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Katrin Kogman-Appel, holder of a Humboldt Professorship of Jewish Studies, researches at the "Religion and Politics" Cluster of Excellence What would a scholarly network with a focus on "Religion and

No 205/2018 from Jul 27, 2018 An international conference will be held on October 11 and 12, 2018, at the German Federal Foreign Office to address the end of World War I one hundred years ago.

Invitation to Placement of Stolpersteins for the Merory Family on Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at 10 a.m. in Kreuzberg No 196/2018 from Jul 18, 2018 To commemorate the members of the Merory

Exhibition Opening "Reclam's Universal Library" on June 25 at the University Library of Freie Universität No 161/2018 from Jun 22, 2018 The University Library of Freie Universität is dedicating an ex

Heidelberg University has been awarded funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a database project to index and decipher documents from ancient Egypt.

German Research Foundation Grants Initial Funding for Three Years No 004/2018 from Jan 16, 2018 The German Research Foundation (DFG) has initially approved three-year funding for a research project at Freie Universität to study texts in Avestan, an ancient Iranian language.

A research unit to study the topic of the exclusion, discrimination and persecution of Sinti and Roma from a historical perspective took up its work at Heidelberg University.

Daniel Boyarin Wins Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Stay at Freie Universität / Public Lecture on June 12, 2017 ' 061/2017 from Mar 30, 2017 The American Jewish studies scholar and professo

Lecture and Exhibition Opening on March 20, 2017, at Confucius Institute at Freie Universität ' 057/2017 from Mar 16, 2017 On March 20, 2017, in a lecture at the Confucius Institute at Freie Universität Berlin, the sinologist Dr. h. c.