Goethe Lectures Offenbach – Archive


October 24, 2019, 7 pm

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)

News from the research center

Event
20.03.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

40 Jahre Schengen-Raum

Colloquium

Der 1984 geschlossene Schengen-Vertrag schuf einen heute 29 Staaten umfassenden Raum ohne Binnengrenzen, doch Migration über die Außengrenzen führte zuletzt zur Wiedereinführung von Kontrollen, auch durch die Bundesregierung ab 8. Mai 2025. Das Walter Hallstein-Kolloquium diskutiert die rechtliche Zulässigkeit, wirtschaftliche Folgen insbesondere für Arbeitsmigration und Arbeitsmarkt sowie die Zukunft des Schengen-Raums.

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News
12.02.2026

Satanist politics and the decline of reason in liberal democracies

For the last time in the winter semester 2025/26, the Research Center hosted the lecture series "Am Scheidepunkt. On the crisis of democracy". At the end, philosopher Michael Rosen from Harvard University presented his concept of "satanic politics" as a variant of the political interpretation of the world.

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News
09.02.2026

On the topicality of the concept of violence based on Camus and Derrida

Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt from the University of St. Gallen gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence as part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", she gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence. Under the title "Defending democracies. On the topicality of the concept of violence in Camus and Derrida", the philosopher discussed forms of violence and revolt and categorized them with regard to a democratic setting.

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Publication
04.02.2026 | Journal article

New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts

Wille, Tobias; Simon, Hendrik; Daase, Christopher; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Wheeler, Nicholas J.; Holmes, Marcus; Rathbun, Brian C.; Acharya, Amitav; Mitzen, Jennifer (2026): „New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts“. In: International Studies Review 28 (1), viaf027.

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News
02.02.2026

States competing for people - David Owen on civil geopolitics

As part of the lecture series "At the Crossroads - The Future of Democracy", David Owen from the University of Southampton presented his concept of civil geopolitics.

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News
20.01.2026

Christine Hentschel on reorientation in catastrophic times

As part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", the sociologist spoke about living in and dealing with catastrophic times. Against the backdrop of the destruction of living conditions, wars, permanent crises and threats to democracy, Hentschel addressed the infiltration of the catastrophic into everyday social life and a changing activist and literary approach to the future.

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Publication
08.01.2026 | Journal article

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes; Laudenbach, Christine (2025): „Gender Differences in Financial Advice“. In: American Economic Review, 115 (12), pp. 4218–4252.

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Publication
19.12.2025 | Anthology

Faszination und Freiheit 

Günther, Klaus; Zabel, Benno (Hrsg.) (2025): Faszination und Freiheit - Gegenwartsdiagnosen im Anschluss an Christoph Menkes Theorie der Befreiung, Weilerswist (Velbrück Wissenschaft).

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Publication
12.12.2025 | Anthology

Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus. Das Strafrecht und die Vielfalt der Alternativen

Tobias Singelnstein, Christoph Burchard (2025)

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