A standard assumption of research is that trust and conflict stand in opposition and exclude one another. The ConTrust Speaker Series questions that assumption and inquires into the dynamics of trust and conflict in various contexts of social life. Can trust arise in, manifest itself and be stabilized in conflicts rather than apart from them? What are the conditions for that?
Programm
Monday, 30 October 2023, 18.15 p.m.
Nigerian Digital Humor and the Cultural Politics of Public Trust
James Tunde Yeku (HU Berlin)
My talk examines to what extent digital humour mediates encounters of public conflict and trust between internet subjects and the state in Nigeria. Specifically, I reflect on how the country’s police apparatus functions as a mirror of the neurosis and antinomies of the Nigerian state itself, demonstrating how citizens reproduce and respond to the banalities of police power through strategies of what I describe as cultural netizenship, the most immediate and condensed mode of cultural and political commentary on social media. Using online humour that ‘polices’ and keeps a close guard on various official sites of corporeal violence in Nigeria, I am interested in how Nigerian cultural netizens respond to the institution of the police and its notoriously extrajudiciality which, itself, produces the conditions for mistrust (James Tunde Yeku).
Building „Normative Ordnungen, Max Horkheimer Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt and online via Zoom. Please register in advance: office@normativeorders.net
Monday, 15 January 2024, 18.15 p.m.
Civil Disobedience and its Limits
Tatjana Hörnle (Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Kriminalität, Sicherheit und Recht, Freiburg i. Br.)
Building „Normative Ordnungen, Max Horkheimer Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt and online via Zoom. Please register in advance: office@normativeorders.net
Monday, 29 January 2024, 18.15 p.m.
Can Trust Be Engineered? Biometric infrastructures and the African Financial Revolution
Keith Breckenridge (University of the Witwatersrand)
Building „Normative Ordnungen, Max Horkheimer Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt and online via Zoom. Please register in advance: office@normativeorders.net
Previous Lectures:
Monday, 5 June 2023, 6.15 p.m.
Vertrauen und Konflikt in der europäischen Gesellschaft
Prof. Dr. Armin von Bogdandy (MPI für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Goethe-Universität, ConTrust)
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität, ConTrust)
Building „Normative Ordnungen, Max Horkheimer Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt and online via Zoom. Please register in advance: office@normativeorders.net
Monday, 26 June 2023, 6.15 p.m.
Trust and Institutions
Reinhard Bachmann (University of London)
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, ConTrust)
Building „Normative Ordnungen, Max Horkheimer Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt and online via Zoom. Please register in advance: office@normativeorders.net
Monday, 3 July 2023, 6.15 p.m.
Transnationale Klimaproteste, Polarisierung und demokratische Konfliktübersetzung
Nicole Doerr (University of Copenhagen, Fellow ConTrust)
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, ConTrust, PRIF)
Building „Normative Ordnungen, Max Horkheimer Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt and online via Zoom. Please register in advance office@normativeorders.net
Wednesday, 12 July 2023, 6.15 p.m.
Mythopolitics and Melodrama in the Forging of Populist Power in Contemporary India
Ravi Vasudevan (CSDS in Delhi, Fellow ConTrust)
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität, ConTrust) und Dr. Pavan Malreddy (Goethe-Universität, ConTrust)
Building „Normative Ordnungen, Max Horkheimer Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt and online via Zoom. Please register in advance office@normativeorders.net
Presented by:
„ConTrust. Vertrauen im Konflikt. Politisches Zusammenleben unter Bedingungen der Ungewissheit“ – ein Clusterprojekt des Landes Hessen am Forschungsverbund “Normative Ordnungen” der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main