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 […]
Academia meets Diplomacy With Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe University, ConTrust) and Norman Thatcher Scharpf (Consul General of the United States of America) Moderation: Prof. Dr. Tobias Wille (Goethe University, ConTrust) Welcome: Dr. Rebekka Göhring (Goethe University) and Astrid v. d. Malsburg (Frauen mit Format) Please register in advance am@frauenmitformat.de "Academia meets Diplomacy" is a […]
Dilapidated cars speeding along potholed country roads, cab drivers loitering in cheap bars, pimping and opium trafficking, sensual attractions and fistfights: Satyajit Ray and his lead actor Soumitra Chatterjee invite us into a world of physical impulses and spaces beyond what is usually associated with Ray's oeuvre. Film historian Ravi Vasudevan is the co-director of […]
Lecture by Christoph Burchard (GU Frankfurt, ConTrust, Normative Orders)
The Methods Lab is a workshop dedicated to the critical discussion of methodological approaches to trust research. By means of the inputs of two external invited scholars, the participants will discuss the applications, strengths and limitations of both qualitative and quantitative methods. To workshop aims at ConTrust and affiliated scholars, as well as other researchers […]
Lecture by Matthias Jahn (GU Frankfurt)
Frankfurt Conference on the Report of the Independent Expert Group of the Federal Government Anti-Muslim racism is a problem in Germany and manifests itself in different ways in all parts of society - this is the conclusion of the Independent Expert Group on Anti-Muslim Racism set up by the German government. After more than two […]
For a very long time, European countries suppressed or even legitimized their own colonial history instead of dealing with its consequences in public. In the meantime, however, looted art, monuments and street names are just as much the subject of public debate as whitewashing narratives of the colonial past. As a result, truth commissions have […]
Lecture by Adom Getachew, University of Chicago Organizer: Heisenberg Professorship for Political Science with a focus on Political Theory, History of Ideas and Theories of Economics in cooperation with the Colloquium on Political Theory and the research initiative "ConTrust - Trust in Conflict"