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, security and sustainability in the world. It is not only bound by its fundamental values in its internal actions; human rights, the rule of law […]
Presentation by Prof. Dr. Louis Kotzé (Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa) Participation also possible via Zoom: Here... ID code: 401979 Or by dial-in via the app: Webinar ID: 650 7980 7777 ID code: 401979
The films of Satyajit Ray's Calcutta trilogy, made between 1970 and 1976, illuminate the educated, urban burgeoisie of his hometown. Realized between PRATIDWANDI (The Rival, 1970) and JANA ARANYA (The Mediator, 1976), SEEMABADDHA (Restricted) criticizes the corruption, exploitation and moral laxity that Ray saw as accompanying the rise of a new middle class. Daniel Fairfax […]
ConTrust Research seminar "India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia" With S. V. Srinivas The rapid transformation of films into media content in the 21st century is coeval with the proliferation of screens, and sites of engagement with moving images. Interestingly, the media ecology in […]
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 to be "as ordinary and unremarkable to us as trees, daylight, and dirt" (Edwards 2002). Because of their size and scale, they are also largely […]
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 […]
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 - […]
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 […]
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 […]