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LA PERMISSION (FR 1967. D: Melvin van Peebles)

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Greg de Cuir Jr Lecture: A Black American in Paris Melvin van Peebles left the United States to live and work in Europe in 1959, and was invited to Paris for screenings on the strength of the short films he had made a few years earlier. After finding […]

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The Power of Democracy

Please register in advance: haeusler@soz.uni-frankfurt.de   Programs 10:00 Welcome and Introduction: Martin Saar 10:30 Keynote: Clarissa Hayward: "Power: A Structural View" (Moderation: Martin Saar) 11:45 Coffee 12:15 Rainer Forst: "Noumenal Power and Democracy" Regina Kreide: "Digital Power. The Mimicry of Authoritarianism " Uwe Volkmann: "The Power of Democracy: A Legal Perspective" (Moderation: Elif Oezmen) 14:15 […]

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Philosophy and Public Policy

Tandem Workshop with Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) and Louis Larue (Aalborg) Organized by Katarina Pitasse Fragoso (JQYA Fellow) Please register here...   Programs 17h30h - Introduction - Katarina Pitasse Fragoso (Frankfurt Goethe University) 17h45 - The Philosophers Have Only Interpreted the World - Jonathan Wolff (Oxford University) 18h15 - Respondent - Louis Larue (Aalborg University) 18:35 […]

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Critique of punitive reason. Studies on justice, vulnerability and pain

Book workshop Introduction to the debate: Klaus Günther & Benno Zabel Registration requested at: office.zabel@jur.uni-frankfurt.de March 14 and 15, 2025   Program March 14, 2025 14.00 to 16.00 Panel I Moderation: Jochen Bung Critique of the resilient and sovereign subject of punishment (chapters 3, 5 and 6) Doris Schweitzer, Max Pichl and Klaus Günther What […]

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The end of the West – What’s next?

57th Römerberg Talks Die globale politische Landschaft hat sich verändert. Ist es zu früh, das „Ende des Westens“ zu verkünden? Die Wertegemeinschaft, die ihn einst ausmachte, scheint jedenfalls gespalten und geschwächt. Nicht nur Europas Verhältnis zu den USA muss in den nächsten Jahren neu austariert werden. Global sind autoritäre Regime, denen Rechtsstaat und Menschenrechte nichts […]

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Fundamental and human rights in Europe. 75 years of the ECHR, 25 years of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

XXIV Walter Hallstein Colloquium The 24th Walter Hallstein Colloquium is taking two anniversaries as an opportunity to look at the protection of fundamental and human rights in Europe. The year 2025 will mark the 75th anniversary of the signing of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), and 25 […]

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Justice as a topic of jurisprudence – continuity and change from an intergenerational perspective

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, […]

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Sustainability and justice

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 - […]

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Flânoirie: inscribing mobility through walking in Black German film

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. […]

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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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