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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?

Resonance Room as part of the exhibition YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal at the Gropius Bau
The Resonance Room shares local knowledge and experiences of mental health in Berlin.Since September 2021, a number of projects have

Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive. Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive’s Acoustic Legacies by Irene Hilden
Irene Hilden’s PhD thesis on the Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) is now available, published by Leuven University Press.The book focuses

DAOULA | sheen. West African Wild Silk on Its Way
Exhibition opening on November 17, 2022, 6 pm. Opening at the TA T in November 2022, DAOULA – SHEEN focuses

HZK-CARMAH-Kolloquium am 14. November 2022
1st HZK-CARMAH Colloquium in winter semester 22/23 14 November 2022, 2 p.m. right on time. The event will take place

Captured Voices. Sound Recordings of Prisoners of War from the Sound Archive 1915–1918 by Britta Lange
The cultural studies scholar Britta Lange researched sound recordings of male prisoners of war from the Sound Archive of the