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DHC Vice Director Anita Traninger to receive Berlin Science Prize 2025
We are delighted that Professor Dr. Anita Traninger, Romance Professor with an expertise in Rhetorics, and vice director of the Dahlem Humanities Center, is to receive the 2025 Berlin Science Award. Berlin's Governing Mayor Kai Wegener will present the Prize to Anita Traninger on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at the Rote Rathaus.
May 05, 2026
Larissa Bender to take up August Wilhelm von Schlegel Visiting Professorship in the Poetics of Translation
The professorship, funded by the German Translators’ Fund, will be newly filled in the 2026–27 winter semester
Apr 27, 2026
Anne Schürmer starts as Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Professor of New Music
On June 16, music and media arts scientist Anne Schürmer will give her inaugural lecture
Apr 15, 2026
Lize Spit awarded Samuel Fischer Visiting Professorship in Literature
On April 30, Belgian author Lize Spit will give her inaugural lecture at Freie Universität Berlin
Apr 15, 2026
Establishment of the René Pollesch Visiting Professorship at Freie Universität Berlin
Sivan Ben Yishai will give her inaugural lecture as the first visiting professor on April 21, 2026
Feb 26, 2026
Out now: "The Metapolitics of Fiction: New-Right Narratives in Europe and the Americas"
Lena Seauve (Dahlem Junior Host 2023) publishes special issue in Comparative Literature Studies
Feb 17, 2026
„Die Wissenschaft hat den Aufstieg des ,Artificial State‘ seit Jahrhunderten vorhergesagt – und ebenso seinen Niedergang“
Interview with Jill Lepore on the occasion of the Hegel Lecture 2026
Feb 10, 2026
The German Research Foundation awards its prestigious Leibniz Prize 2026 to Philosopher Barbara Vetter
Dec 11, 2025
CfA: Leigh Fermor House Fellowship Programme 2026–2027
The Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) and the Centrum Modernes Griechenland (CeMoG ) of Freie Universität Berlin invite applications for the 2026–2027 academic year for two short fellowships, the first in late autumn 2026 and the second in early spring 2027, in the Leigh Fermor House in Kardamyli, Messenia Greece. New deadline: March 16, 2026
Dec 08, 2025
CfA: Research Fellowship for Humanities scholars in Ascona
Application deadline extended until November 17, 2025
Nov 03, 2025
Job Opportunity: 2 Student Assistant Positions at the Dahlem Humanities Center
DEADLINE: October 20, 2025
Oct 01, 2025
CfA: Research Fellowship for Humanities scholars in Ascona
New cooperation with the Archivio Luigi Pericle in Ascona
Aug 25, 2025