Key Events
Our Key Events
Indepence:
„Art in the Foyer“
12.10.2009, Foyer HU-Hauptgebäude, Unter den
Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Past meets present: The artist Ceal Floyer re-contextualises Karl
Marx's words from the 11th thesis on Feuerbach that were attached to
the wall in golden letters in 1953.
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Education:
“Inauguration of the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrums”
Grimm-Zentrum, November 19th 2009,
Geschwister-Scholl-Str.1, 10117 Berlin
Knowledge for everyone: with the Grimm-Zentrum, the
Humboldt-Universität is opening the largest open access library in the
German-speaking world. It is open to every citizen in Berlin and stays
open until midnight.
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Freedom:
“Humboldt-debates in cooperation with the Mercator
foundation”
April 29th 2010, Festssaal der Humboldt
Graduate School, July 8th 2010, October 14th 2010
Where are we heading? How should we work? Who should be allowed to
study and how can we improve? Internationally renowned academics and
politicians will pose topical questions and offer authoritative answers
in four debates in unusual areas of the university.
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Responsibility:
“In the middle of the city – 200 years of the Universtität Unter den
Linden”
April 16th – August 15th 2010, Grimm-Zentrum,
Geschwister-Scholl-Str.1, 10117 Berlin.
History comes alive: this exhibit takes you on a journey through the
turbulent history of the university. Experience how it all began and
how it developed. See the scenes of scholarship and numerous objects
from university chancellors, students and teachers.
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Wissenschaft:
“Humboldt on the move”
May 15th: Alexanderplatz,
May 20th: Helmholtzplatz,
May 22th: Breitscheidplatz,
May 27th: Potsdamer Platz,
May 29th: Marheinekeplatz,
June 3rd: Hermannplatz und
June 5th: HU Hauptgebäude
Discover and be discovered: The Humboldt-Universität hits the streets
to offer public seminars, student laboratories, discussion groups and
trial courses in central locations in Berlin. Come along and join in!
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Future:
“Humboldt’s Model. The Future of Universities in the World of
Research”
October 7th- 9th October 2010, Senatssaal,
Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin.
Where we come from and where we are going: Leading academics,
university politicians and academic managers will be considering the
relevance today of the Humboldt ideal at this conference. With support
from the BMBF.
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