Panel Discussion

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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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

Eternal anti-Semitism and the protection of Jewish life in Europe – What to do?

Crisis Talks The brutal Hamas attack on Israeli citizens on October 7, 2023 and Israel’s response in Gaza also had direct consequences for Jews in Europe. Attacks on Jewish institutions […]

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News from the research center

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
06./07.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Liberalism and the Masses: Revisiting José Ortega y Gasset’s Political Thought

Conference

Two-day Conference with Keynotes by Alan Kahan (University of Versailles/St. Quentin) and Javier Zamora Bonilla (Complutense University of Madrid)

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Event
04.05.2026 | Frankfurt

Meinungsfreiheit, Meinungsvielfalt und Verantwortung für die Demokratie: Wie gestalten Medien neue Räume für Debatten und Teilhabe?

Panel Discussion

Im Rahmen der Woche der Meinungsfreiheit 2026 laden die World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 in Kooperation mit dem Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, dem Hessischen Rundfunk, der Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft und dem Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen der Goethe-Universität herzlich zu einer Diskussionsveranstaltung am 4. Mai 2026 in den WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt ein.

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Event
12.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus

Book Presentation

Buchvorstellung mit Christine Graebsch, Katrin Höffler, Jochen Bung & Ronen Steinke

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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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Event
10.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Capital Investment, Inequality, and State Power in a Time of Climate Emergency

Lecture, Lecture Series

The lecture series examines questions of the climate crisis as challenges for democratic
societies and focuses on issues of political legitimacy, fossil fuel resistance, and the interests
of future generations.

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Event
13.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Failed States and Cloudy skies: Tipping Points, Overshoot and Permanent Emergency, after America

Lecture Series

The lecture series examines questions of the climate crisis as challenges for democratic
societies and focuses on issues of political legitimacy, fossil fuel resistance, and the interests
of future generations.

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Event
23.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Wehrhafte Demokratie: Chancen und Grenzen des Parteiverbots

Panel Discussion

Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, ob und unter welchen verfassungsrechtlichen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Voraussetzungen ein Verbot einer demokratisch gewählten, rechtsnational ausgerichteten Partei als legitimes Mittel in Betracht gezogen werden kann oder nicht. Ausgehend von den normativen Grundlagen des Parteienverbots im Grundgesetz, möchten wir die hohen rechtlichen Hürden und demokratietheoretischen Spannungsfelder dieser Maßnahme erörtern – zwischen Pluralismus und Selbstverteidigung, zwischen Meinungsfreiheit und Schutz der freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung.

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