhagen University) (Goethe-Universität/PRIF/Normative Orders) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.
more information ›The Case for (Neo)colonialism: Neotrusteeship in International Relations as the ‘Imperial Mind’ of the ‘Colonial Present’
Vortrag von Nick Lemay-Hébert (Manchester University) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.
more information ›Postliberal vs. liberal Perspectives on Peace and Security and Crises
Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase (Goethe-Universität/PRIF/Normative Orders) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.
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