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“Hesse Needs Committed Workers and Businesses, Strong Regions and Reliable Support Structures”
This year, the Future Dialogue hosted by the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture (IWAK) and the Hessian Ministry for Labour, Integration, Youth and Social Affairs took place at Hessentag in Fulda. Visitors looked back on 80 years of labor market development in Hesse while exploring current challenges and practical solutions for the future.
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A Resilient Democracy: The Opportunities and Limits of Banning Political Parties
How should a democracy deal with political forces that call its very foundations into question? This question will stand at the center of the 24th Frankfurter Stadtgespräch [City Talk], featuring a discussion between Prof. Dr. Roman Poseck, Hessian Minister of the Interior, and Prof. Dr. Andrea Kießling, legal scholar at Goethe University Frankfurt. The event, titled “Resilient Democracy: Opportunities and Limits of Political Party Bans,” seeks to contribute to a highly topical discussion that touches on the central principles of a liberal order. The Frankfurter Stadtgespräch series brings together academia, politics, culture, and civil society in an open dialogue on key societal challenges.
Axel Griesch
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Lecture Series: How Cells Sort Out Faulty RNA
The 2026 Rolf Sammet Foundation Guest Professorship will be awarded to structural biologist Elena Conti, Director of the Department of Cellular Structural Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry – lectures for students and researchers.
Laura Schöning
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Thinking in Avatars
Author Joshua Groß is taking over the prestigious poetry professorship at Goethe University. Starting on June 9, 2026, he will explore the literary self in our digital age under the title “Thinking in Avatars” at the Westend Campus.