Book launch and fish bowl conversation on the occasion of ‘Rest in Plastic’ .
Synthetic materials such as plastics, but also concrete and even aluminum, are often not considered to be valuable and as such usually excluded from thinking about…
How do bodies sound? And how can a group of cultural belongings in an ethnological museum collection resonate in unexpected queer kin relations? In their interactive multichannel sound installation Queer Sonic Fingerprint, sound artist Adam Pultz and…
The international project ‘CHAPTER’ has been investigating since 2020 how right-wing populist forces are influencing museums in Poland, the UK and Germany.
When the political scientist Julia Leser and her team surveyed museum and cultural…
The Animal Anatomy Theatre opens the exhibition ‘Parrot Terristories’ on 10 October, focusing on the multifaceted history of grey parrots and humans
African grey parrots are social animals that live in the tropical rainforests of West and Central…
Object of the month 09/2024
Whether it was the opening of the academic year, the reception of foreign delegations, sporting competitions, conferences or conventions – a university photographer was always present at all university events, documenting…
Time to implement projects with organisations from civil society organisations and thus promote the exchange of knowledge between university and society – this is what the Open Humboldt Freiräume funding line stands for. It literally creates ‘free…
Nina Hanning receives 1.5 million euros in funding for the project "Free-View - Neuro-cognitive processes underlying gaze control and perception across free-viewing eye movements".
The funding program "Open Humboldt Freiräume" at HZK focuses on the need of researchers to have more time in order to engage in a dialogue with society and to develop projects for knowledge exchange between science and society.
The selected…
