Events calendar

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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Justice as a topic of jurisprudence – continuity and change from an intergenerational perspective

Scientific symposium in honor of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard) The symposium is dedicated to the still underexposed questions of the connection between statutory law and justice, as they arise in particular in cases of discriminatory exclusion of categorically defined groups of people, such as the disadvantage of women. With this topic, […]

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Sustainability and justice

Lecture as part of the series "Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility" Lecture by Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at Goethe University, Director of the "Normative Orders" Research Centre) As part of the exhibition "FIXING FUTURES: Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control", the MGGU - […]

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Flânoirie: inscribing mobility through walking in Black German film

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Karina Griffith (Berlin) A young university student searches for a room to let. An American GI searches for love between visiting record stores and gigging with his band. Olingo and They Call It Love, respectively, are both black and white student films featuring wandering Black male protagonists in Germany. […]

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“Motivation, attitudes and violence in the everyday lives of police officers”: The MEGAVO study

Lecture series: Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies Lecture by Dr. Jochen Wittenberg (DHPol) Reports from people affected by racism about unprovoked police checks, humiliation or problematic use of force by the police continue unabated. They occupy the public debate; numerous political initiatives have been fighting for clarification, in some […]

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Sociological knowledge of the environment. Between Gaia and atmosphere, milieu and environment

Spring Conference of the Sociological Theory Section of the DGS Please register at: bogner@soz.uni-frankfurt.de   Program Thursday, May 15, 2025 11.00-11.15 a.m. Greeting 11.15-13.30 Panel I: Historical perspectives Martin Hauff: The social organism and its surrounding sphere. The concept of the environment in Albert Schäffle, a systems theorist avant la lettre Arne Dreßler: Physical determinism […]

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Encruzilhadas das águas / Water Crossings, routes for the Black Brazilian Cinemas’ experiences

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Janaína Oliveira (Rio de Janeiro) "We are always in the middle of the journey," says essayist and poet Dionne Brand in A Map to the Door of No Return. The crossing of the Atlantic marks Black people's historical and aesthetic experiences, bringing fragmentation and incompleteness, but also the […]

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The discreet charm of the old Indies: Congo, Brazil, and colonial fantasy in a French baroque tapestry

Kantorowicz Lecture Lecture by Cécile Fromont (Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Faculty Director of the Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at Harvard University) A tropical menagerie set in a lush landscape surrounds almost imperceptible human characters and architectural structures in the eight tableaux of the Old Indies, a Baroque […]

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“Planetary Crime” – on the end of the political in the polycrisis

Lecture as part of the series "Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility" Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christoph Burchard (Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, International and European Criminal Law, Comparative Law and Legal Theory at Goethe University, founding spokesperson of the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S), Research Center […]

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News from the research center

Event
10.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Satanic Politics. Democracy after Liberalism

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Michael Rosen (Harvard University) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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04.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Demokratien verteidigen. Zur Aktualität des Gewaltbegriffs bei Camus und Derrida

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Abbt (Universität St. Gallen) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
29.01.2026

Civil Geopolitics and the Dilemmas of the Democratic State

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von David Owen (Universtiy of Southampton) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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14.01.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Vortrag von Christine Hentschel (Universität Hamburg)

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Hentschel (Universität Hamburg) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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10.12.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

How Democracy Relies on the Future

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Jonathan White (LSE) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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26.11.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Krise der Demokratietheorie? Eine soziologische Intervention

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Jenni Brichzin (Universität der Bundeswehr München) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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27./28.11.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Reconsidering Legal Subjectivity In and Through the Anthropocene

Conference

Internationale Konferenz organisiert vom Wissenschaftsnetzwerk Recht im Anthropozän (RiA) in Kooperation mit dem Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen.

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News
23.10.2025

Vinzenz Hediger becomes new director of the Cinémathèque suisse

Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger will become Director of the Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne from January 2026. The Cinémathèque suisse has been preserving, restoring and promoting Swiss and international film heritage since 1948. It is recognized by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) as one of the ten most important cinematheques in the world - due to the size, diversity and quality of its collections.

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News
23.10.2025

Book launch of Lea Ypis "Indignity. A Life Reimagined" at the Frankfurt Book Fair

As part of the book presentation of Lea Ypis "Indignity. A Life Reimagined" on October 15, questions about dignity, identity, freedom and responsibility in times of extreme historical change were discussed.

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