The collaborative research center "Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe" warmly invites all interested members of the public to its Open Day on Friday 25 May 2012, 2 - 6 pm.
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The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg celebrates its sixtieth anniversary this year. Universität Hamburg and the UIL warmly invite all to attend a day of public lectures and a podium disscussion to mark this milestone.
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The Carolingian Manor Farm Lauresham Experimental Archeology Open-air Lab project run by Pre- and Protohistory in the Archaeological Institute at Universität Hamburg and the Lorsch Monastery world heritage site was awarded 4.5 million euros by the Federal Minstry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, the Federal State of Hessen, and the City of Lorsch. The project is the largest of its kind in Europe. Universität Hamburg is the only university in Germany with expertise in conceiving and guiding this type of archeological project.
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Thai Studies in the Asien-Afrika-Institut at Universität Hamburg warmly invites you to come along to the Department's Third Thai Day on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May 2012. This event will take place in the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Main Building, East Wing. Entry is free. This year's Thai Day marks the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Germany and Thailand. The program includes both academic papers and cultural events.

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The recently rediscovered composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) is now celebrated as one of the most important Russian composers of the twentieth century, for example during the Bregenzer Festspiele. From 11 to 13 May 2012 an international symposium at the Institute of Musicology at Universität Hamburg will focus on the life and work of Weinberg. Two concerts, both thematically related to the symposium, will round off this event.
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Universität Hamburg's University Council held the constitutive assembly of its third term in office on 3 May 2012. The Council reelected the physicist and former director of the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotrons (DESY), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Albrecht Wagner, as its chair.
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Dr. Tobias Heed from the Department of Psychology at Universität Hamburg has been accepted onto the German Research Foundation's Emmy Noether Program. The program supports outstanding junior researchers by enabling them to head up their own junior research group and gain experience and skills in managing academic research. Heed's research group will investigate the sensomotoric processing and the transformation of coordinates in the human brain. The project has received around one million euros worth of funding.
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To this day there are still far fewer women than men in managerial positions. According to the results of a joint research project between Universität Hamburg and Universität Leipzig, in order to change this trend, companies will have offer their female employees more than just flexible work models. Five teams of researchers working in the fields of psychology, socialeconomy, and education spent over three years investigating which personal and work-related factors encourage or hinder career progression amongst women.
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Universität Hamburg took part in Girls' and Boys' Day on 26 April 2012 with twenty-six events for school students from grades five to ten. Some 180 girls and 40 boys alone attended sessions offered by the School of Mathematics, Informatics, and Natural Sciences (MIN).
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The Postdoctoral Research Group "Sustainable Future" has commenced its work within the newly established Center for a Sustainable University.The Center aims to provide outstanding postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students with the opportunity to pursue research projects dealing with questions, problems, and aspects of sustainability. Young researchers wishing to apply for the second round of postdoctoral fellowships can submit their applications to the Center by 30 June 2012.
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In an all-day event involving hundreds of students, teaching, and administrative staff, Universität Hamburg set the tone for a revision of the Bologna Reform in Hamburg. Following President Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen's highly critical assessment of Bologna, Dr. Thomas Grünewald from Potsdam University peppered his defence of the intention and implementation of the Bologna Process with an array of suggestions for reworking the bachelor and master system. The final speaker Sinah Mielich, representing the Student Association, offered a fundamentally critical analysis of Bologna.  More...

Dr. Annika Herwig from the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg has been accepted to the Emmy-Noether program of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her research team will be investigating Djungarian hamster to determine how the brains of seasonal mammals regulate their energy and body weight which, in contrast to non-seasonal mammals, vary greatly from season to season. More...

Writer Felicitas Hoppe, who has just published her critically acclaimed auto-fictive novel Hoppe, will be Visiting Professor for Intercultural Poetics at Universität Hamburg as of summer 2012. For the opening event of the lecture series "Adventures. Worlds. Travel" on Friday, 13 April 2012 at 2 pm, Hoppe will read excerpts from her work under the title The Hairdressers Come Every Year in May. More...

The first ever institute for sign language in Germany, the Center for German Sign Language and Communication for the Deaf, was founded at Universität Hamburg by Prof. Siegmund Prillwitz in 1987. The Insitute for German Sign Language and Communication for the Deaf (IDGS), as it is now known, is still today the only institute devoted exclusively to the study of sign language in Germany. To celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary the IDGS warmly invites members of the public to attend festivities. More...

Since 1982 Universität Hamburg has been offering public lectures. To mark its thirtieth anniversary, the General Lecture Series will present a series of lectures entitled "Perspectives and Meaning of Public Science and Scolarship" in the 2012 summer semester. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Fischer-Appelt, former president of Universität Hamburg, and Prof. Dr. Holger Fischer, vice president for studies and teaching, will take part in the podium discussion that follows. More...

A study conducted in the Department of Education at Universität Hamburg reveals a correlation between excessive use of the Internet by adolescents and family interaction. The study, "EXIF: Excessive Use of the Internet in Families," was funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and found a correlation between excessive use of the Internet and a family's (media-related) child-raising practices.  More...

The Center for University Continuing Education (AWW) at Universität Hamburg will once again offer its Contact Studies Program for Mature Adults (KSE) in summer semester 2012. Contact students can choose from over three hundred classes. Prospective contact students can now order the current program guide free of charge and enrol in contact studies. More...

For the first time, scientists at Hamburg's KlimaCampus have successfully developed a method for determining the thickness of thin arctic sea ice over an extensive area. They used data from the remote sensing satellite SMOS, which was launched into space in 2009 by the European Space Agency (ESA). Results were published yesterday in the science journal "Geophysical Research Letters."  More...

The European Research Council (ERC) has approved a 2.5 million euro grant for Prof. R.J. Dwayne Miller, Center for Free Electron Laser Science, for a joint research project with the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Prof. Miller will test his newly-developed laser scalpel with the support of a team from the UKE, headed by the physicist Dr. Wolfgang Wöllmer and the dean's office. More...

On 7 March 2012, the presidents and vice-presidents in the Association of North German Universities elected a new spokeswoman from among their ranks. Dr. Babette Simon, president of the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, will head the Association for the next three years. She succeeds Dr. Wilfried Müller, rector of the University of Bremen, who served for six years and plans to retire this year.   More...

Loki Schmidt Haus, the museum devoted to crop plants in Universität Hamburg's Botanical Garden, will open its own special exhibition "Picturing Botany - Making the Invisible Visible" on Sunday, 11 March 2012 at 2 pm. The exhibition showcases pictures originating from botanical research and teaching, historical collections, and artistic works. Entry is free. More...

The Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE),a joint institution with the School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at Universität Hamburg and the Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, has received 2.3 million euros in funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to expand its center for health economics research. More...

The Institute of Law and Economics at Universität Hamburg has agreed to extensive cooperation with the University of Cairo with the aim of building a Center for Law and Economics in Cairo. The center should play a leading role for the entire Near and Middle Eastern regions. More...

Researchers at Universität Hamburg are developing mobility programs that help the elderly maintain and extend their intellectual and physical mobility through strength and balance exercises or so-called "brain jogging". As part of a study on fall prevention amongst the elderly the Department of Human Movement Studies is now looking for individuals aged sixty-five and over wishing to participate. More...

The conference hosted by the German Association of Italian Scholars,  the Professional Association for Italian in Science and School Instruction, will take place from 1 to 3 March 2012 at Universität Hamburg. Using the motto "L'Italia unita - e le unità d’Italia," experts in the field will take a critical look at Italy's unity and diversity in over 50 lectures from the areas of Italian literature, linguistics and teaching.  More...

For the first time, Universität Hamburg is taking part in the nationwide Long Night of Late Papers. The writing workshop for multilingualism and the Central Office of Academic Advising and Psychological Counselling cordially invite students to the event on Thursday, 1 March 2012 from 4 pm to 12 am.  More...