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CANCELLED! Synthetic materials as heritage? A book launch conversation – 4 November 2024 | The event is postponed
Book launch and fish bowl conversation on the occasion of ‘Rest in Plastic’ . Synthetic materials such as plastics, but

Queer Sonic Fingerprint – Transdisciplinary Research – Isabel Bredenbröker and Adam Pultz
How do bodies sound? And how can a group of cultural belongings in an ethnological museum collection resonate in unexpected

Museums targeted by populists: Open threats and gradually changes
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

About grey parrots and humans
The Animal Anatomy Theatre opens the exhibition ‘Parrot Terristories’ on 10 October, focusing on the multifaceted history of grey parrots

Object of the month: Photo collection in the archive of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Object of the month 09/2024 Whether it was the opening of the academic year, the reception of foreign delegations, sporting

Open Humboldt Freiräume – Time for dialogue and exchange
Time to implement projects with organisations from civil society organisations and thus promote the exchange of knowledge between university and

Training Program in Public Engagement for Researchers
The team of HU ‘Knowledge Exchange with Society‘ at Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (HZK) invites researchers to participate in a training

Call for Proposals: Open Humboldt Freiräume for Public Engagement
The funding program “Open Humboldt Freiräume” at HZK focuses on the need of researchers to have more time in order

Symposium “No future without memory. Strategies of preservation in cultural archives” – Nuremberg, 20-22 June 2024
Symposium in Nuremberg There are more than 350 different archives in Germany alone, containing collections on architecture, photography, dance and

The Long Night of Science 2024 – ECHOING ARCHIVES
The Long Night of Sciences will take place again on 22 June 2024. The Collegium Hungaricum is celebrating its 100th