https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/thema/interview-en/ Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität | Neues aus Forschung, Lehre, Studium Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:04:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-fav_guo-blau-32x32.jpg https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/thema/interview-en/ 32 32 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/looking-beyond-gdp/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:01:59 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=88125 Alfons Weichenrieder, Professor of Public Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt, argues in a recent study that Net Domestic Product (NDP) offers a more realistic picture of how incomes are actually […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/what-do-governance-standards-mean-for-democracy/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:53:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87991 The German Research Foundation’s (DFG) Research Training Group “Standards of Governance” is an interdisciplinary research initiative run jointly by TU Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt. At the midterm conference held […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/a-fundamental-imbalance/ Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:20:54 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85277 Ladislaus Ludescher on the decline in funding for development work and for combating hunger at a time when military budgets are growing UniReport: Dr. Ludescher, the fact that armaments spending […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/the-european-roots-of-hebrew-literature/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:03:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85219 Questions for Dr. Judith Müller, Research Associate at the Buber-Rosenzweig Institute and co-organizer of the conference “European Hebrew Text Cultures: Deciphering Entanglements through Close and Distant Readings,” which took place […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/civic-education-is-highly-relevant-for-a-functioning-and-vibrant-democracy/ Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:44:40 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85215 Political scientist Prof. Monika Oberle participated in the joint “Pilot Monitor for Civic Education” project. Speaking to UniReport, she explains the study’s key findings. UniReport: Professor Oberle, the term civic […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/theres-still-a-lot-to-be-done-for-cycling-in-frankfurt/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:25:46 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85211 The “ADFC Bicycle Climate Test,” in which over 200,000 cyclists participated nationwide, rated Frankfurt as Germany’s most bicycle-friendly city among cities with over 500,000 inhabitants. We asked Prof. Martin Lanzendorf, […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/there-are-no-static-conditions-in-economic-change/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:19:04 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85209 In his new book “Gefährliche Rivalitäten” [Dangerous Rivalries], historian Werner Plumpe shows how history has always been shaped by economic competition. UniReport: To ask a somewhat cheeky question – do […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/we-need-a-forward-looking-review/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:01:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85162 Andrea Kießling, Professor of Public Law, Social and Health Law, as well as Migration Law at Goethe University Frankfurt, reflects on the COVID-19 era from a legal perspective. UniReport: It’s […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/the-visa-restrictions-did-feel-a-bit-like-a-declaration-of-war/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:21:37 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85102 Impressions from 2025 Annual Conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educators In late May, Dr. Johannes Müller, Head of the Global Office (GO), and Cathrin Rieger, Head of International Partnerships […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/rethinking-ovids-metamorphoses-under-covid-conditions/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:26:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84720 Bernd Herzogenrath, professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, virtually brought together 133 artists from the fields of film, sound, text, and photography for his project “©ovid’s Metamorphoses.” […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/transfer-can-only-succeed-through-dialogue/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:10:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84698 Findings from the Meta-Project on Inclusive Education The “Needs-Based Diagnostics in Inclusive Education” funding directive, issued by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), funded 28 research projects […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/poetics-lectures-are-a-hellish-genre/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 06:02:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84606 Judith Schalansky assumes the Frankfurt Chair of Poetics in the 2025 summer semester. In conversation with UniReport, she discusses collecting as a mode of world appropriation, the loss of things […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/having-access-to-the-citylab-is-like-winning-the-lottery/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:01:47 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84595 For the first time, the Historical Museum Frankfurt is collaborating with Goethe University researchers in its Stadtlabor. The result is a participatory and informative exhibition titled “Everyday housing issues. On […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/even-an-old-cluster-faces-entirely-new-challenges/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:27:48 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84418 CPI spokesperson Prof. Stefanie Dimmeler on nearly 20 years in a continuously successful Cluster of Excellence and on new, exciting research questions in cardiovascular science UniReport: Congratulations, Professor Dimmeler. How […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/we-really-were-the-underdogs/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:21:50 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84432 Prof. Michaela Müller-McNicoll and Prof. Martin Beck, spokespersons for SCALE, on the Clusters of Excellence decision day, new ideas and what lies ahead UniReport: Congratulations, Professor Müller-McNicoll and Professor Beck. […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/new-head-of-the-humanities-library/ Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:12:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84299 Agnes Brauer to also lead the Digital Humanities Team UniReport: Ms. Brauer, you are the new head of the Bibliothekszentrum Geisteswissenschaften (BzG) – Goethe University’s Humanities Library – and simultaneously […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/emotional-iconoclasm/ Wed, 28 May 2025 13:42:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84190 Nimrod Hurvitz is a visiting researcher at Goethe University’s Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften – Institute of Advanced Studies, focusing on the topic of “Targeting Archaeology: Emotions and Agendas Behind IS’s Heritage Destruction”. […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/five-years-after-covid-19-experiences-lessons-learned-and-future-challenges/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:59:23 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=83705 Together, they oversaw the implementation of the COVID-19 regulations at Goethe University Frankfurt during the pandemic: René Hummerich and Heike Körber, from the Departments of Occupational Safety and Biological Safety […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/globally-connected-locally-rooted-quark-matter-in-frankfurt/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:26:25 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=83494 For the first time, the world’s leading conference on heavy-ion physics, Quark Matter, was held at Goethe University from April 6 to 12, 2025. In this interview, Professor Harald Appelshäuser […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/learning-physics-is-difficult-you-constantly-have-to-re-learn-things/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:16:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=83043 Thomas Wilhelm, who has won several awards for his approach to teaching physics, explains why physics lessons sometimes aren’t very successful, and how we can improve them – using computer […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/experimental-psychology-in-challenging-times-a-conversation-on-the-sidelines-of-teap-2025/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:50:21 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82942 The TeaP (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen – Conference of Experimental Psychologists) is an important venue for early-career researchers in experimental psychology. This year’s conference drew some 800 participants, who gathered […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/the-election-result-isnt-going-to-make-people-very-happy/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:16 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82621 Political scientist Brigitte Geissel on the imminent election, voter fatigue and the need to involve citizens more effectively in democratic processes. UniReport: Prof. Geissel, this Sunday Germans will elect a […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/elves-are-an-invasive-species-in-germany/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:01:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82368 A new book by Nordic scholar Matthias Egeler looks at the otherworld. The wicked fairy in fairy tales, the elves in Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”, Princess Lillifee and her […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/teen-slang-aura-goofy-cringe-and-more/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:08:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82242 Petra Schulz, professor of linguistics, looks at Germany’s latest “teen slang word of the year” announced at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair through a linguistic lens. UniReport: Prof. Schulz, have […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/overcoming-racial-inequality-in-a-polarized-society/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:29:05 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80743 At the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften (FKH), Paul Lichterman, Professor of Sociology and Religion at the University of Southern California, is conducting research into white anti-racism. The Humboldt Foundation is funding his […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/the-germans-continuity-was-one-of-silence/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 07:24:57 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80708 Prof. Doron Kiesel, educational scientist and founding director of the Jewish Academy (Jüdische Akademie), talks about the lecture series entitled “Diversity and discourse/antisemitism. Culture of remembrance. Democracy./How (a-)political is the […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/discussions-should-be-dialogs-where-every-participant-can-speak-in-a-secure-setting/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:30:48 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80539 Students put their questions about the war in the Middle East to Israeli Consul General Talya Lador-Fresher. Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel and the country’s military action are topics that […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/generative-ai-a-working-group-researches-the-consequences/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 07:33:35 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80525 The Generative AI working group examines how AI is affecting Goethe University Frankfurt. We spoke to Julia Schmitt and working group leader Dr. David Weiß – both of whom are part […]]]>