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Capitalism without democracy

Book presentation Quinn Slobodian presents his new book "Capitalism without Democracy" (lecture in English) About the book: According to investor Peter Thiel in 2009, freedom and democracy are no longer compatible. Those who love freedom must therefore try to escape politics in all its forms. Libertarians could seek refuge in cyberspace, in outer space and […]

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The Mouth of Calcutta: The Indian New Wave in Satyajit Ray’s PRATIDWANDI – Bishnupriya Ghosh (Santa Barbara)

PRATIDWANDI (The Rival) is a sharp-eyed portrait of Ray's beloved home city of Calcutta in the midst of political and social upheaval. The film is also Ray's examination of the new Indian cinema and Third Cinema. The exploration of political subjectivity, masculinity and social decline goes hand in hand with aesthetic experiments in dealing with […]

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What is solidarity?

Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich (Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Social Research) in conversation with Meredith Haaf (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Admission 3 Euro. Tickets: Here... Further information: Here....

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Last Generation – Criminal organization or radical democratic movement?

Lecture by Daria Bayer (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 - Trust in Conflict" […]

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Relationality of human dignity. On the status of people with cognitive impairments in terms of justice theory

Book lɔ:ntʃ With: Dr. Regina Schidel (member of the research initiative ConTrut at the Research Center "Normative Orders" at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) Campus Publishing 2023 All people in our society should be considered equal in a fundamental sense. Discrimination structures that restrict people's value and participation undermine this normative principle. Regina Schidel analyzes […]

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Restoring Ray: JALSAGHAR and the geo-politics of preserving cinema – Amrita Biswas (Frankurt)

Who creates and preserves the canon of cinema? If you follow the material history of Satyajit Ray's JALSAGHAR, which tells the story of the downfall of a music-obsessed landowner, you come across a global power structure for archiving, preserving and restoring films. Using the journey around the world of the camera negative, the "original" of […]

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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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