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Police practice between state mandate and public criticism. Challenges, coping strategies, risk constellations in the context of police racism

Lecture series: Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies Lecture by: Prof. Dr. Astrid Jacobsen (IKRIS / Police Academy of Lower Saxony) Reports from people affected by racism about unprovoked police checks, humiliation or problematic use of force by the police continue unabated. They occupy the public debate; numerous political initiatives […]

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Equality in time? Intergenerational perspectives on the law

Lecture as part of the series "Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility" Lecture by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz (Professor of Public Law at Goethe University, former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court) As part of the exhibition "FIXING FUTURES: Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control", the MGGU - Museum Giersch […]

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Trump and the Assault on the State

Vortrag von Jeffrey Kopstein Professor der Politikwissenschaft an der University of California, Irvine) über die Gefahr einer Erosion des Staates und Wege gegen den Trend zur Zerstörung.

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The Black Altantic and the Politics of Self-Representation in the Cinema: A Critical Analysis of Mati Diop’s Atlantics (2019)

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Femi Shaka (Port Harcourt) Paul Gilroy's seminal work, The Black Atlantic (1993), is cardinal to an understanding of the "ideas of the nation, nationality, national belonging, and nationalism" as experienced by blacks in the diaspora. But as Zeleza (2005) noted, "Gilroy's central concern was to deconstruct the idea […]

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Unwanted. West German democracy and those persecuted by the Nazi regime

Book presentation Lecture followed by a discussion between Prof. Dr. Dr. Michel Friedman and Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum After 1945, there was no less anti-Semitism and racism, no less hatred of homosexuals than during National Socialism, but probably even more. The lecture describes the experiences of surviving Jews and Sinti and Roma, former forced laborers […]

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Diasporic Aesthetics, Intermedial Dialogues. The films of Nicolás Guillé Landrián

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Jessica Gordon-Burroughs (Edinburgh) Lecture: Diasporic Aesthetics, Intermedial Dialogues. The films of Nicolás Guillé Landrián Afro-Cuban filmmaker and artist Nicolás Guillén Landrián's final cinematic work in exile, Inside Downtown, co-directed with Jorge Egusquiza, has barely been discussed in the growing critical literature on his oeuvre. This omission points to […]

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A different view: The relevance of victims’ perspectives on policing and racism

Lecture series: Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies Leonie Fuchs (NaDiRa / DeZIM Institute) Reports from people affected by racism about unprovoked police checks, humiliation or problematic use of force by the police continue unabated. They occupy the public debate; numerous political initiatives have been fighting for clarification, in some […]

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Ecological social criticism, but how?

Lecture as part of the series "Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility" Lecture by Dr. des. Felix Kämper (Research associate at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion, Goethe University) As part of the exhibition "FIXING FUTURES: Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control", the MGGU - Museum Giersch of Goethe University, […]

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The Intimacies of Four Continents in Caribbean Cinema

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Usha Iyer (Stanford) his program of two films from the Caribbean - a fiction feature and a documentary will extend the frame of the Black Atlantic by considering connected migrations across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and histories of African enslavement and Asian indenture. The many connections and […]

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News from the research institute

Event
16.06.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Trump and the Assault on the State

Lecture

Vortrag von Jeffrey Kopstein Professor der Politikwissenschaft an der University of California, Irvine) über die Gefahr einer Erosion des Staates und Wege gegen den Trend zur Zerstörung.

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News
19.05.2025

What can a baroque tapestry tell us about colonial iconography?

Lecture by Cécile Fromone on May 21. The professor at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, director of the Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center and author will talk about the long-forgotten African origins of iconography and its colonial dimension.

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News
05.05.2025

Normative Orders Newsletter 01/25 published

The newsletter from Research Centre Normative Orders collects information on current events, reports, news and publications several times a year. Read the first issue 2025 here.

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News
05.05.2025

"Hitler. History of a Dictator" by Sybille Steinbacher will be published on May 15, 2025

The historian's new book deals with Hitler's origins, the roots of his anti-Semitism and his rise to power.

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News
29.04.2025

Public lecture series “Racism in the police” begins on May 13, 2025

Racism in the police has various dimensions. In the lecture series “Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies”, three empirical studies on police work will be presented.

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Publication
22.04.2025 | Encyclopedia

Edessa (Fourth Century bc to the Eighth Century ad)

Leppin, Hartmut (2025): "Edessa (Fourth Century bc to the Eighth Century ad)". In: Raja, Rubina (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Oxford Academic, pp. 491-506.

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News
10.04.2025

Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility

A new series of lectures by the research center as part of the “Fixing Futures” exhibition on the implications of climate change and technological progress.

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