Lecture

09.05.2025

LITTLE SENEGAL (DZ/FR/DE 2001. D: Rachid Bouchareb)

Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Boukary Sawadogo (New York) Lecture: Blackness: Politics and Affect of Kinship in Little Senegal Little Senegal (2001) by the Algerian French director Rachid […]

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09.05.2025

A DEUSA NEGRA (Black Goddess. BR/NG 1979. D: Ola Balogun)

Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Introduction: Didi Cheeka (Lagos) and Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt, ConTrust) Lecture: Crossing the Black Atlantic: Ola Balogun and A Deusa Negra (1978) Reversing the course […]

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03.04.2025

Latency – On the genesis of the aesthetic as a historical category

Latency is a tentative concept: that which is conceived in it imposes itself before it is conceived. It is obvious that aesthetics plays a role in this: its historical source […]

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22.03.2025

Equality in time? Intergenerational perspectives on the law

Lecture as part of the series “Shaping the future – between climate change, technology and social responsibility” Lecture by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz (Professor of Public Law at Goethe University, […]

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12.01.2025

Ecological social criticism, but how?

Lecture as part of the series “Shaping the future – between climate change, technology and social responsibility” Lecture by Dr. des. Felix Kämper (Research associate at the Research Institute for […]

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05.01.2025

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

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

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12.12.2024

What do you think about migration – immigration as a question of national destiny?

  56th Römerberg Talks Immigration currently seems to be Germany’s most important problem. Elections are won or lost on this issue. The fear of growing crime, terrorist attacks by foreign […]

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19.11.2024

Climate protests from a legal perspective – Hanover’s understanding with the “last generation”

Lecture by Susanne Beck (LU Hannover) Participation via Zoom here… Meeting ID: 941 9219 9198 ID code: 810115 Part of the virtual lecture series “Climate crisis and criminal law” 2nd […]

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19.11.2024

The climate of criminal law – Why securing the future with the means of criminal law is so difficult

Lecture by Bijan Fateh-Moghadam (University of Basel) Participation via Zoom here… Meeting ID: 941 9219 9198 ID code: 810115 Part of the virtual lecture series “Climate Crisis and Criminal Law” […]

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19.11.2024

Final discussion and outlook

with Christoph Burchard / Finn-Lauritz Schmidt (GU Frankfurt, ConTrust, Normative Orders) Participation via Zoom here… Meeting ID: 941 9219 9198 ID code: 810115 Part of the virtual lecture series “Climate […]

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19.11.2024

Last Generation – Criminal organization or radical democratic movement?

Lecture by Daria Bayer (GU Frankfurt) Participation via Zoom here… Meeting ID: 941 9219 9198 ID code: 810115 Part of the virtual lecture series “Climate Crisis and Criminal Law” 1st […]

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19.11.2024

Climate change and justice

Lecture by Juliane Engel and Thomas Hickler (GU Frankfurt) Participation via Zoom here… Meeting ID: 941 9219 9198 ID code: 810115 Part of the virtual lecture series “Climate Crisis and […]

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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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