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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
10.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Satanic Politics. Democracy after Liberalism

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Michael Rosen (Harvard University) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
04.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Demokratien verteidigen. Zur Aktualität des Gewaltbegriffs bei Camus und Derrida

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Abbt (Universität St. Gallen) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
29.01.2026

Civil Geopolitics and the Dilemmas of the Democratic State

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von David Owen (Universtiy of Southampton) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
14.01.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Vom Retten der Welt zum Vorbereiten auf den Kollaps: Neuorientierungen in katastrophischen Zeiten

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Hentschel (Universität Hamburg) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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10.12.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

How Democracy Relies on the Future

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Jonathan White (LSE) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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26.11.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Krise der Demokratietheorie? Eine soziologische Intervention

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Jenni Brichzin (Universität der Bundeswehr München) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
27./28.11.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Reconsidering Legal Subjectivity In and Through the Anthropocene

Conference

Internationale Konferenz organisiert vom Wissenschaftsnetzwerk Recht im Anthropozän (RiA) in Kooperation mit dem Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen.

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News
23.10.2025

Vinzenz Hediger becomes new director of the Cinémathèque suisse

Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger will become Director of the Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne from January 2026. The Cinémathèque suisse has been preserving, restoring and promoting Swiss and international film heritage since 1948. It is recognized by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) as one of the ten most important cinematheques in the world - due to the size, diversity and quality of its collections.

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23.10.2025

Book launch of Lea Ypis "Indignity. A Life Reimagined" at the Frankfurt Book Fair

As part of the book presentation of Lea Ypis "Indignity. A Life Reimagined" on October 15, questions about dignity, identity, freedom and responsibility in times of extreme historical change were discussed.

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