Associate Member

Irene Weipert-Fenner

  • Biografische Angaben

    Dr. Irene Weipert-Fenner (b. 1982) is a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research (PRIF) and Principal Investigator at ConTrust. As a comparative political scientist, she focuses on autocracies and democratization as well as protests and social movements with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Ms. Weipert-Fenner holds a doctorate in political science from Goethe University. For her dissertation "The Autocratic Parliament. Power and Norm Dynamics in Egypt, 1866 -2011", she received the dissertation prize of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) in 2014.
  • Publikationen

    Weipert-Fenner, Irene/Rossi, Federico M./Sika, Nadine/Wolff Jonas (Hg.): Trust and Social Movements, Special issue of the International Journal for Comparative Sociology, forthcoming, 2024. Weipert-Fenner, Irene: Budget politics and democratization in Tunisia: The loss of  consensus and the erosion of trust, in:  Mediterranean Politics 2023, DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2023.2207429. Weipert-Fenner, Irene: „Go local, go global: Studying popular protests in the MENA post-2011“ in: Mediterranean Politics, 2021.26(5), 563-585: https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2021.1889286 Weipert-Fenner, Irene: The Autocratic Parliament. Power and Legitimacy in Egypt, 1866-2011, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020 Weipert-Fenner, Irene: „Unemployed mobilisation in times of democratisation: the Union of Unemployed Graduates in post-Ben Ali Tunisia“ in: Journal of North African Studies, 25(1), 2020, S. 53-75. DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2018.1535317 Socioeconomic Protests in MENA and Latin America. Egypt and Tunisia in Interregional Comparison. Herausgegeben mit Jonas Wolff, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Clientelism and Patronage in the Middle East and North Africa: Networks of Dependency. Herausgegeben mit Laura Ruiz de Elvira und Christoph Schwarz, New York, London: Routledge, 2018.

News from the research center

Event
25./26.06.2026 | Frankfurt

DGTF Conference 2026: Shifting Regimes, Changing Orders

Conference

Conference as part of WDC 2026 in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (DGTF), Kunstgewerbemuseum/Design Campus SKD and Design and Democracy

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Event
30.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Recht und Angst in Demokratien

Lecture

Vortrag von Benno Zabel (Universitätslehrer für Strafecht und Rechtsphilosophie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.) im Rahmen der partizipativen Redenreihe "DenkArt_ Im Schmelztiegel der Angst"

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Event
09./10.07.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Democracy: Principles and Practice, Resilience and Innovation

Conference

Annual Conference of the Research Program "Zeitenwenden. Normative Ordnungen im Umbruch?" with Arthur Ripstein, Astrid Séville, John McCormick, Nadia Urbinati, Claudia Landwehr, Hubertus Buchstein and Peter Niesen.

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News
19.06.2026

Internationales Symposium würdigt Lebenswerk von Jürgen Habermas

Am Freitag, den 19. Juni 2026, würdigte das Forschungszentrum Normative Orders gemeinsam mit dem Suhrkamp-Verlag den verstorbenen Jürgen Habermas mit einem internationalen Symposium an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

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Event
01./03.07.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Sexual Agency

Conference

A three-day conference about sexual agency, covering questions of autonomy, responsibility, power, consent, desire and embodiement. Organized by Manon Garcia and Milena Bartholain.

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18.05.2026

Videopodcast-Reihe „Our Planet, Our Health“ gestartet

Mit „Our Planet, Our Health“ startet eine neue Videopodcast-Reihe zu Fragen globaler Gesundheitsgerechtigkeit. Die Reihe, gehostet von Dr. Romina Rekers, ist eine Initiative des Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme (GHJ), gefördert von der Höppschen Stiftung.

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Publication
12.05.2026 | Online article

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

Völz, Johannes (2026): "Disinhibited Informalization: Talk Radio, Bro Podcasts and the Aesthetics of Populism". In: b2o - boundary 2 online.

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Publication
22.04.2026 | Chapter

Körpergeschlecht und Selbstbestimmung

Britz, Gabriele (2026): "Körpergeschlecht und Selbstbestimmung". In. Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.): Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft, Nomos, S. 41-48.

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