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

Publication
12.05.2026 | Online article

Disinhibited Informalization: Talk Radio, Bro Podcasts and the Aesthetics of Populism

This essay by Johannes Völz is a revised and updated translation of “Enthemmte Informalisierung: Talk Radio, Bro-Podcasts und die Ästhetik des Populismus,” WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 22.2 (2025): 3–24. It is published here as part of the b2o Review’s “Stop the Right” dossier.

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Event
20.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Von der Selbstermächtigung zum sozialen Widerstand

Lecture

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Axel Honneth (Frankfurt am Main / New York Columbia University) mit anschließender Diskussion im Rahmen des Rechtstheoretischen Mittwochsseminars von Klaus Günther, Dan Wielsch und Benno Zabel.

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Event
19.05.2026 | Frankfurt

Speculative Truth Regimes

Panel Discussion

Event with Adam Kahlil (New Red Order) and Toby Lee (NYU) as part of the Series Visual Truth Regimes, organized by Laliv Melamed (Goethe University Frankfurt, Normative Orders), Felix Trautmann (Institut für Sozialforschung; HBK Braunschweig) and Franziska Wildt (Institut für Sozialforschung).

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Event
25./26.06.2026 | Frankfurt

Shifting Regimes, Changing Orders

Conference

Conference as part of WDC2026 in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (DGTF), Kunstgewerbemuseum/Design Campus SKD and Design and Democracy

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Event
28./29.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice

Conference

Following the research focus of the Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme, funded by Höppsche Stiftung, the "Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice" conference places a particular emphasis on themes such as the human right to health, political activism and health justice issues, and problems of structural injustice and vulnerable populations in health care. Keynote lectures by Jonathan Wolff and Kanchana Mahadevan. The Global Health Justice Programme and this conference are supported by the Höppsche Stiftung in Villmar.

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Event
14.07.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Democracy Over Time and the Climate Crisis

Lecture Series

Vortrag von Anja Karnein (Binghamton). Die Vortragsreihe untersucht Fragen der Klimakrise als Herausforderungen für demokratische Gesellschaften und konzentriert sich auf Themen wie politische Legitimität, Widerstand gegen fossile Brennstoffe und die Interessen künftiger Generationen. Sie wird organisiert von Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf und Dr. Lukas Sparenborg.

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Event
10.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Capital Investment, Inequality, and State Power in a Time of Climate Emergency

Lecture, Lecture Series

The lecture series examines questions of the climate crisis as challenges for democratic
societies and focuses on issues of political legitimacy, fossil fuel resistance, and the interests
of future generations.

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Event
23.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Wehrhafte Demokratie: Chancen und Grenzen des Parteiverbots

Panel Discussion

Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, ob und unter welchen verfassungsrechtlichen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Voraussetzungen ein Verbot einer demokratisch gewählten, rechtsnational ausgerichteten Partei als legitimes Mittel in Betracht gezogen werden kann oder nicht. Ausgehend von den normativen Grundlagen des Parteienverbots im Grundgesetz, möchten wir die hohen rechtlichen Hürden und demokratietheoretischen Spannungsfelder dieser Maßnahme erörtern – zwischen Pluralismus und Selbstverteidigung, zwischen Meinungsfreiheit und Schutz der freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung.

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