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Is it a certain interpretation of liberalism that has caused these crises? Is the current world order really liberal? Should liberalism serve as a source to solve these crises or is it time to find alternatives? A student initiative from Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Tübingen supported by the Cluster of Excellence "The formation of normative orders", the association of the friends and benefactors of the Goethe University and the Heinrich Böll Foundation Hessen invites you to this Young Researcher's Conference from 3rd-6th February 2011.
About thirty young researchers from Germany and abroad are going to question whether liberalism is a major cause of numerous crises of global governance. In addition to the crisis of the financial markets we exemplarily point to the crisis of climate change, the protests against the results and processes of international summits or the anger at the western-liberal world order which is perceived as impirial by many non-western citizens.
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The third lecture series of the Cluster of Excellence is entitled ‘The Nature of Normativity’ and is scheduled for the Winter Semester 2010/2011. Researchers and students, as well as interested members of the public, are cordially invited to attend the six lectures comprising the series.
Norms and normativity represent the fundamental points of reference and concepts of the Frankfurt Cluster of Excellence. The philosophers participating in this lecture series, which is central to the themes of the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’, are among the most renowned researchers worldwide. They will address the essence of normativity from a variety of perspectives.
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2nd International Graduate Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, 3-5 December 2010, Frankfurt, Germany
This year’s graduate conference will feature discussions about the dynamic interrelations between norms and conflicts as well as their manifold forms of expression. To this end, the PhD students and Post-docs have composed 24 interdisciplinary and thematically varied panels. With over 70 graduates from over 35 universities in nine countries, they will engage the question of how the transition of social orders invoke conflicts and how the norms negotiated therein influence the scale and course of those conflicts.
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The third International Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence, to be held on 18-20 November, will address the question of how peace and justice can be reconciled
On an everyday understanding, peace generally means the absence of disturbances or war. Justice is associated with fairness and reason. Ethical and moral discourses often employ the two concepts in the same breath, as though an internal relation exists, or had to exist, between them. Yet is this in fact the case? The relation between freedom and justice is the topic of the third International Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’ at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Princeton professor Jonathan Israel will speak on November 8 and 9 on the relation between philosophy and revolution in the late eighteenth century as part of the Cluster of Excellence’s Frankfurt Lecture series
The ‘torch of philosophy’ has finally been borne into society: this was the tenor of the judgement shared by many philosophers at the time of the French Revolution. Yet how should we judge the optimism of that era from where we stand today? The relation between philosophy and revolution in the late eighteenth century will be the topic of the next series of Frankfurt Lectures presented by the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’.
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Vom Glück und 
von Gärten.
Normative Grundlagen einer modernen Ordnungstheorie und -politik
Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2010, 18.00-19.30
Goethe-Universität, Campus Westend
Raum 1.202, RuW-Gebäude
Forum
„Die Herausbildung transnationaler normativer Ordnungen“
Do 14.10. 18 bis 20 Uhr, Campus Westend, HZ 3
Vorträge von Prof. Laurent Thévenot (Paris), Prof. Klaus Günther und Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst
Das Forum dient einerseits dazu, die Forschungsfragen des Clusters darzustellen, zum anderen dient es dazu, mit Prof. Thévenot seine soziologische Theorie der Rechtfertigung zu diskutieren.
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Within the framework of the ‘Frankfurt Citizens’ University’, the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’, in cooperation with the Frankfurt Citizens’ University and the Frankfurter Rundschau, presents a wide-ranging series of lectures and discussions on the topic of justice.
It seems as though justice has won the contest over which good should count as the supreme social good. We encounter justice in the most diverse domains as an ideal to which different, and often conflicting, social actors appeal. For example, all participants in the discussion over the reform of the welfare state without exception justify their conflicting positions – whether in support of reform, retrenchment or expansion – by appeal to precepts of justice. Most of our judgements about what is just are intuitive, for example when we say that in society – whether in the education system or the labour market – equality of opportunity should prevail or that performance should be rewarded. At the same time, the theory of justice shows us how diverse the corresponding justifications and orientations can be.
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Professor Amartya Sen (Harvard University), Nobel Prize Winner in Economics in 1998, will give a Lecture on "Justice and the Global World" at the Goethe-University Frankfurt on Thursday, October 7th, 2010. The event will be jointly hosted by the Cluster of Excellence "Normative Orders" and by the Centre for Advanced Studies "Justitia Amplificata: Rethinking Justice - Applied and Global."
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Clémentine Deliss and Juliane Rebentisch discuss the role of art in politics and society. The third Frankfurter Stadtgespräch, a joint event of the Cluster of Excellence and the Frankfurter Kunstverein, will take place on September 16 in Frankfurt.
What influence does art exert on the normative orders of a society, on public space and on processes of globalisation? And how is art influenced in turn by these phenomena? The relation between art and politics has always been a matter of controversy. Underlying it is the very basic question of whether art is intrinsically political or whether it must reject politics for art's sake. But what could constitute the political essence of art?
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International Panel Discussion on the Question: What is Poverty?
Poverty should be cut in half worldwide by the year 2015. This was one of the ambitious ‘Millennium Development Goals’ on which the international community agreed at the beginning of the new century. But what exactly is poverty and how should it be combated? In recent years a series of different policies concerning poverty reduction have been mooted in public and academic discourse. They propose competing answers to questions concerning the core of the concept of poverty, the current scope of poverty and how and by whom poverty can be adequately described.
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An international conference on human rights entitled ‘Human Rights Today: Foundations and Politics’ will be held on June 17 and 18, 2010.
As a crucial ‘normative order’ of modernity, human rights are among the principal concerns of the Cluster of Excellence. Since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and as a reaction to the ‘barbarous acts’ committed by the totalitarian dictatorships, human richts have evolved into the justification narrative of political orders par excellence. At the same time, controversy rages not just over the substantive definition of human rights, but also over how they should be justified: How are they related to ‘strong’ – for instance, religious – convictions? How can human rights, as a shared normative orientation, be reconciled with cultural difference? How can the autonomy of the political be connected with the idea of human rights?
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In the second Frankfurt Encounter, Feridun Zaimoglu and Rainer Forst will discuss ways of dealing with cultural and religious difference
Among the chief characteristics of modern societies is the increasing diversity of cultural and religious viewpoints. Yet at times it is as though we were back in the bleak times of religious conflicts – whether it be discussions over plans to build mosques, the Regensburg Address of the Pope, caricatures in Danish newspapers, or schoolteachers wearing headscarves.
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Frank I. Michelman on the justification of democratic political systems
Following the well-received public lectures by the New York political scientist Nancy Fraser, it gives us great pleasure to welcome another prominent American scholar to the Frankfurt Lectures of the Cluster of Excellence. Frank I. Michelman, Professor of Law at Harvard University, will speak on May 17 and 18 on the topic ‘Contract and Common Ground: The Case of Liberty’.
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International conference at the Goethe University Frankfurt, May 7-9, 2010
What form should normative foundations for peaceful coexistence in a multicultural and multi-religious society take? This question is the primary focus of the international conference ‘Formation of Normative Orders in the Islamic World’ which is being organised by the Cluster of Excellence at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Organisational responsibility for the conference is being assumed by Prof. Susanne Schröter, holder of the Chair in Anthropology of colonial and postcolonial orders and Director of the Cluster’s Junior Research Group ‘Contemporary discourses on state and society in the Islamic world’.
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