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17.11.2025
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Democracy at a crossroads? The Research Centre Normative Orders invites to discuss future perspectives of democratic orders

The lecture series “At a crossroads? On the Crisis of Democracy” looks at these developments from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the causes, manifestations and dynamics of democratic crises as well as possibilities for the renewal and defense of democratic principles in a globally networked but increasingly fragmented world.

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03.07.2025
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The ’68 movement and its consequences

Panel discussion with the prominent 68ers Rainer Langhans and Christa Ritter and the social philosopher Martin Saar – event organized by the Research Centre Normative Orders at Goethe University

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25.06.2025
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How those persecuted by the Nazi regime experienced West German democracy

Book launch and discussion with the author Stefanie Schüler-Springorum and Michel Friedman

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29.04.2025
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Shaping the future

Between climate change, technology and social responsibility. Lecture series of the research center “Normative Orders” as part of the exhibition “FIXING FUTURES” of the Museum Giersch of the Goethe University

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26.11.2024
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How do you feel about migration?

The 56th Römerberg Talks discuss immigration as a question of national destiny

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07.11.2024
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Police use of force: problems and how to deal with them

Police use of force: problems and how to deal with them. Goethe Lectures Offenbach on November 11, 2024 at the Klingspor Museum

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28.10.2024
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Innovative views on Kant’s philosophy

The American philosopher Christine M. Korsgaard takes over the Dagmar Westberg Visiting Professorship

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26.06.2024
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What does “colonial” mean?

The next event in the “Frankfurter Schule” series is dedicated to the recent intensive discourse on colonialism. The historian and author Dan Diner and the lawyer and journalist Miloš Vec will take part in the discussion

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21.06.2024
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The foundations of public power

Renowned Kant expert Arthur Ripstein speaks at the Frankfurt Lectures of the Research Center Normative Orders

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News from the research center

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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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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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29.01.2026 | Frankfurt

Civil Geopolitics and the Dilemmas of the Democratic State

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von David Owen (Universtiy of Southampton) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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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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12.12.2025 | Anthology

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

Tobias Singelnstein, Christoph Burchard (2025)

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12.12.2025 | Chapter

Was bleibt von der Verantwortung jenseits der Strafe übrig?

Günther, Klaus (2025): „Was bleibt von der Verantwortung jenseits der Strafe übrig?“. In: Zabel Benno; Singelnstein; Tobias und Burchard, Christoph (Hrsg.): Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus. Das Strafrecht und die Vielfalt der Alternativen. Velbrück Wissenschaft, S. 207-241.

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News
11.12.2025

Jonathan White on future thinking in democracies

On the second date of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy". Political scientist White discusses views on the future of democracies. A follow-up report

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04.12.2025

The crisis of democratic theory from a sociological perspective

Sociologist Jenny Brichzin's lecture "Crisis of Democratic Theory? A sociological intervention" opened our lecture series "At the crossroads? On the future of democratic theory". The sociologist criticized the fact that social coexistence has so far been insufficiently addressed in democratic theory. A follow-up report

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03.12.2025 | Journal article

The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment

Džankić, Jelena; Seyfettinoglu, Mira; Shachar, Ayelet; Vink, Maarten; Baaren, Luuk van der (2025): „The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment“. In: Comparative Political Studies, OnlineFirst.

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