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News about our Dahlem Junior Hosts
Our Dahlem Junior Hosts - Jan Lietz, Barbara Bausch, Anna Luhn, and Ansgar Riedißer - are organizing a wide variety of events in July. In addition, DJHP participant Ana Nenadovic has published a book with Cambridge University Press.
Jul 06, 2026
New CfA: Dahlem Junior Host Program 2027
With the Dahlem Junior Host Program (DJHP), the Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) supports the international networking of early career researchers in the humanities at Freie Universität Berlin. Application Deadline: November 23, 2026
Jun 26, 2026
Café Geisteswissenschaften at Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften 2026
The Café Geisteswissenschaften is featured in an campus.leben article on the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften. You can read it here .
Jun 11, 2026
CRC 1512 „Intervening Arts“ extended for a second funding period
We are pleased that the German Research Foundation granted continued funding to the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) "Intervening Arts" at Freie Universität Berlin. Spokespersons of the CRC 1215 are Professor Dr. Karin Gludovatz, art historian and director of the Dahlem Humanities Center, and Professor Dr. Matthias Warstat, professor of Theatre Studies and board member of the Dahlem Humanities Center.
May 18, 2026
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. The Prize will be presented 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