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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lecture by Professor Simone Chambers (Professor and Chair of Political Science at UC Irvine, currently Fellow at the Research Centre Normative Orders)
Lecture by Ayo Coly (Dartmouth) with a screening of “The Pirogue” (2013).
Lecture series: Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies Lecture by: Prof. Dr. Astrid Jacobsen (IKRIS / Police Academy of Lower Saxony) 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 […]
Lecture as part of the series "Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility" Lecture by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz (Professor of Public Law at Goethe University, former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court) As part of the exhibition "FIXING FUTURES: Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control", the MGGU - Museum Giersch […]
Vortrag von Jeffrey Kopstein Professor der Politikwissenschaft an der University of California, Irvine) über die Gefahr einer Erosion des Staates und Wege gegen den Trend zur Zerstörung.