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The Law in These Parts

The Record and the Narrative. The Documentary Cinema of Ra'anan Alexandrowicz Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, born in Jerusalem in 1969, is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our time. His award-winning cinematic investigations into questions of law, power and testimony in Israel and Palestine are shown at all the world's major festivals. "The Law in […]

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The Inner Tour

The Record and the Narrative. The Documentary Cinema of Ra'anan Alexandrowicz Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, born in Jerusalem in 1969, is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our time. His award-winning cinematic investigations into questions of law, power and testimony in Israel and Palestine are shown at all the world's major festivals. "The Law in […]

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The Viewing Booth

The Record and the Narrative. The Documentary Cinema of Ra'anan Alexandrowicz Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, born in Jerusalem in 1969, is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our time. His award-winning cinematic investigations into questions of law, power and testimony in Israel and Palestine are shown at all the world's major festivals. "The Law in […]

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LA PERMISSION (FR 1967. D: Melvin van Peebles)

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Greg de Cuir Jr Lecture: A Black American in Paris Melvin van Peebles left the United States to live and work in Europe in 1959, and was invited to Paris for screenings on the strength of the short films he had made a few years earlier. After finding […]

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The Power of Democracy

Please register in advance: haeusler@soz.uni-frankfurt.de   Programs 10:00 Welcome and Introduction: Martin Saar 10:30 Keynote: Clarissa Hayward: "Power: A Structural View" (Moderation: Martin Saar) 11:45 Coffee 12:15 Rainer Forst: "Noumenal Power and Democracy" Regina Kreide: "Digital Power. The Mimicry of Authoritarianism " Uwe Volkmann: "The Power of Democracy: A Legal Perspective" (Moderation: Elif Oezmen) 14:15 […]

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Philosophy and Public Policy

Tandem Workshop with Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) and Louis Larue (Aalborg) Organized by Katarina Pitasse Fragoso (JQYA Fellow) Please register here...   Programs 17h30h - Introduction - Katarina Pitasse Fragoso (Frankfurt Goethe University) 17h45 - The Philosophers Have Only Interpreted the World - Jonathan Wolff (Oxford University) 18h15 - Respondent - Louis Larue (Aalborg University) 18:35 […]

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Critique of punitive reason. Studies on justice, vulnerability and pain

Book workshop Introduction to the debate: Klaus Günther & Benno Zabel Registration requested at: office.zabel@jur.uni-frankfurt.de March 14 and 15, 2025   Program March 14, 2025 14.00 to 16.00 Panel I Moderation: Jochen Bung Critique of the resilient and sovereign subject of punishment (chapters 3, 5 and 6) Doris Schweitzer, Max Pichl and Klaus Günther What […]

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The end of the West – What’s next?

57th Römerberg Talks Die globale politische Landschaft hat sich verändert. Ist es zu früh, das „Ende des Westens“ zu verkünden? Die Wertegemeinschaft, die ihn einst ausmachte, scheint jedenfalls gespalten und geschwächt. Nicht nur Europas Verhältnis zu den USA muss in den nächsten Jahren neu austariert werden. Global sind autoritäre Regime, denen Rechtsstaat und Menschenrechte nichts […]

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Fundamental and human rights in Europe. 75 years of the ECHR, 25 years of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

XXIV Walter Hallstein Colloquium The 24th Walter Hallstein Colloquium is taking two anniversaries as an opportunity to look at the protection of fundamental and human rights in Europe. The year 2025 will mark the 75th anniversary of the signing of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), and 25 […]

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News from the research center

Event
19.11.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Unerwünscht. Die westdeutsche Demokratie und die Verfolgten des NS-Regimes

Book Presentation

Der Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum schildert die Erfahrungen von überlebenden Juden und Sinti und Roma, von ehemaligen Zwangsarbeitern und Homosexuellen in Westdeutschland in der Nachkriegszeit.

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News
04.09.2025

Rainer Forst awarded the Goethe Plakette of the City of Frankfurt am Main

On September 4, 2025, the political philosopher and Director of the Research Centre Normative Orders Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst was awarded the Goethe Plakette of the City of Frankfurt am Main. With this award, the city honors personalities who have set standards far beyond Frankfurt's borders through their academic work and/or their public impact.

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Event
15.10.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Aufrecht. Überleben im Zeitalter der Extreme

Book Presentation

ACHTUNG RAUMÄNDERUNG! In ihrem jüngsten Werk begibt sich Lea Ypi auf eine Reise in die Vergangenheit ihrer Familie und verknüpft persönliche Erinnerungen mit den großen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Umbrüchen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen lädt gemeinsam mit dem Netzwerk FrauenmitFormat, dem Honorarkonsulat der Republik Albanien in Frankfurt am Main und dem Suhrkamp Verlag herzlich zur Vorstellung des neuen Buches von Prof. Dr. Lea Ypi mit anschließender Diskussionsrunde mit Prof. Dr. Lea Ypi, Honorarkonsulin Dr. Jonela Hoxhaj und Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst unter der Moderation von Rebecca C. Schmidt ein.

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Publication
02.09.2025 | Journal article

Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration

Schmid, Lukas; Ruhs, Martin; Bauböck, Rainer; Mourão Permoser, Julia (2025): "Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration". In: Ethics & International Affairs, 39 (1), S. 26-36.

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Publication
01.09.2025 | Journal article

Roundtable: Ethical Dilemmas and Migration Policymaking

Schmid, Lukas; Ruhs, Martin; Bauböck Rainer, Mourão Permoser, Julia (Hrsg.) (2025): "Roundtable: Ethical Dilemmas and Migration Policymaking". In: Ethics & International Affairs, 39 (1)

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Publication
21.08.2025 | Anthology

Autoritäre Treiber eines Systemwechsels. Zur Destabilisierung von Institutionen durch die AfD

Frankenberg, Günter; Heitmeyer, Wilhelm (Hrsg.) (2025): Autoritäre Treiber eines Systemwechsels. Zur Destabilisierung von Institutionen durch die AfD. Campus Verlag.

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News
31.07.2025

Shaping the future - a review

As part of the exhibition "Fixing Futures. Planetary futures between speculation and control", our four-part lecture series "Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility" took place.

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News
30.07.2025

What remains of "1968" - event review

What can we learn from the 1968 movement for our own time and where do we perhaps need new ideas and utopias? The event "Utopia and awakening of the 1968ers - What remains of political rebellion and individual self-liberation" on July 14, 2025 at the Historisches Museum was dedicated to these questions

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News
10.07.2025

Impressions from the Crisis Talk "Europe in a multipolar world"

The Crisis Talk "Europe in a multipolar world - How can the EU meet the challenges of major powers?" held on July 1, 2025 at the Representation of the State of Hesse to the European Union was dedicated to the question of how the EU should shape its influence and assume its responsibilities in this international environment.

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