Dr Magdalena Waligórska researches the history of the expropriation of Jews during the Holocaust in Poland and Belarus. With the platform, she is searching for everyday objects that belonged to Jews and have been preserved in private households.
Ayşe Kara, a student of philosophy and German literature at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), will be publishing her poems on the Berlin Stories blog from February to April. The first three poems are already online.
HU scientist Annett Bochmann is investigating boundary phenomena in rivers. Her project is part of the exhibition "On Water" at the Humboldt Labor, which is featured in our accompanying portrait series.
To conclude the series "Coups d'État," Argentine author Alan Pauls will be a guest at the Mosse Lectures. In his lecture on 5 February, he will talk about what it means to live through a coup.
Three young researchers present their dissertations: from physics-based GaN models to statistical tools for complex systems to scaffolding with unusual molecules.