Frankfurter Stadtgespräche
The research center regularly invites interesting personalities from science, politics or culture to think about and discuss current social issues in an open discussion in Frankfurt’s city centre. With the “Stadtgespräche”, the research network addresses Frankfurt’s urban society and provides impulses at the interface between theory and practice.
The Islamic headscarf between religious freedom, state neutrality and equal rights
Seyran Ateş in conversation with Prof. Dr. Ute Sacksofsky
1. November 2019
The crime of the Holocaust is not time-barred – The tasks of history and justice
PD Dr. Boris Burghardt and Günther Feld in conversation with Prof. Dr. Sybille Steinbacher
25. April 2019
In the name of God? Monotheism and violence
Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide in conversation with Prof. Dr. Harmut Leppin
19. April 2017
Happiness. Fortuna and Felicitas: ambivalences of the art of living
Stefan Sagmeister in conversation with Prof. Dr. Martin Seel
20. April 2016
Migration with misunderstandings. Germans and their citizenship
Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth in conversation with Prof. Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir
February 25, 2016
In the name of the market? TTIP, its arbitration tribunals and the self-restraint of state policy
Prof. Dr. Armin von Bogdandy in conversation with Prof. Dr. R. Alexander Lorz
November 10, 2015
Responsibility, leadership and restraint. Germany’s changing role in foreign policy
Stephan Steinlein in conversation with Prof. Gunther Hellmann
October 16, 2014
The emotional balance of capitalism. Greed for money as a structural principle?
Prof. Ute Frevert in conversation with Prof. Sighard Neckel
September 25, 2014
Who started it all? The sense and nonsense of historical attributions of guilt
Prof. Christopher Clark in conversation with Prof. Christoph Cornelißen
May 26, 2014
Values or economy? Germany’s contribution to international cooperation
Tanja Gönner in conversation with Prof. Rainer Klump
March 19, 2014
Virtuous Orient – sinful Occident? Pornography and sexuality between East and West
Hoda Salah in conversation with Prof. Susanne Schröter
12. December 2013
The end of the internet? On the regulation of the digital society
Markus Beckedahl in conversation with Prof. Alexander Peukert
November 20, 2013
Punishment is a must? What we get from criminal law
Minister of State Jörg-Uwe Hahn in conversation with Prof. Klaus Günther
July 3, 2013
This side of Eden. Religion between pontiff and post-secularism
Prof. Michael Sievernich SJ in conversation with Prof. Thomas M. Schmidt
22. May 2013
What does art do? The arts and the current crises
Prof. Carl Hegemann in conversation with Prof. Christoph Menke
March 8, 2012
Democracy in crisis? What intervention the current upheavals require
Dr. Joachim Gauck in conversation with Prof. Klaus Günther
February 4, 2012
What can film do? Images of time and society in contemporary cinema
Sebastian Schipper in conversation with Prof. Martin Seel
December 8, 2011
Growth without end? On the economics of more
Prof. Hans Christoph Binswanger in conversation with Prof. Bertram Schefold and Dr. Toni Föllmi
June 30, 2011
What to do with the protest? On the future of our democracy
Dr. Erhard Eppler in conversation with Prof. Peter Niesen
5. May 2011
Interference wanted?
Thea Dorn in conversation with Prof. Rainer Forst
24. November 2010
The politics of art in a globalized world
Dr. Juliane Rebentisch in conversation with Dr. Clémentine Deliss
16. September 2010
What does tolerance mean? Dealing with cultural and religious difference
Feridun Zaimoglu in conversation with Prof. Rainer Forst
27. May 2010
After the crisis? Learning from the financial crisis: what was and what is to come
Tom Koenigs in conversation with Prof. Reinhard H. Schmidt
March 11, 2010