Lecture

13.11.2024

Shadow Lines: Tracing the Cinematic Legacies of the 1940s Indian Left Cultural Movement

Manishita Dass (Royal Holloway, University of London) The talk explores some of the methodological challenges and insights that Dass has encountered and gained, respectively, while working on Left Luggage, her […]

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13.11.2024

Mapping the networks of gendered performance, labor, and mobility

Priyadarshini Shanker (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) This talk intervenes in three prevailing frameworks of Indian film and media studies – auteurist approaches, history of film movements, and digital media […]

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13.11.2024

Memories of a Milk City (1991) and Tales of Planet Kolkata (1993)

Ruchir Joshi (film-maker, columnist and writer based in Calcutta) This program includes two essay films Memories of a Milk City (1991) and Tales of Planet Kolkata (1993) by Ruchir Joshi, […]

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13.11.2024

The Pedagogy of the Piratical

Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara) Even as techno-nationalist fantasies fuel India’s dreams of superpowerdom, inserting the country into a universal narrative of global ascension via market liberalization, this […]

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07.11.2024

Transitioning into Noise: 1930s Film Technology Debates in India

Lecture Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh) Using film excerpts, ads for sound recording and projection equipment, sound technicians’ columns, as well as reports by and about salesmen-technicians, such as the […]

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07.11.2024

General suspicion – social conflicts surrounding so-called clan crime

Lecture and discussion With Mohammed Ali Chahrour (co-editor of the book “Generalverdacht”) and Dr. Robert Pelzer (TU Berlin) In recent years, the social discourse surrounding so-called clan crime has intensified, […]

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07.11.2024

Persistent differences: attitudes towards migration and gender in East and West Germany

Prof. Dr. Daniela Grunow (Professor of Sociology with a focus on “Quantitative Analyses of Social Change”, Research Institute for Social Cohesion, Normative Orders) and Dr. Mirko K. Braack (Post-Doc at […]

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07.11.2024

What does “colonial” mean? On the significance of a historical qualification

Dan Diner (Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in conversation with Miloš Vec (Professor of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna) Today, […]

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07.11.2024

Lunchtalk for women and Early Career Researchers with Grada Kilomba

In an informal lunch setting, we aim to open a space for Grada Kilomba to talk about her experiences and insights into knowledge production within and without academia and the […]

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07.11.2024

No end to history? Historiography since the 1990s

Kantorowicz Lecture 2024 With Prof. Dr.Monika Dommann (Professor of Modern History, University of Zurich) 35 years after the end of history proclaimed in 1989, the lecture looks back on the […]

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05.11.2024

On Distrust in Democracy

Keynote In the face of a widely diagnosed “crisis of democracy,” calls for more trust and social cohesion are commonplace. But to what extent is democracy a matter of trust? […]

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05.11.2024

Ignorance. Creates. Racism.

Public lecture Racism is a problem. Nobody wants to be a racist and yet racism persists in our society. What unconscious contribution do we make every day to maintaining racist […]

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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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