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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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Event
18.04.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Das Prinzip Donald Trump und die Verrohung der Welt

Panel Discussion, Lecture

Ein neuer Politikstil macht international Karriere. Er ist gekennzeichnet von Vulgarität, Verrohung und erklärter Rechtsfeindschaft. Machtinteressen werden nicht mehr juristisch bemäntelt. Stattdessen wird das angebliche Recht des Stärkeren zur Staatsdoktrin gemacht – innenpolitisch wie außenpolitisch. Treibende Kraft hinter dieser Verrohung der politischen Sitten ist ein US-Präsident, der nicht nur die amerikanische Gesellschaft und Kultur, sondern auch die globale Ordnung nach seinen Vorstellungen und Interessen umgestaltet. Die Römerberggespräche wollen diesen Politikstil verstehen.

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Event
29.04.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Kulturindustrie heute?

Panel Discussion

Das Gespräch „Kulturindustrie heute?“ widmet sich der Aktualität und Tragfähigkeit eines zentralen Begriffs der Kritischen Theorie. Die Filmwissenschaftlerin Gertrud Koch diskutiert im Rahmen der Gesprächsreihe "Frankfurter Schule" mit dem Filmkritiker Bert Rebhandl die gegenwärtigen Formen kultureller Produktion und Verbreitung vor dem Hintergrund von Digitalisierung, Plattformen und globalen Medienmärkten.

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Event
20.03.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

40 Jahre Schengen-Raum

Colloquium

Der 1984 geschlossene Schengen-Vertrag schuf einen heute 29 Staaten umfassenden Raum ohne Binnengrenzen, doch Migration über die Außengrenzen führte zuletzt zur Wiedereinführung von Kontrollen, auch durch die Bundesregierung ab 8. Mai 2025. Das Walter Hallstein-Kolloquium diskutiert die rechtliche Zulässigkeit, wirtschaftliche Folgen insbesondere für Arbeitsmigration und Arbeitsmarkt sowie die Zukunft des Schengen-Raums.

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News
12.02.2026

Satanist politics and the decline of reason in liberal democracies

For the last time in the winter semester 2025/26, the Research Center hosted the lecture series "Am Scheidepunkt. On the crisis of democracy". At the end, philosopher Michael Rosen from Harvard University presented his concept of "satanic politics" as a variant of the political interpretation of the world.

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News
09.02.2026

On the topicality of the concept of violence based on Camus and Derrida

Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt from the University of St. Gallen gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence as part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", she gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence. Under the title "Defending democracies. On the topicality of the concept of violence in Camus and Derrida", the philosopher discussed forms of violence and revolt and categorized them with regard to a democratic setting.

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Publication
04.02.2026 | Journal article

New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts

Wille, Tobias; Simon, Hendrik; Daase, Christopher; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Wheeler, Nicholas J.; Holmes, Marcus; Rathbun, Brian C.; Acharya, Amitav; Mitzen, Jennifer (2026): „New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts“. In: International Studies Review 28 (1), viaf027.

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News
02.02.2026

States competing for people - David Owen on civil geopolitics

As part of the lecture series "At the Crossroads - The Future of Democracy", David Owen from the University of Southampton presented his concept of civil geopolitics.

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News
20.01.2026

Christine Hentschel on reorientation in catastrophic times

As part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", the sociologist spoke about living in and dealing with catastrophic times. Against the backdrop of the destruction of living conditions, wars, permanent crises and threats to democracy, Hentschel addressed the infiltration of the catastrophic into everyday social life and a changing activist and literary approach to the future.

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Publication
08.01.2026 | Journal article

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes; Laudenbach, Christine (2025): „Gender Differences in Financial Advice“. In: American Economic Review, 115 (12), pp. 4218–4252.

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