Archive

December 1, 2020, 1 to 2 p.m.

The climate system in crisis – political decision-making from a long-term perspective

Welcome note | Welcome
Mark Weinmeister, Secretary of State for European Affairs of the State of Hessen
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Leibniz Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Normative Orders

Keynote | Impulse
Prof. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger, Director General of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research

Panel discussion | Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger, Director General of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
NielsSchuster, European Commission, General Directorate Climate

Presenter | Moderation
Ralph Sina, Head of WDR|NDR-Radiostudio Brussels


November 18, 2020, 1 to 2 p.m.

30 Years of German Unity – Effects on Europe’s Past, Present and Future

Welcome
Lucia Puttrich, Hessian Minister for Federal and European Affairs
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Leibniz Institute Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research/Speaker of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a Globalized World”/Member of the Research Alliance “Normative Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Impulse
Roland Jahn, Head of the Stasi Records Authority (BStU)

Panel discussion
Roland Jahn, Head of the Stasi Records Authority (BStU)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching, Director of the Institute of Contemporary History Munich – Berlin
Prof. Dr. Danuta Hübner, Member of the European Parliament

Moderation
Ralph Sina, Head of WDR/NDR Radio Studio Brussels


February 5, 2020, 12:30 p.m.

The rule of law in the EU – a fundamental value in crisis?

Welcome note | Welcome
Mark Weinmeister
Secretary of State for European Affairs of the State of Hessen
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff
Leibniz Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Speaker Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a globalized world”

Keynote | Impulse
Prof. Dr. Armin von Bogdandy
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor for Public Law at the University in Frankfurt, “Normative Orders”

Panel discussion | Panel discussion
Tanja Fajon
Member of the European Parliament
Prof. Dr. Armin von Bogdandy
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor for Public Law at the University in Frankfurt, “Normative Orders”

Moderator | Moderation
Rebecca C. Schmidt
Executive Manager, Research Center “Normative Orders” Goethe University


November 13, 2019, 12:30 p.m.

Summit nights in Europe: the crisis as a decision-making mode

Welcome note | Welcome
Mark Weinmeister
Secretary of State for European Affairs of the State of Hessen
Prof Dr Nicole Deitelhoff
Leibniz Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Speaker Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a globalized world”

Keynote | Impulse
Prof. Dr. Oliver Ibert
Director, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space

Panel discussion | Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Oliver Ibert
Director, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space
Dr. Carsten Pillath
Director General, European Council
Prof. Dr. Mark Rhinard
Stockholm University, Institute of International Affairs

Presenter | Moderation
Ralph Sina
Head of WDR|NDR-Radiostudio Brussels


October 1, 2019, 12:30 p.m.

30 years since the fall of the Wall – The significance of the fall of the Wall for the development of European societies

Welcome note | Welcome
Mark Weinmeister
Secretary of State for European Affairs of the State of Hessen
Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch
Director of the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam
Rebecca Caroline Schmidt
Managing Director of “Normative Orders”

Keynote | Impulse
Roland Jahn
Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR

Panel discussion | Panel discussion
Roland Jahn
Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR
Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch
Director of the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz
Historian and Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw

Presenter | Moderation
Ralph Sina
Head of WDR|NDR-Radiostudio Brussels


2019

May 15, 2019, 12:30 p.m.

The Crisis of Non-Proliferation – How to Build a New Nuclear Order?

Welcome
Prof. Dr. Alexander Lorz
Hessian Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs

Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff
Leibniz Institute Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research/Speaker of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a Globalized World” and Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”

Impulse
Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase
Leibniz Institute Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research and Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”

Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase
Leibniz Institute Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research and Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”

Elizabeth Konstantinova
European External Action Service

Dr. Tytti Erästö
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Moderation
AstridCorall
NDR/WDR Brussels


February 19, 2019, 12:30 p.m.

European Parliament elections after, during and before the crisis – what now?

Welcome
State Secretary Mark Weinmeister (Hessian State Secretary for European Affairs)
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Leibniz Institute Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research)

Impulse
Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Guérot (Head of the Department of European Politics and Democracy Research, Danube University Krems Founder of the European Democracy Lab)

Moderation
Ralph Sina (Head of the WDR/NDR Radio Studio Brussels)


2018

November 22, 2018, 12:30 p.m.

Europe’s crisis as a crisis of its added value?

Welcome
State Secretary Mark Weinmeister (Hessian State Secretary for European Affairs)

Dr. Stefan Kroll (Leibniz Institute Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research)

Impulse
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Heinemann (Centre for European Economic Research)

Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Heinemann (Centre for European Economic Research)

Jo Leinen (Member of the European Parliament)

Benjamin Hartmann (European Political Strategy Center (EPSC))

Moderation
Charlotte Geerdink (Moderator Charly Speaks)


May 30, 2018, 12:30 p.m.

The EU as a global player and the crisis in international security cooperation

Welcome
Friedrich von Heusinger (Head of the Representation of the State of Hesse to the EU)
Rebecca Caroline Schmidt (DFG Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

Impulse
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Leibniz Institute Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Leibniz Institute Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

Oliver Rentschler (TBC) (Deputy Head of Cabinet of Federica Mogherini, Vice-President of the European Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy)

Alexander Kmentt (Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Austria to the Political and Security Committee of the EU)

Moderation
Rebecca Caroline Schmidt (DFG Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)


January 24, 2018, 12:30 p.m.

Transnational research funding and the management of social crises

Welcome
Mark Weinmeister (Secretary of State for European Affairs of the State of Hessen)
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)

Impulse
Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger (Ph.D. WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger (Ph.D. WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
Dr. Wolfgang Burtscher (Deputy Director-General DG Research and Innovation, European Commission)
Dr. Michael Metzlaff (Vice President Corporate Innovation and R&D, Bayer AG)

Moderation
Charlotte Geerdink (Moderation company Charly Speaks)


2017

October 17, 2017, 12:30 p.m.

Humanitarian crises: Roles, responsibilities and risks for Europe

Welcome
Friedrich von Heusinger (Director of the Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU)
Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research)

Impulse
Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück (Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops)

Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück (Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops)
Dr. Nils Behrndt (European Commission Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Neven Mimica, International Cooperation and Development)
Kathrin Schick (Director of VOICE)

Moderation
Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research)


Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 12:30 p.m.

The voice of the people? The rise of populism as a crisis in Europe

Welcome
Friedrich von Heusinger (Head of the Representation of the State of Hesse to the EU)

Rebecca Schmidt (Managing Director of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

Impulse
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research, Professor of International Relations and Theories of Global Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research, Professor of International Relations and Theories of Global Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
Reinhard Bütikofer (Member of the European Parliament)
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Guérot (European Democracy Lab, Danube University Krems)

Moderation
Ralph Sina (Head of the WDR/NDR Radio Studio Brussels)


March 29, 2017, 12:30 p.m.

60 years of the Treaty of Rome – the birth of the European Union Integration despite the crisis?

Welcome
Mark Weinmeister, Hessian State Secretary for European Affairs
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research, Spokesperson of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a Globalized World”

Impulse
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin

Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Christian Calliess, European Centre for Political Strategy, European Commission
Jo Leinen, Member of the European Parliament
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching, Institute of Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin

Moderation
Cornelia Primosch, EU correspondent of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation


2016

September 27, 2016, 12:30 p.m.

EU-Russia relations in times of multiple crises

Welcome
Mark Weinmeister, Hessian State Secretary for European Affairs
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research, Spokesperson of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a Globalized World”

Input and panel discussion
Dr. Anna Veronika Wendland, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
Dr. Jan C. Behrends, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung
Rebecca Harms MEP, Chairwoman of the Greens/European Free Alliance Group

Moderation
Prof. Dr. Peter Haslinger, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe


February 23, 2016, 12:30 p.m.

European solidarity in the crisis

Welcome
Lucia Puttrich, Hessian Minister for Federal and European Affairs
Prof. Dr. Klaus Dieter Wolf, Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research, Spokesperson of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a Globalized World”

Lecture
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin

Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Rebecca Harms Member of the EP and leader of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament)
Dr. Janusz Lewandowski, Member of the European Parliament, former EU Commissioner (2009-2014)

Moderation
Prof. Dr. Klaus Dieter Wolf

News from the research center

News
30.06.2025

Article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich published in EJPT

The article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich has just been published open access in the European Journal of Political Theory (EJPT). Ulrich brings the perspective of radical realism into a productive dialog with Adorno's critical theory.

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News
30.06.2025

Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay awarded the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose University Prize 2025

Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay (Junior Professor of Ethnology with a focus on Political Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and former postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University) receives the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose University Award 2025 in the category Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Publication
25.06.2025 | Online article

Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?

Ulrich, Amadeus (2025): Ideology and suffering: What is realistic about critical theory? European Journal of Political Theory, 0(0).  https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851251351782

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News
24.06.2025

New series “Vertrauensfragen” in the Frankfurter Rundschau initiated by Hendrik Simon

Democracy thrives on debate - if it serves the joint search for solutions. There is often a problem with this cooperation. The new FR series “Vertrauensfragen”, initiated by Hendrik Simon (Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) Frankfurt location at Goethe University's Research Centre Normative Orders ), examines why this is the case and how we can do better.

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Publication
23.06.2025 | Working Paper

Untrustworthy Authorities and Complicit Bankers: Unraveling Monetary Distrust in Argentina

Moreno, Guadalupe (2025): “Untrustworthy Authorities and Complicit Bankers: Unraveling Monetary Distrust in Argentina”. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Discussion Paper 25/3.

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News
22.05.2025

Does deliberative democracy have a future in the age of oligarchs, autocrats and patriarchs?

On June 3, Prof. Simone Chambers will give a lecture on the value of democracies and the future of the form of government.

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Publication
19.05.2025 | Anthology

Klimaethik. Ein Reader

Sparenborg, Lukas; Moellendorf, Darrel (Hrsg.) (2025) : Klimaethik. Ein Reader. Suhrkamp.

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News
19.05.2025

What can a baroque tapestry tell us about colonial iconography?

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.

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