Is Debate at a Dead End?

The analytical core of this 3-day focus will examine the difficulties specific to individual topics and the public debate associated with them. After a keynote speech by Deborah Schnabel, the public is invited to take part personally in one of four discussions:

Sociologist Klaus Holz (head of the research project “Christian Signatures of Contemporary Anti-Semitism”) will study debates about Israel and anti-Semitism. Social scientist Yasemin El-Menouar (and expert in “Religion, Values and Society” with the Bertelsmann Stiftung e. V.) will be available to discuss debates about Islam and migration. Eva Berendsen (political scientist and commentator) will talk about the debate surrounding gender and feminism. And political scientist Vincent August (head of the research group “Ecological Conflicts” at the Humboldt University in Berlin) discusses the issue of what current debates about climate and (climate) justice are suffering from.