GB 2017 | Director: Sally Potter | Running time: 71 minutes To celebrate her appointment as Health Minister in the British shadow cabinet, Janet invites her friends to a party. But when her husband Bill makes a serious confession to the guests, the situation tips over. The moral certainties and ideological convictions of the left-liberal, […]
Book lɔ:ntʃ With: Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase (Professor of International Organizations, Member of the Research Center "Normative Orders" at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, PRIF) transcript publisher 2023 In the second year of the Russian war against Ukraine, its global distortions are becoming increasingly apparent: The war is undermining the ability of international organizations to […]
Book Launch with Prof. Lisbeth Zimmermann, Prof. Nicole Deitelhoff, Dr. Max Lesch, Antonio Arcudi and Anton Peez Moderator: Prof. Tobias Wille About the Book International norms, institutions, and the international order itself are increasingly under challenge in virtually every policy area - from human rights and global health, through trade and climate change, to arms […]
Panel discussion The last generation is the subject of controversial social debate. On the one hand, the forms of protest and the group itself are exposed to criminal prosecution; on the other hand, civil disobedience as a political practice is ascribed a significant role in the socio-ecological transformation of society. In any case, the actions […]
Panel discussion With: Alenka Zupančič, Mladen Dolar, Slavoj Žižek,Rainer Forst, Regina Kreide and Martin Saar Moderation: Frank Ruda The contemporary world seems to be in disarray: an impending (or rather, already occurred) ecological crisis of unprecedented magnitude is juxtaposed with unprecedented forms of socio-economic and political inequality; new forms of technological domination and control coincide […]
Lecture by Philipp-Alexander Hirsch (MPI Freiburg) 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 - Trust in Conflict" […]
Satyajit Ray's first film not only made its director famous, it was also the first film from India to be successful with audiences in India and which critics and cinephiles in Europe and the USA were able to classify in their own categories. Where does this dual resonance come from? Ray himself thinks about art […]
Lecture by Rob White (University of Tasmania) Participation via Zoom here... Meeting-ID: 941 9219 9198 Identification code: 810115
ConTrust Speaker Series Lecture by James Tunde Yeku (HU Berlin) My talk examines to what extent digital humour mediates encounters of public conflict and trust between internet subjects and the state in Nigeria. Specifically, I reflect on how the country's police apparatus functions as a mirror of the neurosis and antinomies of the Nigerian state […]