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17.11.2025
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Democracy at a crossroads? The Research Centre Normative Orders invites to discuss future perspectives of democratic orders

The lecture series “At a crossroads? On the Crisis of Democracy” looks at these developments from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the causes, manifestations and dynamics of democratic crises as well as possibilities for the renewal and defense of democratic principles in a globally networked but increasingly fragmented world.

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03.07.2025
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The ’68 movement and its consequences

Panel discussion with the prominent 68ers Rainer Langhans and Christa Ritter and the social philosopher Martin Saar – event organized by the Research Centre Normative Orders at Goethe University

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25.06.2025
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How those persecuted by the Nazi regime experienced West German democracy

Book launch and discussion with the author Stefanie Schüler-Springorum and Michel Friedman

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29.04.2025
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Shaping the future

Between climate change, technology and social responsibility. Lecture series of the research center “Normative Orders” as part of the exhibition “FIXING FUTURES” of the Museum Giersch of the Goethe University

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26.11.2024
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How do you feel about migration?

The 56th Römerberg Talks discuss immigration as a question of national destiny

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07.11.2024
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Police use of force: problems and how to deal with them

Police use of force: problems and how to deal with them. Goethe Lectures Offenbach on November 11, 2024 at the Klingspor Museum

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28.10.2024
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Innovative views on Kant’s philosophy

The American philosopher Christine M. Korsgaard takes over the Dagmar Westberg Visiting Professorship

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26.06.2024
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What does “colonial” mean?

The next event in the “Frankfurter Schule” series is dedicated to the recent intensive discourse on colonialism. The historian and author Dan Diner and the lawyer and journalist Miloš Vec will take part in the discussion

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21.06.2024
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The foundations of public power

Renowned Kant expert Arthur Ripstein speaks at the Frankfurt Lectures of the Research Center Normative Orders

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News from the research center

Event
20.03.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

40 Jahre Schengen-Raum

Colloquium

Der 1984 geschlossene Schengen-Vertrag schuf einen heute 29 Staaten umfassenden Raum ohne Binnengrenzen, doch Migration über die Außengrenzen führte zuletzt zur Wiedereinführung von Kontrollen, auch durch die Bundesregierung ab 8. Mai 2025. Das Walter Hallstein-Kolloquium diskutiert die rechtliche Zulässigkeit, wirtschaftliche Folgen insbesondere für Arbeitsmigration und Arbeitsmarkt sowie die Zukunft des Schengen-Raums.

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12.02.2026

Satanist politics and the decline of reason in liberal democracies

For the last time in the winter semester 2025/26, the Research Center hosted the lecture series "Am Scheidepunkt. On the crisis of democracy". At the end, philosopher Michael Rosen from Harvard University presented his concept of "satanic politics" as a variant of the political interpretation of the world.

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09.02.2026

On the topicality of the concept of violence based on Camus and Derrida

Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt from the University of St. Gallen gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence as part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", she gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence. Under the title "Defending democracies. On the topicality of the concept of violence in Camus and Derrida", the philosopher discussed forms of violence and revolt and categorized them with regard to a democratic setting.

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04.02.2026 | Journal article

New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts

Wille, Tobias; Simon, Hendrik; Daase, Christopher; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Wheeler, Nicholas J.; Holmes, Marcus; Rathbun, Brian C.; Acharya, Amitav; Mitzen, Jennifer (2026): „New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts“. In: International Studies Review 28 (1), viaf027.

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02.02.2026

States competing for people - David Owen on civil geopolitics

As part of the lecture series "At the Crossroads - The Future of Democracy", David Owen from the University of Southampton presented his concept of civil geopolitics.

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20.01.2026

Christine Hentschel on reorientation in catastrophic times

As part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", the sociologist spoke about living in and dealing with catastrophic times. Against the backdrop of the destruction of living conditions, wars, permanent crises and threats to democracy, Hentschel addressed the infiltration of the catastrophic into everyday social life and a changing activist and literary approach to the future.

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08.01.2026 | Journal article

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes; Laudenbach, Christine (2025): „Gender Differences in Financial Advice“. In: American Economic Review, 115 (12), pp. 4218–4252.

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19.12.2025 | Anthology

Faszination und Freiheit 

Günther, Klaus; Zabel, Benno (Hrsg.) (2025): Faszination und Freiheit - Gegenwartsdiagnosen im Anschluss an Christoph Menkes Theorie der Befreiung, Weilerswist (Velbrück Wissenschaft).

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12.12.2025 | Anthology

Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus. Das Strafrecht und die Vielfalt der Alternativen

Tobias Singelnstein, Christoph Burchard (2025)

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