Events calendar

Trump and the Assault on the State

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.

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The Black Altantic and the Politics of Self-Representation in the Cinema: A Critical Analysis of Mati Diop’s Atlantics (2019)

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Femi Shaka (Port Harcourt) Paul Gilroy's seminal work, The Black Atlantic (1993), is cardinal to an understanding of the "ideas of the nation, nationality, national belonging, and nationalism" as experienced by blacks in the diaspora. But as Zeleza (2005) noted, "Gilroy's central concern was to deconstruct the idea […]

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CANCELLED! Unwanted. West German democracy and those persecuted by the Nazi regime

Book presentation DUE TO THE EXPECTED HEAT AND THE SEVERE WEATHER WARNING FROM THE GERMAN WEATHER SERVICE, WE UNFORTUNATELY HAVE TO CANCEL THE EVENT. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FALL. Lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (spokesperson of the RISC Berlin site) followed by a discussion with Prof. Dr. Dr. Michel Friedman (lawyer and […]

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Diasporic Aesthetics, Intermedial Dialogues. The films of Nicolás Guillé Landrián

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Jessica Gordon-Burroughs (Edinburgh) Lecture: Diasporic Aesthetics, Intermedial Dialogues. The films of Nicolás Guillé Landrián Afro-Cuban filmmaker and artist Nicolás Guillén Landrián's final cinematic work in exile, Inside Downtown, co-directed with Jorge Egusquiza, has barely been discussed in the growing critical literature on his oeuvre. This omission points to […]

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A different view: The relevance of victims’ perspectives on policing and racism

Lecture series: Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies Leonie Fuchs (NaDiRa / DeZIM Institute) 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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Ecological social criticism, but how?

Lecture as part of the series "Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility" Lecture by Dr. des. Felix Kämper (Research associate at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion, Goethe University) As part of the exhibition "FIXING FUTURES: Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control", the MGGU - Museum Giersch of Goethe University, […]

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The Intimacies of Four Continents in Caribbean Cinema

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Usha Iyer (Stanford) his program of two films from the Caribbean - a fiction feature and a documentary will extend the frame of the Black Atlantic by considering connected migrations across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and histories of African enslavement and Asian indenture. The many connections and […]

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News from the research center

Publication
15.07.2026 | Monograph

Das Recht der Gewalt. Warum Waffen allein keinen Frieden schaffen

Simon, Hendrik (2026): Das Recht der Gewalt. Warum Waffen allein keinen Frieden schaffen. Ditzingen: Reclam.

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News
19.06.2026

International symposium honours the lifework of Jürgen Habermas

On Friday 19 June 2026, the Research Centre Normative Orders, in collaboration with Suhrkamp Verlag, paid tribute to the late Jürgen Habermas with an international symposium at Goethe University Frankfurt.

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News
18.05.2026

Videopodcast-Reihe „Our Planet, Our Health“ gestartet

Mit „Our Planet, Our Health“ startet eine neue Videopodcast-Reihe zu Fragen globaler Gesundheitsgerechtigkeit. Die Reihe, gehostet von Dr. Romina Rekers, ist eine Initiative des Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme (GHJ), gefördert von der Höppschen Stiftung.

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Publication
12.05.2026 | Online article

Disinhibited Informalization: Talk Radio, Bro Podcasts and the Aesthetics of Populism

Völz, Johannes (2026): "Disinhibited Informalization: Talk Radio, Bro Podcasts and the Aesthetics of Populism". In: b2o - boundary 2 online.

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Publication
22.04.2026 | Chapter

Körpergeschlecht und Selbstbestimmung

Britz, Gabriele (2026): "Körpergeschlecht und Selbstbestimmung". In. Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.): Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft, Nomos, S. 41-48.

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Publication
22.04.2026 | Chapter

Festrede zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard), 4. April 2025

Schmidt, Rebecca Caroline; Forst, Rainer; Günther, Klaus (2026): "Festrede zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Sacksofsky, M.P.A. (Harvard), 4. April 2025". In: Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.): Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft, Nomos, S. 13-18.

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Publication
22.04.2026 | Anthology

Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft: Kontinuität und Wandel in intergenerationeller Betrachtung

Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.) (2026): "Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft: Kontinuität und Wandel in intergenerationeller Betrachtung". Nomos.

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Publication
17.04.2026 | Anthology

European Democracy and Public Sphere

Kadelbach, Stefan (2026): „Development and Challenges of the European Union’s External Relations“. In: Isokaitė-Valužė, Indrė; Šinkūnas, Haroldas (Hrsg.): The European Union 2004–2024. Twenty Years of Legal Experience, Challenges and Growth after Unprecedented EU Enlargement, T.M.C. Asser Press, S. 223-236.

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