Cult of immediacy – authoritarian leaders and regimes
Prof. Dr. Dr. Günter Frankenberg (Professor of Public Law, Philosophy of Law and Comparative Law and Associate Member of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
August 20, 2019, 7 p.m.
How free are we in the digital echo chamber
Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther (Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” and Professor of Legal Theory, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
May 16, 2019, 7 p.m.
From the ‘intellectual-moral turn’ to the exhaustion of German conservatism
PD Dr. Thomas Biebricher (Goethe University Frankfurt / Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
March 20, 2019, 7 p.m.
Crisis and society: A disaster story
Dr. Peer Illner (Postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
October 23, 2018, 7 p.m.
Children’s rights and criticism: Decolonial perspectives on a field of development cooperation
Dr. Franziska Fay (postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
August 15, 2018, 7 p.m.
The crisis of the liberal world order
Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase (Professor of International Organizations at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
April 10, 2018, 7 p.m.
In the name of the law: Intellectual property and copyright in the African context
Prof. Dr. Mamadou Diawara (Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
December 12, 2017, 7 p.m.
Self-optimization. Practice and criticism of taking performance-enhancing psychotropic drugs
Dr. Greta Wagner (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
July 3, 2017, 7 pm
Unpredictability and Fairness: Trump’s basic concepts of international politics
Dr. Stefan Kroll (Postdoc of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
April 27, 2017, 7 pm
The return of borders: Is globalization coming to an end?
With Prof. Dr. Jens Steffek (Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” and Professor of Political Science with a focus on Transnational Governance)
November 9, 2016, 7 pm
Religion as an option. The market of world views With Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Schmidt (Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
April 25, 2016, 7 pm
Salafists and jihadists – the “young savages” of the Ummah
Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter (Professor of Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
February 2, 2016, 7 pm
Europe’s future: single market, citizens’ union and common scientific area
Prof. Dr. Rainer Klump (Rector of the University of Luxembourg, Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
May 21, 2015, 7 p.m.
Burnout. The social suffering of exhaustion
Prof. Dr. Sighard Neckel (Professor of Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
June 23, 2015, 7 p.m.
Who has the power on the Internet?
Dr. Matthias Kettemann (Postdoc of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
October 12, 2015, 7 p.m.
The emergence of writing in Egypt and Mesopotamia
Prof. Dr. Annette Imhausen (Professor of the History of Science of the Pre-Modern World at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
November 26, 2015, 7 p.m.
Banks and human rights – between aspiration and reality
Dr. Manuel Wörsdörfer (Postdoc at the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
Vortrag von Jeffrey Kopstein Professor der Politikwissenschaft an der University of California, Irvine) über die Gefahr einer Erosion des Staates und Wege gegen den Trend zur Zerstörung.
Lecture by Cécile Fromone on May 21. The professor at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, director of the Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center and author will talk about the long-forgotten African origins of iconography and its colonial dimension.
The newsletter from Research Centre Normative Orders collects information on current events, reports, news and publications several times a year. Read the first issue 2025 here.
Racism in the police has various dimensions. In the lecture series “Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies”, three empirical studies on police work will be presented.
Leppin, Hartmut (2025): "Edessa (Fourth Century bc to the Eighth Century ad)". In: Raja, Rubina (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford Academic, pp. 491-506.
A new series of lectures by the research center as part of the “Fixing Futures” exhibition on the implications of climate change and technological progress.
