Workshop

14.10.2025

Kolja Möller – Volk und Elite

Workshop zum “Buch Volk und Elite – Eine Gesellschaftstheorie des Populismus” von Kolja Möller

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16.06.2025

Territorial Justice by Lea Ypi

Workshop on the new book by Lea Ypi (LSE). With, among others: Andrea Sangiovanni and Ayelet Shachar.

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10.05.2025

Multiple Mobilities and Migrations in African and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Media

International Workshop This two-day workshop examines multiple mobilities and diverse migratory patterns in African and Afro-Diasporic literature and media from a transcultural and transnational perspective. The main premise is that […]

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09.05.2025

Critique of punitive reason. Studies on justice, vulnerability and pain

Book workshop Introduction to the debate: Klaus Günther & Benno Zabel Registration requested at: office.zabel@jur.uni-frankfurt.de March 14 and 15, 2025   Program March 14, 2025 14.00 to 16.00 Panel I […]

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09.05.2025

Philosophy and Public Policy

Tandem Workshop with Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) and Louis Larue (Aalborg) Organized by Katarina Pitasse Fragoso (JQYA Fellow) Please register here…   Programs 17h30h – Introduction – Katarina Pitasse Fragoso (Frankfurt […]

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09.05.2025

Materialism. Between Totality and Plurality

Workshop Please register at: jonas.heller@normativeorders.net Thursday, January 30th, 16:00-18:00 Introduction: Simon Gurisch Panel 1: Race Reference: Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection Participants: Penny Deutscher (Northwestern), Juliane Rebentisch (Hamburg) Moderation: Rime […]

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10.12.2024

Peace theory in times of war. From where – to where?

Workshop Program: 10:15 am Beginning of the Workshop; Welcome 10:30-11:30 a.m. Anacrusis 1. talking about peace in war/Speaking peace in war – what for? (input Lothar Brock/ Hendrik Simon) Discussion […]

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18.11.2024

ConTrust Methods Lab

The Methods Lab is a workshop dedicated to the critical discussion of methodological approaches to trust research. By means of the inputs of two external invited scholars, the participants will […]

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18.11.2024

The Far Right and International Organizations

FARRIO Kick-Off Workshop Please register with Melina Bräutigam(m.braeutigam@soz.uni-frankfurt.de), indicating your name, your institutional affiliation, and the days you would like to attend the workshop. Please note that we only have […]

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18.11.2024

Trust in Digital Infrastructures – Global Perspectives, Histories, and Politics

Workshop Modern societies are critically dependent on digital infrastructure (Parks & Starosielski 2015), and this is especially evident when infrastructure fails. But beyond situations of outage, infrastructures appear to us […]

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15.11.2024

Making teaching diverse – How can diversity be promoted in the seminar context and discrimination stopped?

Workshop How can diversity in university teaching be actively promoted and discrimination specifically prevented? What exactly contributes to an inclusive, respectful learning atmosphere? Where is discrimination hidden in all the […]

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11.11.2024

Judgment and public spirit

Workshop (in German) on Sabine Müller-Mall’s theory of law Program Monday, October 7, 1 p.m. Welcome and introduction Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther and Prof. Dr. Benno Zabel 13.30 Introduction to […]

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News from the research center

News
04.12.2025

The crisis of democratic theory from a sociological perspective

Sociologist Jenny Brichzin's lecture "Crisis of Democratic Theory? A sociological intervention" opened our lecture series "At the crossroads? On the future of democratic theory". The sociologist criticized the fact that social coexistence has so far been insufficiently addressed in democratic theory. A follow-up report

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Publication
21.11.2025 | Anthology

Handbook of Leadership. Applied Business Psychology for Managers

Felfe, Jörg; Dick, Rolf van (eds.) (2025): Handbook of Leadership. Applied Business Psychology for Managers. Springer.

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News
20.11.2025

Voluntary or compulsory? Military service, peace and democratic responsibility

Review of the 58th "Römerberggespräche". The topic of compulsory military service and the question of what a democratic state is allowed to demand of its citizens were at the center of the 58th "Römerberggespräche" "Conditionally ready for action? Military service and the duty to serve the state", which took place on November 15 in cooperation with the Research Centre Normative Orders in the Chagallsaal at Schauspiel Frankfurt.

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News
13.11.2025

Goethe Lecture Offenbach on ableist discrimination

Regina Schidel hat im Rahmen der Goethe Lectures Offenbach eine Kritik ableistischer Diskriminierung präsentiert. In ihrem Vortrag „Ich kann, also bin ich?“ diskutierte sie praktische Ausprägungen und philosophische Herkünfte von Ableismus.

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Event
10.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Satanic Politics. Democracy after Liberalism

Lecture, Lecture Series

Lecture by Michael Rosen (Harvard University) as part of the lecture series "At the Crossroads? On the crisis of democracy" in the winter semester 2025/2026

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Event
04.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Demokratien verteidigen. Zur Aktualität des Gewaltbegriffs bei Camus und Derrida

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Abbt (Universität St. Gallen) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
29.01.2026 | Frankfurt

Civil Geopolitics and the Dilemmas of the Democratic State

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von David Owen (Universtiy of Southampton) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
14.01.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Vom Retten der Welt zum Vorbereiten auf den Kollaps: Neuorientierungen in katastrophischen Zeiten

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Hentschel (Universität Hamburg) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
10.12.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

How Democracy Relies on the Future

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Jonathan White (LSE) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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