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The new book offers fresh insights into the little-known collection of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Museum of European Cultures, MEK) in Berlin. Buchczyk's monograph Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing…

Object of the Month 05/2023 Plant descriptionGoethea, native to Brazil, belongs to the mallow family (Malvaceae). It forms a weakly branched shrub that can grow to about 2 m high. The more than 20 cm long stalked undivided leaves sit singly on…

Viktoria Tkaczyk is Professor of Media and Knowledge in the Department of Media Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Thinking with Sound undertakes a historicisation of auditory neuroscience, an interdisciplinary field of research that is…

Tieranatomisches Theater Opening May 5, 6 p.m. Exhibition duration: May, 6 – 27, 2023 The virtual reality animation can be experienced via VR headsets every Tuesday to Saturday between 4 – 6 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition. Is there a natural…

The new Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study inHerit. Heritage in Transformation, based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, invites applications from both experienced and early career post-doc researchers for fellowships to begin in 2024. The…

Object of the Month 04/2023  In addition to its core holdings of audio recordings of prisoners of war from the First World War and the collection of German dialects from the 1920s and 1930s, the Lautarchiv (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) also…

Prof. Dr. Jan Plefka from the Department of Physics and IRIS Adlershof iProf Dr Strausz from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at HU will receive funding totalling four million euros.

The HU sociologist researches and communicates about social inequality and injustice, the structural change of the middle class and new border regimes.