The Una Europa Winter School for doctoral students “Rethinking Cultural Heritage Collections”  will take place at Freie Universität Berlin from February 22 to 26, 2027. Join us to explore how heritage collections serve as sites of knowledge and memory through seminars, field trips, and collaborative workshops. Together we will examine colonial legacies and wartime displacements associated with existing collections, while also exploring the digital technologies used to catalogue these collections and create new ones. A key question will be the role replicas play in these processes. Participants include the FU’s Collection of Casts of Ancient Sculptures, the State Library’s Manuscript Collection, the #Last Seen research project, and digital projects from the FU’s  Ancient Studies.

 

For more information and the application form: https://www.una-europa.eu/calendar/una-europa-winter-school-2027-for-doctoral-researchers-rethinking-cultural-heritage-collections

 

Application deadline: September 15, 2026

 

Open to: Doctoral students from all Una Europa universities, including, of course, the FU Berlin

Funding: Erasmus funding is available at most participating universities to cover travel and living expenses.

 

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me at the department’s International Office.