Events
The following events are held in English. All events of the department can be found here.
MA Global East Asia (MAGEA) - Introduction (online)
Location: Online (Webex)
TALK: Liberation, Emancipation and Decoloniality in Modern Tunisian Fiction, by Hanan Natour (EUME)
An event organized as part of the EUME Berliner Seminar
Vortrag Florian Linsel und Jan Bullenkamp - Understanding Cuneiform and Lithic Technologies Using 3D Analyses
On Wednesday, January 7, 2026, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Florian Linsel und Jan Bullenkamp (FU Berlin, Institut für Computational Ancient Studies) will give a lecture entitled " Understanding Cuneiform and Lithic Technologies Using 3D Analyses ". The lecture, in English, will also be streamed online (see link below). Our research focuses on 3D scans of artefacts, how they are created, and how we can develop new methods for analysing them. In this talk, we will explain our workflows ranging from 3D scanning to advanced computational analysis, and demonstrate our methods using cuneiform tablets and lithic artefacts. We will also show how 3D scans of experimental knapping and cuneiform tablets can help us understand the fundamental relation between scars on lithic artefacts and wedges on cuneiform.
Location: Raum: 0.2051, Seminarraum im EG des Gebäudes Holzlaube, Fabeckstrasse 23-25, 14195 Berlin (U3 Dahlem Dorf) Webex-Meeting-Daten: Meeting Link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m300204f2ebee2b89741989ec6db87bfa Meeting -Kennnummer: 2732 922 5013 Kennwort: ipaw25 (472925 bei Einwahl von Telefon oder Videosystem) Gastgeber-Kennwort: 976451
DHC Lecture mit Johan Fredrikzon
Vortrag von Johan Fredrikzon (KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm) im Rahmen der Dahlem Humanities Center Lectures
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Seminarzentrum, Raum L 116 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin
kalimat | WORKSHOP | Rhetorical and Poetical Terms in the Arabic Tradition. Configuration and Transformation.
Convened by B. Gruendler and J. Stephan
Location: Freie Universität Berlin FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Institut für Arabistik Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Prof. Dr. Johanna Fabricius – Dr. Jenny Schlehofer – Anthi Tiliakou, MSc (Berlin – Leipzig): Social Belonging and Biological Kinship at the Rise of a Greek City-State. Genetic Exploration of Area 3 of the Halieis Necropoleis
Location: Raum -1.2009, Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin Dahlem
„Rethinking Romanness in the post-Roman West“ – James Harland im Althistorischen Forschungskolloquium
Location: Raum A.336 Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin
Prof. Dr. Judith Barringer (Edinburgh / Berlin): Seeking the Divine in a Faraway Place: Western Greeks and Sanctuaries Abroad
Location: Raum -1.2009, Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin Dahlem
Hegel Lecture mit Jill Lepore
Vortrag von Jill Lepore (Harvard University) im Rahmen der Hegel Lecture-Reihe des Dahlem Humanities Center
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Hörsaal 1b, Rost- und Silberlaube Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
TALK: The Arabic Typewriter: Towards a Global History, by Hannah Scott Deuchar (EUME)
An event organized as part of the EUME Berliner Seminar
Location: Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin
Rethinking Kabbalah: Its Origins and Its Beginnings
Location: Fabeckstraße 23/25, „Holzlaube" 14195 Berlin R. 2.2063
Forschung im Dialog: DFG_Kollegforschungsgruppe "Applied Humanities. Genealogy and Politics"
Viktoria Tkaczyk und Anke te Heesen präsentieren im Rahmen der Veranstaltung "Forschung im Dialog" des Dahlem Humanities Center die DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe "Applied Humanities. Genealogy and Politics" (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Seminarzentrum, Raum L 116 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin
Vortrag von Kepa Martinez Garcia "Identities and Networks through Glyptic Evidence: Inter-Urban Relationships in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia"
Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zum Vortrag von Kepa Martinez Garcia " Identities and Networks through Glyptic Evidence: Inter-Urban Relationships in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia ". Kepa Martinez Garcia ist derzeit Fellow des Projekts 'KIŠIB — Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings' der Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), the Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW) und der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU).
Location: Raum 0.2052 (Holzlaube) Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
KEC Special Lecture - The Authenticity of Clay Seals from Lelang Commandery: Colonialism and Nationalism in Early Korea [Prof. Youngchan Oh]
Location: December 10, 2025 4:00 - 6:00 PM (CET) Offline Event Holzlaube 2.2063, Fabeckstr. 23/25, 14195 Berlin
KEC Special Lecture Series on North Korea - Dr. Benoit Berthelier
Location: Online (Webex) Please register in advance: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/weblink/register/rad3fab57b5eb187b528b20458ceea2e8
Global History Colloquium: Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd (Stockholm University) on "A History of the Moral Economy: Community, Institutions, and Social Norm"
Location: FU Berlin, FMI, Room A336, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
Guest lecture: School memorials as sites of memory and the dynamics of remembrance after the Great East Japan Earthquake (Julia Gerster)
Location: Seminar Room 004 Graduate School Villa Arnimallee 11 14195 Berlin
Berlin-Kopenhagen-Seminar "The Archaeology of Sensory Experience and Perception"
Location: Raum 2.2058 (Holzlaube) Fabekstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
Vortrag von Dr. Uroš Matić "Sights, Sounds and Smells of War: A Multisensory Approach to Ancient Egyptian Battles and Their Representations"
Location: Raum 2.2058 (Holzlaube) Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
TALK (hybrid): Authorship, Authority, and Audience in Premodern Arabic Recipe Collections, by Leonie Boettiger
Location: Arabic Studies "Holzlaube" Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14105 Berlin-Dahlem –1.1062 Seminarraum Hybrid participation: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=md74c22ec4c3af48e8734bb00de015d14
Joseph Torigian: "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping"
Location: FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (Holzlaube) Room 2.2058 Fabeckstrasse 23-25 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Lecture by Carl-Ludwig Holtrerich: Edward A. Tenenbaum and the Deutschmark
Location: Raum 340 John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Opening of the poster exhibition „Connecting Worlds. Global perspectives in history and cultural studies”
Location: Student Café "Holzkopf" basement area of Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23/25
Charles Steitler (Akademie der Wissenschaften Mainz) The AN.DAḪ.ŠUM Festival: New researchprogress and potentialperspectives
Location: Fabeckstr. 23/25 (Holzlaube), Raum 0.2051
Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Wissensgeschichte des Altertums und das ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Reimund Leicht, "The dynamics of scientific decline in Late antiquity: Some tentative thoughts about models of interpretation for the history of science"
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 10, Room 010, 14195 Berlin
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Langin-Hooper, SMU Dallas Sealing Your Fate: Zodiac Astrology, Movement, and Replication of the Divine Image in Hellenistic Babylonian Seals and Seal Impressions
Location: Fabeckstr. 23/25 (Holzlaube), Raum 0.2051
Dr. Anne Goddeeris, Universität Ghent Exploring the Lives of Priests in Old Babylonian Nippur
Location: Fabeckstr. 23/25 (Holzlaube), Raum 0.2051
Heike Frick on "Socially Engaged Art in China / East Asia" (MAGEA Lecture Series)
Location: Holzlaube, Fabeckstrasse 23-25 Room 2.2058
VORLESUNG: Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood — George Kiraz
im Rahmen von Die Vielfalt Palästinas – eine kulturelle Zeitreise Eine interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung der Wissenschaftlichen Einheit Westasien, Nordafrika und Diaspora am Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Thielallee 67, Hörsaal 002, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
VORLESUNG: Kites against Walls: The Israeli Separation Wall in Palestinian Children's Literature — Looay Wattad
im Rahmen von Die Vielfalt Palästinas – eine kulturelle Zeitreise Eine interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung der Wissenschaftlichen Einheit Westasien, Nordafrika und Diaspora am Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin Vortrag in englischer Sprache
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Thielallee 67, Hörsaal 002, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
On Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th: screening of the documentary film "Back in Berlin"
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Thielallee 67 Lecture hall
Dr. Guy Ackermann (Genf / Berlin): Education and sports on the island of Delos. New insights into the history of the Gymnasium and Lake Palestra
Location: Raum -1.2009 in der Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Panel Discussion "How Plague became Globally Visualised - Mapping as Method in Modern Western Medicine"
Location: Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt Einstein-Saal Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla on "Infrastructures of Control and Service: The CCP and Grassroots Governance in Beijing" (MAGEA Lecture Series)
Location: Holzlaube, Fabeckstrasse 23-25 Room 2.2058
BCCN Talk "Youth Movements in Asia, Past and Present: The Transnational Side of the Story" by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Location: Holzlaube, Fabeckstrasse 23-25 Room 0.2001
From maritime trade to Roman pharmacy: a case study of the cassia subspecies of Dioscorides
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room A 336
Christian Meyer on "CHINA'S RELIGION(S) IN PAST AND PRESENT" (MAGEA Lecture Series)
Location: Holzlaube, Fabeckstrasse 23-25 Room 2.2058
VORLESUNG: Palestinian Female Poets: Voicing the Silence — Izza Abu Hajja
im Rahmen von Die Vielfalt Palästinas – eine kulturelle Zeitreise Eine interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung der Wissenschaftlichen Einheit Westasien, Nordafrika und Diaspora am Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin Vortrag in englischer Sprache
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Thielallee 67, Hörsaal 002, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Ines Eben v. Racknitz on "Current Research Trends and New Paradigms in Chinese History in the Age of Xi Jinping" (MAGEA Lecture Series)
Location: Holzlaube, Fabeckstrasse 23-25 Room 2.2058
The location of Nysa before Alexander the Great
Location: Online
GEAS Homecoming Symposium 2024
Location: 12-14 PM: 0.1063 Holzlaube, Fabeckstr. 23-25 14-17 PM: Lecture Hall, Neuberg Villa (Graduate School House), Hittorfstr. 18
Counting the years: Ptolemy and the Table of Kings
Location: Room 006/007 Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: Anthologies Across Cultures: Textual Methods – Aesthetic Practices – Temporal Entanglements
Organised by Anne Eusterschulte and Beatrice Gründler, project Premodern Anthologies and the Selective Fiction of Tradition Building , Research Area 3: "Future Perfect" at EXC 2020 - Temporal Communities
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Freie Universität Berlin EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" Room 00.05 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Online participation is possible via Cisco Webex. You will receive the meeting link after registration. For registration please contact: Hanan Natour, hanan.natour@fu-berlin.de
Introduction to Digital Research Methods — M. Xenia Kudela
WORKSHOP for STUDENTS
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Arabistik Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Room: UG, -1.1062 (Holzlaube / Souterrain)
Colloquium for Contemporary History: Juliette Masquelier (University of Antwerp) on "Catholic Couples and Their Counsellors. Prescribing and Achieving ‘Sexual Harmony’ in Belgium in the 1950s"
Location: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut | Raum A.336
KEYNOTE: Arabic Lingua Franca and Popular Philosophy — Beatrice Gruendler
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Faculty of History and Cultural Studies Institute of Islamic Studies Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14105 Berlin-Dahlem Recording and upload of all conference sessions on YouTube.
Rethinking Korea beyond Borders: Interregional Historical Perspectives through Korean-European Scholarship
Location: Seminar Room Otto-von-Simson-Straße 11, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Prof. Alexandre Caeiro (Hamad Bin Khalifa University): "Beyond Legal Orientalism: Notes from the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf States"
Location: Room 2.2058 (Holzlaube, 2nd floor) Freie Universität Berlin Fachbereich Geschichts- u. Kulturwissenschaften Institut für Islamwissenschaft Prof. Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
The Ritual Landscapes of Murayghat, an Early Bronze Age site in Jordan
Location: Room 1.2051 "Holzlaube" FU Berlin Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Book Presentation: "Making Islam Work" by Thilj Sunier
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Fachbereich Geschichts- u. Kulturwissenschaften Institut für Islamwissenschaft Prof. Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin Raum 1.2051
Tianxia or Empire? The Entanglement of China in Global East Asia
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
Environmental Politics in Contemporary China
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
Gender in China
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
Just a tool? On Language competence requirements in academic programs of Chinese Studies
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
China's Religion(s) in Past and Present
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
Human-Animal Relations within the Japanese Empire
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
The Future of Welfare and Japan’s Ageing Society in Comparative Perspective
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
East Asian Diplomatic and Legal History from a Global Perspective
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
Religious Nationalism or the Narrative of Jesus Christ Dying in Japan
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
Japan’s Rural Areas: Urban-Rural Migration and Rural Revitalization
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
North Korea
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
Writing a History of Korean Philosophy
Location: Holzlaube Fabeckstraße 23-25 Room 1.2058
