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Volkswagen Foundation Grants 10 Million Euros for Outstanding Junior Researchers ' 280/2016 from Aug 16, 2016 The historian Dr. Timothy Nunan is receiving 660,000 euros as a Freigeist Fellowsh

How did the concept of a "musical past" develop between the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age? This question is the focus of a European research team that includes music scholars from Heidelberg University.

Professor of Culture of the Talmud at UC Berkeley Will Address the Topic of Diaspora on June 22 at 6 p.m. as Part of the Lecture Series on Migration No 202/2016 from Jun 10, 2016 Daniel

Third Annual Lecture Series at Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS) to Start April 26 - Organized and Moderated by Arabic Studies Scholar Beatrice Gründler The Long Ninth Cen

High-ranking representatives of Christianity and Islam used a conference on religion at the University of Münster to issue a strongly worded appeal for peace, directed at countries and religious communities all over the world.

Prof. Leo O'Donovan, priest and former rector of Georgetown University in Washington DC, about the time he spent as a student in Münster and about Pope Francis It was at the invitation of the C

Historian Diner Recognized for Studies on the Epistemic Significance of Jewish Life Worlds for Understanding Modernity The historian Dan Diner is being granted an honorary doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin.

At first, it was only meant to be a small contribution to an initiative started by Pope Francis to conduct a survey entitled "Ask the Faithful!" But then the reaction to the questionnaire (www.

International Workshop on Jewish Intellectual History at Freie Universität June 2 to 4, 2015 A workshop at Freie Universität Berlin from June 2 to June 4, 2015, will examine new approaches in the scholarly study of Jewish intellectual history.