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Dr Joana van de Löcht and Dr Niels Penke research entities from local myths and fairy tales in the Central German Uplands; Dr Balz Andrea Alter, Professor Nadja Germann and Professor Albert Gouaffo are investigating how to escape the colonial cul-de-sac using an experimental polylogue.

How did verbs such as "to go," which were originally reserved for describing specific actions, come to take on the more abstract grammatical role of signifying the future (for example, "voy a cantar"

What is on the minds of people fleeing the war in Ukraine? An interdisciplinary study by the University of Würzburg provides new perspectives.

Magical texts of the Ancient Near East, Egypt and neighbouring regions are the focus of a new research group at the University of Würzburg.

University of Münster signs agreement with university in Chernivtsi There are fundamentally more important issues which people at Ukrainian universities are currently concerned about than research, studies and exchanges.

22nd international literature festival berlin: Readings and discussions curated through the "Temporal Communities" Cluster of Excellence at Freie Universität Berlin The Cluster of Excellence "Tempora

Understanding Putin's speeches, evaluating possible consequences of the war: We talked to academics from various disciplines.

All researchers see themselves as having curiosity: looking for answers to questions which present themselves almost of their own accord - for example with regards to man-made climate change; or to qu