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Legal battles in the Anthropocene. A legal-theoretical discussion of legal procedures for climate protection

Lecture as part of the event series "Climate in court/Climate Contested" with Prof. Dr. Dr. Maximilian Pichl (RheinMain University of Applied Sciences) The event series "Klima vor Gericht/Climate Contested. Interdisciplinary perspectives on law(s) in the ecological crisis" addresses the complex interplay between climate change and law. Lectures, panel discussions and debates will discuss from an […]

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MANDABI The Postal Money Order (SN 1968. D: Ousmane Sembene)

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Daniel Fairfax (Frankfurt) Lecture: Symbolic Capital: Mandabi (1968) by Ousmane Sembene An adaptation of his own novella Le Mandat, Ousmane Sembene's Mandabi (1968) was the first feature-length film made in the Wolof language, following Senegalese independence in 1960. The protagonist Ibrahima (Makhouredia Gueye), an endearingly feckless unemployed man […]

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Police, racism and civil society – (im)possibilities of coming to terms with the past

Keynote and symposium Please register at frickel@em.uni-frankfurt.de. Program (pdf): Here... Program January 16, 2025, 6 p.m. Keynote Vanessa E. Thompson (Queen's University Canada | International Independent Commission to Investigate the Death of Oury Jalloh) Symposium January 17, 2025 10.00-11:30 Panel 1 20 years of struggle for clarification: the Oury Jalloh case Initiative in […]

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SAMBIZANGA (1972. D: Sarah Maldoror)

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Jennifer Blaylock (Rowan University) Lecture: The Thin Green Line Between Canons and Revolutions. On Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga (1972) What happens to the revolutionary grainy aesthetics, the militancy of the imperfect image, the subversive qualities of the damaged 16mm print, when a film enters the artistic canon? This talk […]

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Trust and Conflict: Taking stock and looking ahead

Final annual conference of the ConTrust initiative Program January 23, 2025 15:00 Welcome (Spokespersons of ConTrust) 15:15 Panel 1 The Justification of Trust Moderation: Prof. Greta Wagner (Goethe University) Prof. Rainer Forst (Goethe University), Dr. Chiara Destri (Goethe University), Dr. Regina Schidel (Goethe University), Prof. Mark Warren (University of British Columbia) 17:15 Coffee Break 18:00 […]

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Key Works of Afro-Brazilian Short Film

Lecture & Film: Black Atlantic Cinema Lecture: Janaína Oliveira (Rio de Janeiro) Lecture: Key Works of Afro-Brazilian Short Film Janaína Oliveira has a Ph.D. in History and is a professor at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ). She is Head Programmer at the Zózimo Bulbul Black Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro and […]

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Law in the Anthropocene

Lecture as part of the event series "Climate in court/Climate Contested" with Dr. Johan Horst (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) and Prof'in. Dr. Doris Schweitzer (Goethe University) from the DFG network "Law in the Anthropocene". The event series "Klima vor Gericht/Climate Contested. Interdisciplinary perspectives on law(s) in the ecological crisis" addresses […]

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Materialism. Between Totality and Plurality

Workshop Please register at: jonas.heller@normativeorders.net Thursday, January 30th, 16:00-18:00 Introduction: Simon Gurisch Panel 1: Race Reference: Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection Participants: Penny Deutscher (Northwestern), Juliane Rebentisch (Hamburg) Moderation: Rime Abd Al Majeed Friday, January 31st 10:00-12:00: Panel 2: Gender Reference: Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter Participants: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum), Adriana Zaharijević (Beograd) Moderation: Hannah […]

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Democratic cohesion

In contemporary political discussions, diagnoses of a crisis of democracy are often linked to the statement that social cohesion is at risk and needs to be strengthened. However, the answers to the question of what form of cohesion is characteristic and desirable for a democracy are diverse. They range from nationalist to cosmopolitan positions, from […]

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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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