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09.07.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Democracy: Principles and Practice, Resilience and Innovation

Annual Conference of the Research Program “Zeitenwenden. Normative Ordnungen im Umbruch?”

A registration is necessary, please register here or at the bottom of this page.

Thursday, 9 July

15:00 – 15:15 | Rainer Forst & Thomas Biebricher (Goethe University)
Introduction

15:15 – 16:15 | Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto)
The Public Use of Reason

16:30 – 17:30 | Astrid Séville (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
Sentimentality and Objectivity [Sachlichkeit]: A Problem History of Democracy

17:45 – 18:45 | John McCormick (University of Chicago)
Rousseau, Schmitt, and the Legitimization of Minoritarian “Democracy”

Friday, 10 July

10:15 – 11:15 | Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)
Political Freedom: The Struggle of Our Time

11:30 – 12:30 | Claudia Landwehr (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
From Promises to Procedures: Equal Deliberative Responsiveness as a Criterion for Successful Democratic Representation

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch Break

13:15 – 14:15 | Hubertus Buchstein (University of Greifswald)
Against Vulgar Democracy!

14:30 – 15:30 | Peter Niesen (University of Hamburg)
Countering Democratic Regression: Is Political Constitutionalism the Answer?

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