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Can Trust Be Engineered? Biometric infrastructures and the African Financial Revolution

ConTrust Speaker Series Lecture by Keith Breckenridge (University of the Witwatersrand) So via Zoom. Please register in advance: office@normativeorders.net A standard assumption of research is that trust and conflict stand in opposition and exclude one another. The ConTrust Speaker Series questions that assumption and inquires into the dynamics of trust and conflict in various contexts […]

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Climate change and justice

Lecture by Juliane Engel and Thomas Hickler (GU Frankfurt) Participation via Zoom here... Meeting ID: 941 9219 9198 ID code: 810115 Part of the virtual lecture series "Climate Crisis and Criminal Law" 1st block "Climate Criminal Law in the Narrower Sense - Climate Protection Criminal Law" Organizer Research Center "Normative Orders", research initiative "ConTrust - […]

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Who is authoritarian?

Prof. Dr. Vera King (Goethe University Frankfurt, Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute) in conversation with Alf Mentzer (journalist at Hessischer Rundfunk) Admission 3 euros. Tickets at the box office or in advance: Here... Organizer: Dezernat für Kultur und Wissenschaft der Stadt Frankfurt am Main and Forschungszentrum "Normative Ordnungen" der Goethe-Universität in cooperation with the […]

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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 People and politicians in all countries are increasingly aware of the immediate and long-term dangers of climate change. And yet the consumption of fossil fuels […]

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Final discussion and outlook

with Christoph Burchard / Finn-Lauritz Schmidt (GU Frankfurt, ConTrust, Normative Orders) Participation via Zoom here... Meeting ID: 941 9219 9198 ID code: 810115 Part of the virtual lecture series "Climate Crisis and Criminal Law" 3rd block: "Climate Change and Criminal Law - Basics" Organizer Research Center "Normative Orders", research initiative "ConTrust - Trust in Conflict" […]

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(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 Center "Normative Orders", Goethe University Frankfurt) Lecture Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther (Research Centre "Normative Orders", Goethe University Frankfurt) Followed by a panel discussion with Prof. […]

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On the crises in Israel, the Israel-Palestine conflict and contemporary forms of anti-Semitism

Conference With contributions by Eran Rolnik (Tel Aviv), Shirin Atili (Esslingen), José Brunner (Tel Aviv) and Kurt Grünberg (Frankfurt/M.)   Please note: Due to the high level of interest , participation is unfortunately only possible online. The corresponding link will be sent out a few days in advance. REGISTRATION please only until February 20, 2024 […]

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Democracy and the Public Sphere

XXIIIrd Walter Hallstein Symposium Signs of democratic decay can currently be observed in various member states. The Walter Hallstein Colloquium 2024 is dedicated to European democracy and the public sphere in light of this year's elections to the European Parliament. The topic is multi-layered and not limited to jurisprudence. The colloquium will therefore take an […]

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News from the research center

Event
18.04.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Das Prinzip Donald Trump und die Verrohung der Welt

Panel Discussion, Lecture

Ein neuer Politikstil macht international Karriere. Er ist gekennzeichnet von Vulgarität, Verrohung und erklärter Rechtsfeindschaft. Machtinteressen werden nicht mehr juristisch bemäntelt. Stattdessen wird das angebliche Recht des Stärkeren zur Staatsdoktrin gemacht – innenpolitisch wie außenpolitisch. Treibende Kraft hinter dieser Verrohung der politischen Sitten ist ein US-Präsident, der nicht nur die amerikanische Gesellschaft und Kultur, sondern auch die globale Ordnung nach seinen Vorstellungen und Interessen umgestaltet. Die Römerberggespräche wollen diesen Politikstil verstehen.

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Event
29.04.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Kulturindustrie heute?

Panel Discussion

Das Gespräch „Kulturindustrie heute?“ widmet sich der Aktualität und Tragfähigkeit eines zentralen Begriffs der Kritischen Theorie. Die Filmwissenschaftlerin Gertrud Koch diskutiert im Rahmen der Gesprächsreihe "Frankfurter Schule" mit dem Filmkritiker Bert Rebhandl die gegenwärtigen Formen kultureller Produktion und Verbreitung vor dem Hintergrund von Digitalisierung, Plattformen und globalen Medienmärkten.

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Event
20.03.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

40 Jahre Schengen-Raum

Colloquium

Der 1984 geschlossene Schengen-Vertrag schuf einen heute 29 Staaten umfassenden Raum ohne Binnengrenzen, doch Migration über die Außengrenzen führte zuletzt zur Wiedereinführung von Kontrollen, auch durch die Bundesregierung ab 8. Mai 2025. Das Walter Hallstein-Kolloquium diskutiert die rechtliche Zulässigkeit, wirtschaftliche Folgen insbesondere für Arbeitsmigration und Arbeitsmarkt sowie die Zukunft des Schengen-Raums.

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News
12.02.2026

Satanist politics and the decline of reason in liberal democracies

For the last time in the winter semester 2025/26, the Research Center hosted the lecture series "Am Scheidepunkt. On the crisis of democracy". At the end, philosopher Michael Rosen from Harvard University presented his concept of "satanic politics" as a variant of the political interpretation of the world.

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News
09.02.2026

On the topicality of the concept of violence based on Camus and Derrida

Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt from the University of St. Gallen gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence as part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", she gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence. Under the title "Defending democracies. On the topicality of the concept of violence in Camus and Derrida", the philosopher discussed forms of violence and revolt and categorized them with regard to a democratic setting.

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Publication
04.02.2026 | Journal article

New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts

Wille, Tobias; Simon, Hendrik; Daase, Christopher; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Wheeler, Nicholas J.; Holmes, Marcus; Rathbun, Brian C.; Acharya, Amitav; Mitzen, Jennifer (2026): „New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts“. In: International Studies Review 28 (1), viaf027.

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News
02.02.2026

States competing for people - David Owen on civil geopolitics

As part of the lecture series "At the Crossroads - The Future of Democracy", David Owen from the University of Southampton presented his concept of civil geopolitics.

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News
20.01.2026

Christine Hentschel on reorientation in catastrophic times

As part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", the sociologist spoke about living in and dealing with catastrophic times. Against the backdrop of the destruction of living conditions, wars, permanent crises and threats to democracy, Hentschel addressed the infiltration of the catastrophic into everyday social life and a changing activist and literary approach to the future.

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Publication
08.01.2026 | Journal article

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes; Laudenbach, Christine (2025): „Gender Differences in Financial Advice“. In: American Economic Review, 115 (12), pp. 4218–4252.

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