Events calendar

Transitioning into Noise: 1930s Film Technology Debates in India

Lecture Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh) Using film excerpts, ads for sound recording and projection equipment, sound technicians' columns, as well as reports by and about salesmen-technicians, such as the Americans Wilford Deming Jr. and C. Willman, this talk will present debates about audio technologies and sonic cultures circulating in India during the period of […]

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How to speak anyway?

Panel discussion on the publication of "Talk anyway" With: Julia Yael Alfandari, Christoph Menke, Hanna Pfeifer and Nahed Samour Moderation: Miryam Schellbach In the wake of the Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023 and the subsequent Gaza war and the resulting humanitarian catastrophe, insinuations, violations and (demands for) one-sided positioning in German politics […]

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Targeted violence against social activists: data, patterns, and cases

International workshop Recent years have seen an incipient debate about the targeted violence against social activists, with a focus on the killing of human rights defenders, environmental activists, local community leaders, and representatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) broadly speaking. Whereas violence against civilians in (civil) war contexts is an established field of study, research […]

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Persistent differences: attitudes towards migration and gender in East and West Germany

Prof. Dr. Daniela Grunow (Professor of Sociology with a focus on "Quantitative Analyses of Social Change", Research Institute for Social Cohesion, Normative Orders) and Dr. Mirko K. Braack (Post-Doc at the Frankfurt branch of the Research Institute for Social Cohesion, Normative Orders) More than 30 years after German reunification, there are still major differences between […]

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Judgment and public spirit

Workshop (in German) on Sabine Müller-Mall's theory of law Program Monday, October 7, 1 p.m. Welcome and introduction Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther and Prof. Dr. Benno Zabel 13.30 Introduction to the debate Prof. Dr. Sabine Müller-Mall 2.00 p.m. What does it mean to make legal judgments? (1st panel) Topic: What is a judgment? What is […]

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A DEUSA NEGRA (Black Goddess. BR/NG 1979. D: Ola Balogun)

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Introduction: Didi Cheeka (Lagos) and Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt, ConTrust) Lecture: Crossing the Black Atlantic: Ola Balogun and A Deusa Negra (1978) Reversing the course of the middle passage a significant number of relatively well-to-do Afro-Brazilian families relocated from Brazil to Lagos in Nigeria in the early20th century. In his […]

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The Incomparable Value of the Individual

First 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. […]

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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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