In the Mosse Lecture on 22 January, Princeton professor Kim Lane Scheppele will analyse the transformation of constitutional governments from the USA to Russia.
Prof Dr Patrick Hostert and Dr Dirk Pflugmacher will contribute their expertise to the Landsat Science Team (LST) in future. The appointment by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey is considered a special scientific honour.
The founding director of the Northern Europe Institute at Humboldt-Universität, Bernd Henningsen, was honoured with the Willy Brandt Award 2025 for his commitment to German-Norwegian relations.
The Humboldt Forum welcomes all Berliners affected by the power outage, as well as all volunteers and official helpers, to its collection presentations and exhibitions from Wednesday to Sunday, 7 to 11 January 2026.
The President of the European Court of Justice, Koen Lenaerts, will speak on 30 January about "Citizenship in Motion: Striking the balance between Union and Nation". The event can be followed as a livestream on YouTube.
The Einstein Foundation Berlin is funding eleven new research projects with 13 million euros. The focus is on the new Einstein Centre for Early Disease Interception and Kerstin Kaufmann's Einstein Professorship at Humboldt-Universität.
The Presidium of the Academy has elected the HU professor as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The sociologist conducts research into the demography and social structure of societies.
The Humboldt-Universität and New York University have signed a strategic partnership agreement. The agreement provides for the deepening of mutual exchange and increased cooperation in teaching and research.
"Seen & Heard: Young People's Voices and Freedom of Expression", an EU project to strengthen freedom of expression, was nominated as a best practice project.
An HU project promotes socio-ecological education at five primary schools in Berlin and Brandenburg. The pupils analyse political and administrative structures and derive questions and recommendations for political actors.
The Senegalese philosopher Mouhamadou El Hady Ba will be our guest at the second Mosse Lecture on 18 December. In his lecture, he will deal with the recent coups in West Africa and discuss their relationship to questions of decolonisation.
