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Teaching | 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

Image Credit: Suse Byk

Teaching | Learning Languages without Frustration

Michaela Sambanis and her colleague Christian Ludwig developed the concept of "Happy Learning"

Image Credit: Paul Scheffler

Research | "Sometimes History Reaches Out to Us in Unexpected Ways"

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

Image Credit: Anonymous Cusco School (1690–1720) / Wikimedia Commons

Measuring the Negative Impacts of Biological Invasions on Animal Welfare

Biologists develop framework to quantify and categorize the animal welfare impacts of biological invasions

Image Credit: Rainer Breitling/iNaturalist CC BY 4.0 Deed

Statement from Freie Universität Berlin’s Executive Board on Academic Partnerships with Israeli Institutions

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Researcher Introduces Energy Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to Reframe ADHD

New study presents theoretical framework to address a conceptual gap in our understanding of ADHD

Image Credit: Pexels / Tara Winstead

John F. Kennedy Institute Launches New Public Lecture Series on Democracy, Law, and Society

Inaugural Ernst Fraenkel Lecture on April 29, 2026, to address the future of birthright citizenship in the United States

Image Credit: FU / John-F.-Kennedy-Institut

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