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RESEARCH

Exploring Turabdin with a Recording Device

Students and researchers traveled to the Turkish-Syrian border region to record Aramaic and Arabic dialects on the verge of extinction

Nov 06, 2026

A Storied Past, a Momentous Anniversary

The Institute for East European Studies reflects on its seventy-five years as an institution

Nov 02, 2026

Feeding Future Computers

Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin join colleagues from across four continents in a global “Quantum Software Alliance”

Jul 29, 2026

Is Russia on the Verge of an Economic Collapse?

Since the outbreak of full-scale war, many forecasts have been predicting the rapid breakdown of the Russian economy. But how realistic are they?

Jun 17, 2026

Can Berlin Stage Mega Events? If So, How Many?

The Olympics, World Expo, and a milestone birthday – an interview with history professor Jessica Gienow-Hecht

May 21, 2026

A Century Ahead of Her Time

The Division of Critical Dance Studies at the Institute for Theater Studies is celebrating twenty years of its Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship for Dance and Performance

May 08, 2026

Happy Learning

Learning languages without frustration: Michaela Sambanis knows how. A professor in the field of teaching English as a foreign language, she and her colleague Christian Ludwig developed the concept of “Happy Learning”

May 07, 2026

“Sometimes History Reaches Out to Us in Unexpected Ways”

How Italian Renaissance literature turned into a weapon against emancipation: a conversation with Nicolas Longinotti

May 07, 2026

When Ottoman-Era Bureaucratic Records Train Machines to Read

An international research team will digitize the Ottoman Turkish documents at Mount Athos. They hope to create the first tool to automatically transcribe handwritten Ottoman Turkish.

Mar 23, 2026

The God of Borders

Current headlines make border disputes and migration seem like uniquely modern issues. However, two researchers at Freie Universität Berlin show that these phenomena are much older than we might expect.

Feb 03, 2026