Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders

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The Cluster of Excellence 243 The Formation of Normative Orders (Engl. "The Formation of Normative Orders"), short Normative Orders , is a research network that by the end of 2007-2019 as part of the Excellence Initiative was funded by the Federal and state governments.

Organization and research focus

Cluster of Excellence at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , the following partner institutions participate: Frobenius Institute (Frankfurt), Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main), Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt am Main), Max -Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt am Main), Point Sud, Center for Research on Local Knowledge (Bamako, Mali) and Technical University of Darmstadt .

The humanities and social scientists gathered in the Cluster of Excellence make it their task to analyze the current social debates - for example about a just order of society in times of "globalization". The focus is primarily on the normative ideas that play a role in such processes and conflicts.

Researchers from the fields of philosophy, history, political science, law, ethnology, sociology, religious studies and economics participate in the Cluster of Excellence. The research is organized in three interlinked research fields that deal with the conceptual foundations (in particular the terms of normativity and the justification narrative) as well as the dynamics and plurality of normative orders.

speaker

The cluster's speakers were Klaus Günther (Professorship for Legal Theory, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law) and Rainer Forst (Professorship for Political Theory and Philosophy).

Events

The cluster organized a large number of scientific events. These included the annual conferences, the lecture series and the Frankfurt Lectures as well as the junior conferences .

In addition, the cluster addressed the interested public with a number of series of events, especially the Frankfurt city talk. This is carried out at various locations in Frankfurt am Main outside the university, especially in cooperation with the Frankfurter Kunstverein . Guests (in chronological order): Tom Koenigs , Feridun Zaimoglu , Juliane Rebentisch, Thea Dorn , Erhard Eppler , Hans Christoph Binswanger and Toni Föllmi, Sebastian Schipper , Joachim Gauck , Carl Hegemann , Markus Beckedahl , Hoda Salah, Tanja Gönner , Christopher Clark , Ute Frevert , Stephan Steinlein , Armin von Bogdandy , Rita Süssmuth , Stefan Sagmeister and Mouhanad Khorchide .

The cluster has participated in the Römerberg Talks since 2018 .

Further development

After the application to the DFG to continue the cluster was not accepted at the end of September 2017, numerous social scientists and humanities scholars expressed their support for the cluster, especially in an open letter published in November 2017. The state of Hesse then promised to ensure the continuation of the project. Since then, the cluster has been discussing how to develop further in terms of organization and content. In December 2017, Die Zeit summed up the outcome of the failed funding process in a detailed report on the application for additional services with the words that the University of Frankfurt “did everything right and still failed.” The refusal of further funding had doubts about the Excellence Initiative as A funding model for science nourished: this has proven to be "completely wrong and right at the same time".

Publications

A report on the first funding period of the cluster from 2007 to 2012 was presented in May 2012.

The Frankfurt Lectures are published by Suhrkamp .

The cluster also publishes a series of working papers.

The Normative Orders cluster series is published by Campus Verlag .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Research Foundation: Decisions in the second program phase of the Excellence Initiative. Joint press release by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Science Council (WR). Press release No. 26 June 15, 2012, accessed March 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Anna-Lena Scholz: Goethe University Frankfurt: Excellent failure . In: The time . No. 53 , December 20, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 , p. 75–76 ( zeit.de [accessed December 25, 2017]).
  3. ↑ "A bitter disappointment". November 10, 2017, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Normative Orders: Partner. Retrieved March 3, 2018 .
  5. ^ Frankfurt Lectures . Website of the event series. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  6. ↑ Young Talent Conferences . Website of the event series. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  7. ^ Frankfurt talk of the town . Website of the event series. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
  8. ↑ Intervention: Römerberg Talks "1968 - 2018": What is left? Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders, accessed on September 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ludger Fittkau: Hesse's science policy: disappointment with Goethe University in the excellence competition . In: Deutschlandfunk (ed.): Campus and career . October 25, 2017 ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed December 25, 2017]).
  10. ^ Yale Department of Political Science: Letter of Concern and Support Regarding the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders” of the University of Frankfurt . November 14, 2017. Accessed December 25, 2017.
  11. ↑ Cluster of Excellence The Formation of Normative Orders (Ed.): The first funding period 2007–2012 . Frankfurt am Main. May 2012.
  12. ^ Normative Orders Working Paper Series. on: normativeorders.net . Retrieved January 2, 2013.