21.11.2023

What is solidarity? Third event in the “Frankfurt School” series with Stephan Lessenich on December 3

The economic cycles of solidarity run parallel to the crisis cycles of a society. For example, solidarity was on everyone’s lips during the coronavirus pandemic and solidarity with Ukraine and Israel is currently the subject of intense public debate. As part of the “Frankfurter Schule” series, the Director of the Institute for Social Research, Prof. Dr Stephan Lessenich, and the journalist from the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Meredith Haaf, will discuss the key question “What is solidarity?” on Sunday, 3 December at 7 pm in the Kammerspiel of the Schauspiel Frankfurt.
The series, organized by the “Normative Orders” research center at Goethe University together with the Department of Culture and Science of the City of Frankfurt am Main, takes place at regular intervals in different cultural institutions in Frankfurt. The guests are personalities who – trained in “Frankfurt thinking” – take a stand on current problems. Cooperation partners of the series are the Institute for Social Research and hr2-kultur.

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16.06.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Trump and the Assault on the State

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Vortrag von Jeffrey Kopstein Professor der Politikwissenschaft an der University of California, Irvine) über die Gefahr einer Erosion des Staates und Wege gegen den Trend zur Zerstörung.

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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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05.05.2025

Normative Orders Newsletter 01/25 published

The newsletter from Research Centre Normative Orders collects information on current events, reports, news and publications several times a year. Read the first issue 2025 here.

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05.05.2025

"Hitler. History of a Dictator" by Sybille Steinbacher will be published on May 15, 2025

The historian's new book deals with Hitler's origins, the roots of his anti-Semitism and his rise to power.

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29.04.2025

Public lecture series “Racism in the police” begins on May 13, 2025

Racism in the police has various dimensions. In the lecture series “Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies”, three empirical studies on police work will be presented.

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22.04.2025 | Encyclopedia

Edessa (Fourth Century bc to the Eighth Century ad)

Leppin, Hartmut (2025): "Edessa (Fourth Century bc to the Eighth Century ad)". In: Raja, Rubina (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford Academic, pp. 491-506.

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10.04.2025

Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility

A new series of lectures by the research center as part of the “Fixing Futures” exhibition on the implications of climate change and technological progress.

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07.04.2025

Justice as a subject of jurisprudence

Report on the academic symposium in honor of Ute Sacksofsky, a pioneer of feminist legal policy and theory.

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