News & Events

InHerit: Call for fellows now open!
The new Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study inHerit. Heritage in Transformation, based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, invites applications

Object of the month: An Indian Tablā (dāyāṃ) in the Berlin Lautarchiv
Object of the Month 04/2023 In addition to its core holdings of audio recordings of prisoners of war from the

Object of the month: Historical drawing of a new horse stable building
Object of the Month 03/2023 House 9 on the North Campus once served as the equine clinic of the former Prussian

unBinding Bodies. Lotus Shoes and Corset
Exhibition March 24 – August 31, 2023 Opening March 23, 6 – 10 p.m. Tieranatomisches Theater Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Campus

WARP – Werkstatt für kulturelle Ausdrucksweisen und Recherche in der Praxis
WARP – Werkstatt für kulturelle Ausdrucksweisen und Recherche in der Praxis – addresses the relations and linkages of knowledge in

BMBF to fund a new Käte Hamburger Kolleg at the HU from 2024 onwards
“InHerit” – Heritage in Transformation What shapes society? What constitutes identity or difference? How can we define belonging, ownership or

New volume in the series „Bildwelten des Wissens“
Bildwelten des Wissens – volume 18. Museale Reste. Edited by Nina Samuel and Felix Sattler. Remnants are a challenge for the museum as an

Object of the Month: Lise Meitner Monument by Anna Franziska Schwarzbach
Object of the Month 01/2023 Since 2014, Lise Meitner faces Unter den Linden; on the other side of the cour

HZK-CARMAH Colloquium – The Phyletic Museum
What time: 06 February 2023, 2 p.m. right on time. Where: The event will take place at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für

Margareta von Oswald: Working Through Colonial Collections. An Ethnography of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collectionsWhat are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums?