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03.11.2025

Reconsidering Legal Subjectivity In and Through the Anthropocene

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

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09.05.2025

The Power of Democracy

Please register in advance: haeusler@soz.uni-frankfurt.de   Programs 10:00 Welcome and Introduction: Martin Saar 10:30 Keynote: Clarissa Hayward: “Power: A Structural View” (Moderation: Martin Saar) 11:45 Coffee 12:15 Rainer Forst: “Noumenal […]

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09.05.2025

Democratic cohesion

In contemporary political discussions, diagnoses of a crisis of democracy are often linked to the statement that social cohesion is at risk and needs to be strengthened. However, the answers […]

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03.04.2025

Trust and Conflict: Taking stock and looking ahead

Final annual conference of the ConTrust initiative Program January 23, 2025 15:00 Welcome (Spokespersons of ConTrust) 15:15 Panel 1 The Justification of Trust Moderation: Prof. Greta Wagner (Goethe University) Prof. […]

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03.04.2025

Comparative Perspectives on Trust in Conflict

3rd annual conference of the ConTrust cluster project Program Thursday, November 16, 2023 15.00 Welcome Address Prof Rainer Forst (ConTrust, Goethe University) 15.15 Panel 1 | Identity Leadership and Trust […]

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03.04.2025

Second annual conference

2nd annual conference of the ConTrust cluster project Program Thursday, November 17, 2022 15.30 Welcome Address by Prof Bernhard Brüne (Vice President of Goethe University) Welcoming Remarks by Prof Nicole […]

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03.04.2025

Trust and conflict

1st annual conference of the ConTrust cluster project Trust is often understood as the opposite of conflict. The researchers of the ConTrust cluster initiative, however, assume that in modern societies, […]

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03.04.2025

Smart Orders and/or Democracy?

12th Annual International Conference Program 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Greeting Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Co-Speaker of the Research Network “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt am […]

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03.04.2025

Revolution, reaction, restoration: upheavals of normative orders

11th Annual International Conference Program Thursday, November 22, 2018 14:00 – 14:15 Opening of the annual conference Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther (Co-Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of […]

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03.04.2025

Crisis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

International annual conference Program Panel 1 Conceptions of Crisis Prof. Dr. Albena Azmanova (Brussels School of International Studies, Kent University): Crisis of Crisis: On Normative and Institutional Stuckness Prof. Dr. […]

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03.04.2025

Normative (B)Orders. Migration and Citizenship in a Time of Crisis

9th International Annual Conference Schedule Thursday, November 24th, 2016 2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., Ground floor Room 01+02 Opening of the Annual Conference 2016 Opening Address Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther […]

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03.04.2025

Europe’s justice

Eighth Annual International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” Program Thursday, November 19 13.00 to 13.15 Opening of the Annual Conference 2015: EUROPE’S JUSTICE Welcome: […]

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News from the research center

Event
18.04.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Das Prinzip Donald Trump und die Verrohung der Welt

Panel Discussion, Lecture

Ein neuer Politikstil macht international Karriere. Er ist gekennzeichnet von Vulgarität, Verrohung und erklärter Rechtsfeindschaft. Machtinteressen werden nicht mehr juristisch bemäntelt. Stattdessen wird das angebliche Recht des Stärkeren zur Staatsdoktrin gemacht – innenpolitisch wie außenpolitisch. Treibende Kraft hinter dieser Verrohung der politischen Sitten ist ein US-Präsident, der nicht nur die amerikanische Gesellschaft und Kultur, sondern auch die globale Ordnung nach seinen Vorstellungen und Interessen umgestaltet. Die Römerberggespräche wollen diesen Politikstil verstehen.

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Event
29.04.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Kulturindustrie heute?

Panel Discussion

Das Gespräch „Kulturindustrie heute?“ widmet sich der Aktualität und Tragfähigkeit eines zentralen Begriffs der Kritischen Theorie. Die Filmwissenschaftlerin Gertrud Koch diskutiert im Rahmen der Gesprächsreihe "Frankfurter Schule" mit dem Filmkritiker Bert Rebhandl die gegenwärtigen Formen kultureller Produktion und Verbreitung vor dem Hintergrund von Digitalisierung, Plattformen und globalen Medienmärkten.

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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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News
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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News
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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Publication
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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News
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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News
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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Publication
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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