From lectures and discussions to concerts, exhibitions and sports events. In the Open Humboldt section, we keep you up to date on all public events and projects.
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 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.
The exhibition "On Water. WasserWissen in Berlin" is running successfully at the Humboldt Labor. Around 50 free guided tours and 25 bookable formats will be offered until the end of the year.
In the winter semester, the Mosse Lectures will shed light on the erosion of constitutional states and examine coups d'état. Legal scholar Anna-Bettina Kaiser will kick off the lecture series on 4 December on the topic of "Coup d'état, state of…
The podcast is a journey to the Republic's Clusters of Excellence and in the current episode takes us to the MATH+ Cluster of Excellence in Berlin and how mathematical methods can contribute to a more economical use of resources.
On 22 and 23 November 2025, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Hochschulsport, together with the German Chess Federation and the Berlin Chess Association, will once again be hosting the German University Chess Championships.
