Conference

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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03.04.2025

Normative orders in transition: global challenges

Seventh Annual International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” Program Thursday, November 20, 2014 14.30 to 14.45 Opening of the 2014 Annual Conference “Normative Orders […]

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03.04.2025

Normative orders of the future

International Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” Program Thursday, November 21, 2013 14:30 – 14:45, Room EG 01+02 Opening of the Annual Conference 2013: […]

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03.04.2025

Legal Cultures, Legal Transfer, and Legal Pluralism

4th Annual International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence The subject of the conference concerns recent developments of normative orders in general and legal orders in particular: The fact that […]

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03.04.2025

Justice and/or Peace

3rd Annual International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence In ordinary language peace usually stands for ‘freedom from disturbance’ or ‘a state or period in which there is no war’. […]

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03.04.2025

Justification narratives. Legitimization and narrative understanding

2nd Annual International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence The second annual conference of the Frankfurt Cluster of Excellence on the “Formation of Normative Orders” is dedicated to the topic […]

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03.04.2025

The formation of normative orders

Opening conference The new Frankfurt Cluster of Excellence presented its interdisciplinary research program to a wider public for the first time at an international conference. A contribution from Eva Buddeberg […]

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12.01.2025

Historical science in dialog

Symposium and multiplier event for the subject of history at German preparatory colleges   Program: Thursday, 25.9.2025 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Welcome to Frankfurt! Guided tour of the Westend […]

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16.12.2024

After Surveillance. Digital Intermediaries of Trust, Confidence, and Security

Frankfurt-Harvard Conference on surveillance and digital intermediaries. With two keynotes by Nicole Starosielski, UC Berkeley and Nick Couldry, LSE.

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18.11.2024

Comparative Perspectives on Trust in Conflict

Third Annual Conference of the Research Initiative “ConTrust – Trust in Conflict” Participation via Zoom is also possible Please register until November 10, 2023 at office@normativeorders.net   Program Thursday, November […]

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News from the research center

Event
02.06.2026 | Frankfurt

Forensic Truth Regimes

Movie, Panel Discussion

The event explores how documentary film and aesthetic investigations can reopen unresolved questions of justice and accountability by revisiting the 1992 killing of two Romanian Roma men at the German-Polish border and examining the counter-forensic potential of visual media to critique legal violence and truth regimes. It is part of the series “Visual Truth Regimes,” organized by Laliv Melamed (Goethe University Frankfurt, TFM), Felix Trautmann (HBK Braunschweig / Institute for Social Research), and Franziska Wildt (Institute for Social Research).

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Event
02.06.2026 | Brussels

Zusammenhalt, Vertrauen und Demokratie in Europa

Panel Discussion, Lecture

Vertrauen, Zusammenhalt, Demokratie – drei große Begriff, die in Europa derzeit allgegenwärtig sind. Doch wie belastbar sind sie eigentlich und was beschreiben sie? Was genau meinen wir eigentlich, wenn wir von politischem Vertrauen und gesellschaftlichem Zusammenhalt sprechen? Und braucht es – wie häufig behauptet – ein gewisses Maß an sozialer oder kultureller Homogenität, damit Vertrauen wachsen und Zusammenhalt entstehen kann? Diesen Fragen widmen wir uns in der aktuellen Ausgabe der Crisis Talks – auf dem Podium und im Gespräch mit unseren Gästen.

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Event
22.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Rechtsextremismus und Polizei - Erscheinungsformen, Umgangsweisen, Perspektiven

Panel Discussion

Die Diskussion knüpft an den Sammelband „Rechtsextremismus als Herausforderung für Polizei und Gesellschaft“ an, der aktuelle Perspektiven aus Wissenschaft, Praxis und Zivilgesellschaft zusammenführt.

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News
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

This essay by Johannes Völz is a revised and updated translation of “Enthemmte Informalisierung: Talk Radio, Bro-Podcasts und die Ästhetik des Populismus,” WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 22.2 (2025): 3–24. It is published here as part of the b2o Review’s “Stop the Right” dossier.

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Event
25./26.06.2026 | Frankfurt

Shifting Regimes, Changing Orders

Conference

Conference as part of WDC2026 in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (DGTF), Kunstgewerbemuseum/Design Campus SKD and Design and Democracy

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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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Publication
22.04.2026 | Chapter

Festrede zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard), 4. April 2025

Schmidt, Rebecca Caroline; Forst, Rainer; Günther, Klaus (2026): "Festrede zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard), 4. April 2025". In: Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.): Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft, Nomos, S. 13-18.

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