Destiny in the Stars: The Beginnings of the Zodiac, Exhibition of the ZODIAC project in the Neues Museum Berlin, March 21, 2026 - January 10, 2027

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

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

Global History Colloquium: Laetitia Lenel (Universität Duisburg-Essen) on "Decline: On the Circulation of Narratives of Decline in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Politics"

„Rethinking Romanness in the post-Roman West“ – James Harland im Althistorischen Forschungskolloquium

Location: Raum A.336 Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin

Global History Colloquium: Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University) on "A Global History of Socialist Rijeka: How a Port Connected Yugoslavia to the World"

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

BCCN Lecture Series: David Yang: Government as Venture Capitalists in AI

Location: online

Global History Colloquium: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam) on "The Mutating Menace: The Global Politics of Narcotics Trafficking in Germany, 1880 to the Present"

BCCN Lecture Series: Jeffrey Ding: Reputation Collectives: How International Industry Associations Influence China’s Safety Standards in High-Risk Technologies

Location: online

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

Global History Colloquium: Martin Hamre (Freie Universität Berlin) on "Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s"

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)

MA Global East Asia - Introduction on January 6, 2026

BCCN Lecture Series: Eddie Yang: Propaganda is already influencing large language models: evidence from training data, audits, and real-world usage

Location: online

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

Closing Colloquium of Magical Realisms, by Hanan Natour & Team

Global History Colloquium: Denis Cogneau (Paris School of Economics) on "Empire on the Cheap: An Economic History of French Colonialism, 1830–1962"

Rethinking Kabbalah: Its Origins and Its Beginnings

Location: Fabeckstraße 23/25, „Holzlaube" 14195 Berlin R. 2.2063

BCCN Lecture Series: Angela Huyue Zhang: The Promise and Perils of China's Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

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

Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Wissensgeschichte des Altertums and the ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Ralph Neuäuser, "Celestial observations by the Carolingians - knowledge transfer from Arabia on planets, eclipses, and the zodiac"

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

Mathieu Ossendrijver at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

BCCN Lecture Series: Hui Zhou and Genia Kostka (online): From Virtual Assistants to Intimate Partners: Factors Driving Chatbot Adoption and How Users Develop Emotional Attachment to Chatbots

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

Audrey Truschke (Rutgers University Newark), "Fieldnotes from Battles over Indian History, Society, and Sciences"

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

5th Berlin Reading Evening of Dead Languages ​​(LetoS)

Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Wissensgeschichte des Altertums and the ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Hamid Bohloul, "Royal Horoscopes in Persian"

Global History Colloquium: Quinn Slobodian (Boston University) on "Technoking: A Global History of Elon Musk"

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

Global History Colloquium: Sarah Bellows-Blakely (Freie Universität Berlin), Abosede George (Columbia University) on "Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi" - Book Launch

Workshop "South-South Comparativism: Histories, Methods, Repertoires"

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

Global History Colloquium: Jennifer Altehenger (University of Oxford) on "Thinking Standards: Planning Commonly Used Furniture in Socialist China"

Conference "Ancient Practical Expertise and Knowledge Practices", RFE Research Network

Global History Colloquium:Heather Jones (University College London) on "The Global Turn in First World War Studies and Its Impact on the History of the War"

WORKSHOP: Dynamic Perspectives - Advancing Archaeology with 3D Tools

Tianyue Lei (Renmin University of China), "Soul and Body of Shengguantu: The Stable Terminology Needled the Way through Gameboards)"

Global History Colloquium: Dominique Reill (University of Miami) on "The Habsburg Mayor of New York: Fiorello LaGuardia"

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

Global History Colloquium: Stefanie Gänger (Universität Heidelberg) on “'The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases': Global Histories of Fever, 1770–1830"

Workshop "Meant to Move. Kinetic expression in figurines from ancient Western Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Wissensgeschichte des Altertums und das ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Marina Escolano-Poveda, (in colaboration with Kim Ryholt), "Heavenly Bodies: Astrological Physiognomies in Egypt and Qumran"

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

Global History Colloquium: Lauren Stokes (Northwestern University) on "The Jet Age in Eight Passengers"

THE JOURNAL MAWĀQIF: An Intellectual History of Post-1967 Beirut (in three acts) | Book Presentation by Yvonne Albers

Dr. Anne Goddeeris, Universität Ghent Exploring the Lives of Priests in Old Babylonian Nippur

Location: Fabeckstr. 23/25 (Holzlaube), Raum 0.2051

Global History Colloquium: Adam Mestyan (Duke University) on "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East"

*KALIMAT EVENT* TALK: Presentation of the KALiMaT project (hybrid), by Oualid El Khattabi

Global History Colloquium: Bernard Keo (Geneva Graduate Institute) on "Imagining Malaya: Peranakan Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Belonging at the End of Empire"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Wissensgeschichte des Altertums und das ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Antonio Panaino, “Stars and Constellations of the Ancient Iranians”

Global History Colloquium: Catherine Davies (Universität Zürich) on "Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat: Eine Geschichte sexueller Gewalt in der Bundesrepublik, 1973–1997"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Wissensgeschichte des Altertums and the ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Marta Iommelli, "Trees and Shrubs in Mesopotamian Therapeutic and Cultural Contexts"

Alex de Voogt (Drew University, New Jersey), "The Ludic Lexicon an the History of Games", Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

ZODIAC talk: Alessia Pilloni, “Gazing at the Sky Above Babylonia”, SASA Winter 2025 Master Class

Heba Mahmoud Saad (Alexandria University), "Reconsidering the Mamluk Village: Readings on al-Dimashqī’s Filaḥa Manual", Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Amit Deshmukh (MIT Institute of Design, Pune, India), "Mapping the Literary Evidences of Board Games in Medieval Marathi Literature", Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums and the ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Tim Brandes, "The Concept of Time in Mesopotamia"

Global History Colloquium: Sherene Seikaly (University of California Santa Barbara) on "The Matter of Time: Race, Catastrophe, and Palestine"

Heike Frick on "Socially Engaged Art in China / East Asia" (MAGEA Lecture Series)

Location: Holzlaube, Fabeckstrasse 23-25 Room 2.2058

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

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

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

Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Wissensgeschichte des Altertums and the 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"

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

Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums and the ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Pouyan Rezvani, "Ptolemy's star catalogue in the medieval Islamic sources"

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

Global History Colloquium: Onur Edur (Humboldt-Universität) on "Schule des Südens: Die kolonialen Wurzeln der französischen Theorie"

Global History Colloquium: Elise Franklin (University of Louisville) on "Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France"

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

Global History Colloquium: Quentin Deluermoz (Université Paris Cité) on "Decision-Making in Revolutionary Situations: The Paris Commune Between Local Dynamics and Global Reverberations"

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

Global History Colloquium: Nikolaus Wachsmann (Birkbeck College) on "Approaching Auschwitz – Writing the History of the Nazi Camp, 1940–45"

Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums and the ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Robert Middeke-Conlin, "Another day at the office: Tracking epistemic change in the minutiae of daily work-life in ancient Mesopotamia"

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

Research Colloquium ZODIAC, Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums and the ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Levente László, "The Personification of the Planets in Ancient Astrology"

Global History Colloquium: Nell Irvin Painter (Princeton University) on "The History of White People and I Just Keep Talking – A Conversation"

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.

AGYA Conference: Translation and Multilingualism in the Premodern Islamic World(s)

Rethinking Korea beyond Borders: Interregional Historical Perspectives through Korean-European Scholarship

Location: Seminar Room Otto-von-Simson-Straße 11, 14195 Berlin

Global History Colloquium: Iza Ding (Northwestern University) on "Liberalism, Nationalism, and Paths Out of Reform: A Comparison of Late-Qing China and Nineteenth-Century Germany"