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20.11.2014
Conference

Normative orders in transition: global challenges

Seventh Annual International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”

Program

Thursday, November 20, 2014

14.30 to 14.45

Opening of the 2014 Annual Conference “Normative Orders in Transition: Global Challenges”
Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst and Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther (Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

14.45 to 16.45

Panel I: The juridification of the world and its critics

Chair: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kadelbach (Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)

Prof. Michelle Everson (Birkbeck University of London):
Crisis past and crisis yet to come: the fault of (European) law

Dr. Matthias Goldmann (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg):
Couper la tête du roi? The juridification of informal public authority as a challenge for jurisprudence

Prof. Dr. Jens Steffek (Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Technical University of Darmstadt):
Arbitrariness, contingency and international law

16.45 to 17.15, foyer on the first floor, café and cake

17.15-19.15

Panel II: Multinormativity – constellation analyses

Chair: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve (Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)

Prof. Dr. Marie-Claire Foblets (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology):
A plea for Accommodation of Diversity within the State Legal Framework

Prof. Dr. Miloš Vec (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, University of Vienna):
Normcore: Social Rules and the Law of Fashion

Dr. Stefan Kroll (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main):
The destabilization of expectations through the denial of justice

Friday, November 21, 2014

10-12 o’clock

Panel III: Challenges of normativity on the Internet

Chair: Dr. Thorsten Thiel (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)

Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main):
The protection of the Internet in the common interest: Implications for states and non-state actors

Prof. Dr. Alexander Peukert (Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main):
Privatization and automation of law enforcement on the Internet

Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin):
Multi-stakeholder semantics in Internet governance: Actor formation and space of opportunity

12.00 to 13.00, room 501 and lounge, light lunch

13.00 to 15.00

Panel IV: (Post)Secularism – Theoretical and Empirical Findings on a Contested Category

Chair: Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter (Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main):

Dr. Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard University):
Bridging the Gap Between Political Theory and Political Reality: Revisiting the Dominant Concepts of Secularism

Prof. Dr Hartmut Zinser (Freie Universität Berlin):
Secularization – the Return of Religions – Postsecularism. Remarks on the Conceptual Landscape

Dr. Dominik Müller (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main):
Anti-Secular Modernity and the Rise of Pop-Islamism in Southeast Asia

3 p.m. End of the Annual Conference 2014

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