Panel Discussion

09.05.2025

Water in a heated world: Climate-resilient water management as a task for the EU

Water is one of our most important resources for life. It is also the central medium through which we recognize climate change. What’s more, over 90 percent of catastrophic events […]

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10.04.2025

The main thing is a theory? 1968 and the exclusivity of discourse

Frankfurt Citizens’ University event “50 Years in Motion – 1968 and the Consequences” in the summer semester 2018 and winter semester 2018/19 Panel including: Jürgen Kaube (editor of the Frankfurter […]

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10.04.2025

Remembering, confessing, guilt, coming to terms: 1968 and the Holocaust

Frankfurt Citizens’ University event “50 years in motion – 1968 and the consequences” in summer semester 2018 and winter semester 2018/19 Panel: Prof. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (psychoanalyst, former director of the […]

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10.04.2025

Unleashed ego. 1968 and the experiment with new forms of life

Event of the Frankfurt Citizens’ University “50 Years in Motion – 1968 and the Consequences” in the summer semester 2018 and winter semester 2018/19 Panel: Matthias Horx (trend and futurologist), […]

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10.04.2025

Making Crises Visible. Crisis of democracy

Event as part of the Citizens’ University “Thinking Democracy Forward” in the winter semester 2019/2020 Democracy is in a constant process of transformation – and is in crisis in many […]

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10.04.2025

New old St. Paul’s Church

Event as part of the Citizens’ University “Thinking Democracy Forward” in the winter semester 2019/2020 Greeting Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann (City of Frankfurt) Impulse Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Political Philosopher, […]

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03.04.2025

What is liberation?

At the opening event of our series of events on the significance of the Frankfurt School on March 20 at the MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, philosophy professor Christoph Menke […]

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03.04.2025

Crisis of democracy?

Frankfurt School” discussion series Rainer Forst (Goethe University, Normative Orders) in conversation with Kia Vahland (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Two chairs, one table, spotlight on: What does the Frankfurt School have to […]

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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

Criticism of ideology. Today!

Panel discussion With: Alenka Zupančič, Mladen Dolar, Slavoj Žižek,Rainer Forst, Regina Kreide and Martin Saar Moderation: Frank Ruda The contemporary world seems to be in disarray: an impending (or rather, […]

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18.11.2024

Fireside chat of the women’s network

With Prof. Patti Tamara Lenard (University of Ottawa) For fireside chats we invite succcesful women who will talk about their personal careers and their motivations. Afterwards, the guests are available […]

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18.11.2024

Europe’s role in the world: A foreign policy guided by values in the light of global crisis management

The European Union is the result of a large number of successfully overcome crises. Having started out as a peace project, the EU is now an important player for peace, […]

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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
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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Publication
22.04.2026 | Chapter

Körpergeschlecht und Selbstbestimmung

Britz, Gabriele (2026): "Körpergeschlecht und Selbstbestimmung". In. Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.): Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft, Nomos, S. 41-48.

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Publication
22.04.2026 | Chapter

Festrede zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard), 4. April 2025

Schmidt, Rebecca Caroline; Forst, Rainer; Günther, Klaus (2026): "Festrede zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard), 4. April 2025". In: Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.): Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft, Nomos, S. 13-18.

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Publication
22.04.2026 | Anthology

Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft: Kontinuität und Wandel in intergenerationeller Betrachtung

Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.) (2026): "Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft: Kontinuität und Wandel in intergenerationeller Betrachtung". Nomos.

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