Events calendar

Policing Racism – Confronting (structural) racism in the police force

Symposium on racism in the police force From right-wing chat groups to racial profiling - a large number of racist incidents in the police force have become public in recent years. Scientific research also shows that racist and anti-democratic attitudes are widespread within the police force, even beyond these scandalized incidents. Studies make it clear […]

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Selective Solidarities in Times of Multiple Crises

International Conference Registration: manstetten@em.uni-frankfurt.de Schedule as .pdf: Here...   Schedule Thursday, November 14th 2024 13:00 - 13:30 GretaWagner: Welcome and Introduction 13:30 - 14:15 Annette Schnabel & Ulf Tranow (Düsseldorf): Scoping Out Solidarity - A Proposal for a Theoretical Approach to Analyzing the Boundaries of Solidarity 14:30 - 15:15 Stephan Lessenich (Frankfurt): Solidarity - the […]

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LITTLE SENEGAL (DZ/FR/DE 2001. D: Rachid Bouchareb)

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Boukary Sawadogo (New York) Lecture: Blackness: Politics and Affect of Kinship in Little Senegal Little Senegal (2001) by the Algerian French director Rachid Bouchareb brings to the fore Africa's relation to Black America through intimacy, affect, and a space with fraught history to race and racism. While African […]

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Limits of trust? – Areas of tension between science, politics and society

Second ConTrust Practice Forum Forum for exchange between science and practice, with Vera King, Andreas Schindel, Tobias Singelnstein, Tobias Wille, Nicole Deitelhoff, Florian Meesmann (Editorial Director MDR Aktuell), Ayse Asar, LL.M. (State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art) - requested and Rebecca C. Schmidt, among others Democracy is currently facing a question […]

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Making teaching diverse – How can diversity be promoted in the seminar context and discrimination stopped?

Workshop How can diversity in university teaching be actively promoted and discrimination specifically prevented? What exactly contributes to an inclusive, respectful learning atmosphere? Where is discrimination hidden in all the digital tools we use? What role do subconscious prejudices play in the teaching context? And should mistakes happen: How can they be addressed and dealt […]

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Ignorance. Creates. Racism.

Public lecture Racism is a problem. Nobody wants to be a racist and yet racism persists in our society. What unconscious contribution do we make every day to maintaining racist normality? How can we counter political racism in our society? And what role do universities play as places of knowledge production? In his public lecture, […]

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The Liberalism of Fear in Times of Democratic Distrust

Workshop with Keynote "By now it is only too well known," wrote Judith N. Shklar in her first book, After Utopia, "that democracy is not inevitable, that it may be destroyed from within, and that even the most successful constitutional democracies are not the models of social perfection that the Enlightenment had dreamed about." In […]

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On Distrust in Democracy

Keynote In the face of a widely diagnosed "crisis of democracy," calls for more trust and social cohesion are commonplace. But to what extent is democracy a matter of trust? Might distrust and skepticism also have their place in democratic politics? If so, what should these attitudes be like not to undermine and even strengthen […]

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CONFUSION NA WA (NG 2013. D: Kenneth Gyang)

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Didi Cheeka, Vinzenz Hediger Lecture: Nollywood and the Black Atlantic. On Kenneth Gyang's "Confusion Na Wa" (2013) Rather than wait for government support or European money Nigerian filmmakers in the 1990s started a film industry from scratch and on their own terms. Initially influenced by Brazilian soap operas […]

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News from the research center

Event
22.04.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

New Directions in Terrorism and Political Violence Research

Lecture Series

Lecture Series mit Vorträgen von Orla Lynch, Leena Malkki und Tore Bjørgo veranstaltet vom Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) in Kooperation mit dem Forschungszentrum „Normative Orders“ und der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

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Event
12.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus

Book Presentation

Buchvorstellung mit Christine Graebsch, Katrin Höffler, Jochen Bung & Ronen Steinke

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Event
28./29.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice

Conference

Following the research focus of the Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme, funded by Höppsche Stiftung, the "Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice" conference places a particular emphasis on themes such as the human right to health, political activism and health justice issues, and problems of structural injustice and vulnerable populations in health care. Keynote lectures by Jonathan Wolff and Kanchana Mahadevan.

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Publication
26.03.2026 | Monograph

The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective

Duve, Thomas; Herzog, Tamar (eds.): The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 (portugiesisch 2025; spanisch 2026).

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Event
14.07.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Democracy Over Time and the Climate Crisis

Lecture Series

Vortrag von Anja Karnein (Binghamton). Die Vortragsreihe untersucht Fragen der Klimakrise als Herausforderungen für demokratische Gesellschaften und konzentriert sich auf Themen wie politische Legitimität, Widerstand gegen fossile Brennstoffe und die Interessen künftiger Generationen. Sie wird organisiert von Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf und Dr. Lukas Sparenborg.

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Event
10.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Capital Investment, Inequality, and State Power in a Time of Climate Emergency

Lecture, Lecture Series

The lecture series examines questions of the climate crisis as challenges for democratic
societies and focuses on issues of political legitimacy, fossil fuel resistance, and the interests
of future generations.

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Event
13.05.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Failed States and Cloudy skies: Tipping Points, Overshoot and Permanent Emergency, after America

Lecture Series

The lecture series examines questions of the climate crisis as challenges for democratic
societies and focuses on issues of political legitimacy, fossil fuel resistance, and the interests
of future generations.

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Event
22.04.2026

Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change

Lecture, Lecture Series

Lecture by Ross Mittiga (SOAS London). The lecture series examines questions of the climate crisis as challenges for democratic societies and focuses on issues of political legitimacy, fossil fuel resistance, and the interests of future generations. It is organized by Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf and Dr. Lukas Sparenborg.

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Event
23.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Wehrhafte Demokratie: Chancen und Grenzen des Parteiverbots

Panel Discussion

Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, ob und unter welchen verfassungsrechtlichen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Voraussetzungen ein Verbot einer demokratisch gewählten, rechtsnational ausgerichteten Partei als legitimes Mittel in Betracht gezogen werden kann oder nicht. Ausgehend von den normativen Grundlagen des Parteienverbots im Grundgesetz, möchten wir die hohen rechtlichen Hürden und demokratietheoretischen Spannungsfelder dieser Maßnahme erörtern – zwischen Pluralismus und Selbstverteidigung, zwischen Meinungsfreiheit und Schutz der freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung.

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