Third lecture of the 11th Dagmar Westberg Lectures By Christine M. Korsgaard. Korsgaard is one of the most important moral philosophers and Kant interpreters of our time. Her work is dedicated, among other things, to a justification of human dignity, a foundation for our right actions and the justification of the moral status of animals. […]
Under certain circumstances, the police are authorized to use force in exceptional cases to enforce police measures. This can lead to mistakes, overstepping of legal boundaries and abuse. At the same time, the practice resulting from this authority to use force is highly controversial in society. Against this background, specific uses of force by the […]
Symposium on racism in the police force From right-wing chat groups to racial profiling - a large number of racist incidents in the police force have become public in recent years. Scientific research also shows that racist and anti-democratic attitudes are widespread within the police force, even beyond these scandalized incidents. Studies make it clear […]
International Conference Registration: manstetten@em.uni-frankfurt.de Schedule as .pdf: Here... Schedule Thursday, November 14th 2024 13:00 - 13:30 GretaWagner: Welcome and Introduction 13:30 - 14:15 Annette Schnabel & Ulf Tranow (Düsseldorf): Scoping Out Solidarity - A Proposal for a Theoretical Approach to Analyzing the Boundaries of Solidarity 14:30 - 15:15 Stephan Lessenich (Frankfurt): Solidarity - the […]
Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Boukary Sawadogo (New York) Lecture: Blackness: Politics and Affect of Kinship in Little Senegal Little Senegal (2001) by the Algerian French director Rachid Bouchareb brings to the fore Africa's relation to Black America through intimacy, affect, and a space with fraught history to race and racism. While African […]
Second ConTrust Practice Forum Forum for exchange between science and practice, with Vera King, Andreas Schindel, Tobias Singelnstein, Tobias Wille, Nicole Deitelhoff, Florian Meesmann (Editorial Director MDR Aktuell), Ayse Asar, LL.M. (State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art) - requested and Rebecca C. Schmidt, among others Democracy is currently facing a question […]
Workshop How can diversity in university teaching be actively promoted and discrimination specifically prevented? What exactly contributes to an inclusive, respectful learning atmosphere? Where is discrimination hidden in all the digital tools we use? What role do subconscious prejudices play in the teaching context? And should mistakes happen: How can they be addressed and dealt […]
Public lecture Racism is a problem. Nobody wants to be a racist and yet racism persists in our society. What unconscious contribution do we make every day to maintaining racist normality? How can we counter political racism in our society? And what role do universities play as places of knowledge production? In his public lecture, […]
Workshop with Keynote "By now it is only too well known," wrote Judith N. Shklar in her first book, After Utopia, "that democracy is not inevitable, that it may be destroyed from within, and that even the most successful constitutional democracies are not the models of social perfection that the Enlightenment had dreamed about." In […]