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The European Research Council funded project, “Slow Motion: Transformations of Musical Time in Perception and Performance/SloMo” examines slow motion stylistic devices in films and dance performances —to explore what effect this has on the audience’s perception of time. One symposium highlights the...

Universität Hamburg’s international network is continuing to grow: approximately 50 members of Universität Hamburg and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen met to talk about future, more comprehensive collaboration.

Universität Hamburg enjoys another resounding success with the German Research Foundation (DFG) DFG has approved and will fund all 4 research training groups (RTGs) to the tune of €19.3 million in total. The research training groups will begin their work in April 2020 in the Departments of...

Events surrounding Prof. Dr. Bernd Lucke resumption of teaching duties have concerned students and staff at Universität Hamburg as well as the media. University management has been confronted with many questions which we have put together and answered below.

The new exhibition on Universität Hamburg’s past and present gives an exciting glimpse into 100 years of teaching, research, campus life, and university culture. It also reveals a University that reflects Germany’s own eventful history.

From 17–20 September 2019, the Department of International Affairs at Universität Hamburg invited all its all strategic and key international university partners to attend a conference at Universität Hamburg. The conference was attended by participants from 18 universities from 13 countries, with...

Every summer, farmers in the Amazonian basin light fires, to clear land for farming. Currently, there are thousands of forest fires that are burning out of control. Brazilian researcher Debora Ferriera Pestana, a doctoral graduate of Universität Hamburg, explains why the forest is so important as a...

It is now official: Universität Hamburg is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. What, however, does that mean for Universität Hamburg? What steps can or must it now take? Where will it go from here? The University’s president, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Lenzen, explains what it means...