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Why is the liberal social model coming under increasing pressure? How do crises alter political conflicts, social cohesion, and our trust in institutions? Sociologist Prof. Steffen Mau – Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity – addresses these questions in this year’s Kantorowicz Lecture at Goethe University Frankfurt, titled "Crisis-Driven Change in the Present" ("Krisenhafter Wandel der Gegenwart").

This public event will take place on July 8 as part of the "Wednesday Conferences" series organized by the Research Center for Historical Humanities (FZHG). It will be held in Room 411 of the IG Farben Building (Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt) in cooperation with LOEWE-DynaRel and the Research Center "Normative Orders".

About the speaker: Steffen Mau is Professor of Macrosociology at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin and Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. His recent publications include the book "Ungleich vereint: Warum der Osten anders bleibt" (Suhrkamp, 2024) and – co-authored with Ricarda Lang – "Der große Umbruch: Ein Gespräch über Krisen, Konflikte und Kompromisse" (Ullstein Verlag, 2025).

The "Kantorowicz Lectures" series focuses on the theme of "political language". Each year, an internationally renowned expert is invited to deliver the lecture. The lectures in this series are published by the prestigious Wallstein Verlag under the "Historical Humanities" ("Historische Geisteswissenschaften") imprint. Since 2013, the Kantorowicz Lecture has been held in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders". Further information on this new lecture series and other FZHG events can be found on the research center’s website: https://fzhg.org/

Contact:

Dr. Nathan Taylor, Research Center for Historical Humanities, n.taylor@em.uni-frankfurt.de, Tel: +49 (0)69 798 32113