An HRUG-Open Talk had been looking at the developments of polities, politics and policies of the recent years, seemingly culminating in the election of Trump and the failure of the traffic light coalition in Germany. Peter Herrmann addressed the dark side of bourgeois enlightenment behind these developments, followed by a debate. See as well the … Read more
The 2024 China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights was held on 22 October in Berlin. Here are two video clips of presentations.
– many noticed it, though they overlooked that the tremor existed already for a long time and too many got used to the underlying tectonic cracks or fractures in soci(et)al structures.Both, the election of the Trump as 47th POTUS, also known as President of the United States of America) and the collapse of the traffic light … Read more
On August 30, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “In the Contemporary Context: The Essence of the Concept of Human Rights” was successfully held. This seminar was chaired by Professor Peter Herrmann (a researcher of CSU Human Rights Center). Mehmet Okyayuz (a professor of political science at Middle East Technical University, Turkey), and three teaching … Read more
Going there … some of the participants presenting themselves Mehmet Naima Peter
One can get easily the impression that human rights are in many cases on the top of the agenda of political and cultural debates, and apparently everybody knows exactly what the topic is about. However, much of the debate is a matter of naming and shaming, countries and regions standing against each other without considering … Read more
Obviously, democracy is a somewhat open concept, i.e. there are different concepts of what democracy actually is and how it works. One – and probably the dominant in the Western sphere – is that it is a representative polity, the demos, according to the Marriam Webster dictionary, understood as “common people”. In other words, the … Read more
On January 30, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “Interaction between Law and Politics in a Global Perspective: Law First or Politics First” was successfully held. The seminar was chaired by Professor Peter Herrmann, a researcher of Central South University Human Rights Center. Evgeniia Kiseleva (a researcher of the School of Economics at the Russian … Read more
Should there be a question mark or an exclamation mark. In the e-newsletter of the German ZeitOnline, published on the 6th of September 2024, we read – here translated: Joe Biden disappeared on a beach holiday for a fortnight without anyone really noticing his absence. Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and their respective partners are travelling the … Read more
On July 26, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “Care and Respect: Research on Disease Management for People Living with HIV or AIDS in China” was successfully held. The seminar was chaired by Joe Finnerty, a policy analyst of the School of Applied Social Studies of University College Cork in Ireland, and reported by Xiao … Read more