Events
The following events are held in English. All events of the department can be found here.
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
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
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
TALK: Liberation, Emancipation and Decoloniality in Modern Tunisian Fiction, by Hanan Natour (EUME)
An event organized as part of the EUME Berliner Seminar
MA Global East Asia (MAGEA) - Introduction (online)
Location: Online (Webex)
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
