Lecture

18.11.2024

Africa Reimagined: British West African Periodicals and the Rise of Garveyism

Lecture by Adom Getachew, University of Chicago Organizer: Heisenberg Professorship for Political Science with a focus on Political Theory, History of Ideas and Theories of Economics in cooperation with the […]

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18.11.2024

Who is authoritarian?

Prof. Dr. Vera King (Goethe University Frankfurt, Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute) in conversation with Alf Mentzer (journalist at Hessischer Rundfunk) Admission 3 euros. Tickets at the box office […]

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18.11.2024

Mobilizing Hope. Climate activism, solidarity and the dangers of plutocracy and pessimism

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe University, Normative Orders) Welcome from Prof. Franziska Nori, Director Frankfurter Kunstverein Rebecca Caroline Schmidt, Managing Director, Research Center Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt […]

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18.11.2024

(Criminal) law and time in the climate crisis

Lecture and panel discussion Welcome Prof. Franziska Nori (Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein) Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Director of the Research Centre “Normative Orders”, Goethe University Frankfurt) Finn-Lauritz Schmidt (Research […]

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18.11.2024

Trusting the Blockchain, Trusting the Novel

ConTrust Speaker Series Lecture by Adam Kelly (Associate Professor of English at University College Dublin) In the famous 2008 paper announcing the invention of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto justified the new […]

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18.11.2024

Group Identity beyond Nationalism. Lessons from National Socialism

Public Lecture Prof. Dr. Jonathan Wolff (Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy and Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford) Nationalism has been described as an […]

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18.11.2024

Democracy in times of regression. Normative and time-diagnostic considerations

Goethe Lectures Offenbach Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy and Director of the Research Centre “Normative Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt) In current analyses of the […]

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18.11.2024

Violence in office. Excessive use of force by the police and how to deal with it

Public lecture The event will present the results of the DFG research project KviAPol (Assault in Office by Police Officers) , which ran from 2018 to 2023. Based on a […]

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18.11.2024

City of Equals

Public Lecture within the Political Theory Colloquium Prof. Dr. Jonathan Wolff (Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy and Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford) Prof. […]

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18.11.2024

On the eve of the constitutional anniversary: 75 years of the Basic Law – a constitution of freedom and balance

Public lecture The Basic Law contains comprehensive guarantees of freedom. From the very beginning, constitutional practice has developed a wide range of concrete content from the openly formulated fundamental rights. […]

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18.11.2024

The Idea of the Public

Frankfurt Lectures “The Idea of the Public: Two Kantian Themes” Lecture by Prof Arthur Ripstein (Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto) Public institutions exercise powers that […]

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18.11.2024

Giving Laws to Ourselves

Frankfurt Lectures “The Idea of the Public: Two Kantian Themes” Lecture by Prof Arthur Ripstein (Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto) The Kantian idea of freedom […]

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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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