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, […]
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 - […]
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. […]
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 […]
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)