Lecture

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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13.11.2024

Trusting as a skillful act: a critical reconstruction of the sociological theory of trust

Lecture by: Gil Eyal (Colombia University) “Trust” has become one of the keywords of our time. Politicians and the media bemoan the decline of trust in science and experts, as […]

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13.11.2024

Horror and the Political in Contemporary South Asia

Meheli Sen (Rutgers University, New Jersey) This talk looks at genre cinema particularly the horror film-to situate it within India’s contemporary media cultures. In the face of totalitarian discourses that […]

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13.11.2024

The Territorial Fragments of Globalization in Contemporary Bombay Cinema

Ranjani Mazumdar (Jamaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) The complicated workings of various kinds of production infrastructures typically shape cinema’s topographical motivations and sense of scale. Through a comparative analysis of a […]

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News from the research center

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
27.05.2026 | Frankfurt

Von der Selbstermächtigung zum sozialen Widerstand

Lecture

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Axel Honneth (Frankfurt am Main / New York Columbia University) mit anschließender Diskussion im Rahmen des Rechtstheoretischen Mittwochsseminars von Klaus Günther, Dan Wielsch und Benno Zabel.

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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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Event
28./29.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice

Conference

Following the research focus of the Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme, funded by Höppsche Stiftung, the "Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice" conference places a particular emphasis on themes such as the human right to health, political activism and health justice issues, and problems of structural injustice and vulnerable populations in health care. Keynote lectures by Jonathan Wolff and Kanchana Mahadevan. The Global Health Justice Programme and this conference are supported by the Höppsche Stiftung in Villmar.

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Event
14.07.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Democracy Over Time and the Climate Crisis

Lecture Series

Vortrag von Anja Karnein (Binghamton). Die Vortragsreihe untersucht Fragen der Klimakrise als Herausforderungen für demokratische Gesellschaften und konzentriert sich auf Themen wie politische Legitimität, Widerstand gegen fossile Brennstoffe und die Interessen künftiger Generationen. Sie wird organisiert von Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf und Dr. Lukas Sparenborg.

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