Events calendar

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 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 […]

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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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News from the research center

Event
17.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Agency Under Oppression: Feminist Perspectives

Conference

International Conference on agency, heternonmy and the current opression of feminist perspectives. Among others with Manon Garcia, Serene Khader, Regina Schidel and Francesca Cesarano.

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Event
22.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Rechtsextremismus und Polizei - Erscheinungsformen, Umgangsweisen, Perspektiven

Panel Discussion

Die Diskussion knüpft an den Sammelband „Rechtsextremismus als Herausforderung für Polizei und Gesellschaft“ an, der aktuelle Perspektiven aus Wissenschaft, Praxis und Zivilgesellschaft zusammenführt.

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News
18.05.2026

Videopodcast-Reihe „Our Planet, Our Health“ gestartet

Mit „Our Planet, Our Health“ startet eine neue Videopodcast-Reihe zu Fragen globaler Gesundheitsgerechtigkeit. Die Reihe, gehostet von Dr. Romina Rekers, ist eine Initiative des Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme (GHJ), gefördert von der Höppschen Stiftung.

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Publication
12.05.2026 | Online article

Disinhibited Informalization: Talk Radio, Bro Podcasts and the Aesthetics of Populism

This essay by Johannes Völz is a revised and updated translation of “Enthemmte Informalisierung: Talk Radio, Bro-Podcasts und die Ästhetik des Populismus,” WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 22.2 (2025): 3–24. It is published here as part of the b2o Review’s “Stop the Right” dossier.

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Event
25./26.06.2026 | Frankfurt

Shifting Regimes, Changing Orders

Conference

Conference as part of WDC2026 in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (DGTF), Kunstgewerbemuseum/Design Campus SKD and Design and Democracy

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Publication
22.04.2026 | Chapter

Körpergeschlecht und Selbstbestimmung

Britz, Gabriele (2026): "Körpergeschlecht und Selbstbestimmung". In. Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.): Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft, Nomos, S. 41-48.

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Publication
22.04.2026 | Chapter

Festrede zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard), 4. April 2025

Schmidt, Rebecca Caroline; Forst, Rainer; Günther, Klaus (2026): "Festrede zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard), 4. April 2025". In: Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.): Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft, Nomos, S. 13-18.

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Publication
22.04.2026 | Anthology

Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft: Kontinuität und Wandel in intergenerationeller Betrachtung

Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.) (2026): "Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft: Kontinuität und Wandel in intergenerationeller Betrachtung". Nomos.

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