New Director Appointed at the Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC)

Karin Gludovatz is the new director of the Dahlem Humanities Center / Anita Traninger will remain vice director. The position of director rotates every two years among members of the Dahlem Humanities Center's board of directors. The Professor of Art History Karin Gludovatz will succeed Professor of Theater Studies Matthias Warstat, who was director from 2019 to 2021. The fourth and final member of the board of directors is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature Beatrice Gründler. The Dahlem Humanities Center was founded in 2007 as one of five main focus areas at Freie Universität Berlin. In November 2019, the DHC became a permanent institution at Freie Universität Berlin. Its objective is to provide a common forum for research in the humanities at Freie Universität Berlin and to enhance the visibility of the humanities with a view to both academic and non-academic audiences.