Lecture
(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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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 […]
more information ›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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
more information › 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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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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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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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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