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Lecture series “Family Matters”: Further Dates during Winter Semester
Focus Family Secrets The focus Family Secrets turns its attention to hidden dimensions of family relationships, where intimacy, protection, and conflict
Object of the Month: Walter Womacka, Conquering science
Object of the Month 01/2026 For now, the large-scale work can only be seen in the evening hours – the
Theme days on family secrets – Hide or tell?
Saturday 24 January – Sunday 25 January 2026 as part of the exhibition “Beziehungsweise Familie” (Family Matters) Silence and whispering,
Lecture series “Beziehungsweise Familie” (Family Matters) – January 21, 2026 with Prof. Dr. Carola Lentz
Genealogies, Family Secrets, and a Curious Ethnologist in West Africa Prof. Dr. Carola Lentz (Johannes Gutenburg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Ethnologie
Supporting Exchange Between Science and Society: Insights into a Public Engagement Internship
Interview with Jayun Choi, Brown University Jayun Choi spent her fall semester 2025 at Humboldt-Universität completing an internship at the
Two new secondary members at the Zentrum für Kulturtechnik
We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Marcel Robischon and Dr. Friederike Landau-Donnelly as new associate members at the Zentrum
Object of the Month: The Rectors’ Portraits – Tradition Formation in the GDR, Media Diversity in the Present Day
Object of the Month 12/2025 Many venerable universities have a picture gallery of professors or rectors. Berlin’s Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität and Humboldt-Universität
Viktoria Tkaczyk is honoured with the Caroline von Humboldt-Professur
Prof. Dr. Viktoria Tkaczyk, science and media historian in the Department of Media Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and
Teaching and Learning with Society: Call for Proposals Summer Term 2026
The call for applications for ‘Teaching and Learning with Society’ for the summer semester 2026 is now open. If you
New publication: Unearthing Collections: Archives, Time and Ethics
Unearthing Collections is a new volume co-edited by Magdalena Buchczyk (IfEE), Martín Fonck, Tomás Usón, and Tina Palaić, and published