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November 2026

HCA: 19.11.2026

Family, Labor, and the Global Race for Semiconductor Dominance - Prof. Dr. Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard

nature masterclasses: 10-12.11.2026

AI in Academic Writing and Publishing

Heidelberg Gender Lectures: 11.11.2026

Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers in the Literary World Since 1800 - Prof. Dr. Günter Leypoldt, Heidelberg

HCA: 05.11.2026

Beyond the Trump Era? The 2026 Midterms and the Future of American Politics - Professor Robert Saldin, Oxford

Ruperto Carola Ringvorlesung

Heimat & Zeit

Wissenschaft im Dialog

Hochschulwettbewerb: Zeigt Eure Forschung!

Newsletter 2026

October 2026

Innovative University Teaching Fellowships

Heidelberg Gender Lectures: 28.10.2026

Perspectives and Contributions of Black Feminism in Brazil - Prof. Dr. Angela Figueiredo, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia

Podcast: Us and Them

Civil Society and NGOs: Stabilizers or Challengers of the Multilateral Order? – Associate Professor Dr. Dorota Heidrich (Warsaw University)

Podcast: Us and Them

Consumer Acceptance and Consumer Preferences of Emerging Agrifood Technologies – Interview with Associate Prof. Dr. Marija Banovic (Aarhus University)

University of Havana 26.-30.10.2026

Weave science between reality and hope - International Psychology Conference

Cognitive Science: 26.10.2026

Memory and Learning - Prof. Dr. Jan Rummel, Heidelberg

NAR & 4EU+ 22.-23.10.2026

AGE X Workshop on the Biology, Nutrition, and Psychology of Aging

Migration and the Americas: 22.10.2026

Humboldt on the Move: German-Speaking Antifascist Exiles and the Politics of Race in Twentieth-Century Mexico - PD Dr. Andrea Acle-Kreysing, Universität Heidelberg

Workshop: 21.10.2026

Hans-Jürgen Krahl und die vergessene „Kritische Theorie“ - Dr. Rüdiger Dannemann und Hassan Maarfi Poor

Wissenschaft im Dialog

Hochschulwettbewerb: Zeigt Eure Forschung!

Graduate Academy: 20.10.2026

Getting Started on your Doctorate

HCE: 20.10.2026

Future Lab. Welt der Zukunft: Less Doom, More Doing

SFB ISOQUANT | UNIFY: 20.10.2026

Microaggressions in Academia - Dr. Gina Sissoko, Yale School of Public Health & City University of New York

Ladenburg Kolleg „Der Aggressor“: 16.10.2026

Das Ende der liberal-kapitalistischen Demokratie? - Prof. Dr. Yves Sintomer, Paris

Heidelberger Vorträge zur Kulturtheorie: 14.10.2026

Vom politischen Gewand der Muse: Schiller und die Idee des „ästhetischen Staats“ - Prof. Dr. Dieter Borchmeyer, Heidelberg

AI and Ethics: 13.10.2026

Mathematics as Gift Economy - Prof. Dr. Michael Harris, Columbia University

HND-BW: 06.10.2026

hAIgher Education Day 2026: Fachspezifisch lehren und lernen mit Künstlicher Intelligenz

UniWind: 01.10.2026

Beyond academia: Karrierewege für Promovierte

UNIVITALITY - Univital, Unify & Partner

Mental Health Monat 2026

Creative Misreading: Dada, Proto-Dada, and Global Artistic Reinvention

September 2026

summa cum laude

Congratulations to Bahar Akgün!

summa cum laude

Congratulations to Pravin Prakash!

Call for Applications

HGGS Graduate Membership

HGGS Publication

Scientific Paradigms under Debate. Epistemological, Dialogical and Emancipatory Perspectives for Social Transformation.

Podcast: Us and Them

Relating to Others: A (Neo)Platonic Metaphysical Approach – Interview with PD Dr. Max Rohstock and Anna Maria Lambertz-Rohstock (Heidelberg University)

Environmental Change and Society: Understanding and Shaping Transformations

Graduate Academy

LGF Completion Grant

UniWind online 16.09.2026

International good practices in doctoral education

Coimbra Group, Circle U. and King’s College London 17.09.2026

From Panic to Practice: Governing AI in Higher Education

South-South-North 17.09.2026

Thesis Presentations

VolkswagenStiftung 21.-22.09.2026

Symposium: Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften 2040

Marsilius Kolleg: 24.09.2026

The Measured Human: Between Diagnosis, Prevention and Self-Optimization

NAR: 29.09.2026

Todeswunsch im Alter

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Cognitive Science

Villa Vigoni Discussions

Die Junge Akademie

Membership CFA: Interdisciplinarity

August 2026

South-South-North Masterclass: 27.08.2026

Presentation of Final Results

South-South-North Masterclass: 12.08.2026

Presentation of Final Results

South-South-North Masterclass: 05.08.2026

Interdisciplinarity in Theory and Practice - Prof. Cástor David Mora

Postales de la Sombra, Vanessa A. Márquez Vargas (ed.)

Podcast: Us and Them

Energy Transition: Socio-Spatial Tensions – Interview with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann (Heidelberg University)

Summer Forum 2026

Congratulations to the Forum Team!

July 2026

HGGS Summer Forum

ImA(I)gining the Future: How Digital Technologies Rewrite Our World, 16-17 July 2026

HGGS: 14.07.2026

3-Minute-Thesis Competition

HGGS Masterclass: 01.07.2026

Research Methodology - Prof. Cástor David Mora

South-South-North Masterclass: 08.07.2026

The importance of neurodidactics for the development of research, learning-teaching, comprehension and transformation processes - Prof. Cástor David Mora

South-South-North Masterclass: 15.07.2026

Interdisciplinarity - Prof. Cástor David Mora

Versuche Lukács umzudenken, Hassan Maarfi Poor (Hg.)

Graduate Academy: 22.07.2026

Gedankengang - A Nature Walk

NAR: 17.06.-15.07.2026

Alter(n) im Wandel

Filmvorführungen (SFB 1671 Heimat): 22.07.2026

Home and Belonging: Choose Your Favorite

Heidelberg Center for American Studies: 09.07.2026

“Is It Because We Are Negroes?”: Haitian Refugees, Racialized Detention, and Anticolonialism in Puerto Rico

Hörsaal Mathematikon: 08.07.2026

Sustainable AI, Five Years Later

Heidelberger Vorträge zur Kulturtheorie: 08.07.2026

Virgo prudentissima. Marienmusiken aus fünf Jahrhunderten

4EU+ Online: 01.07.2026

Open Access and Beyond

Podcast: Us and Them

Sustainability and Sustainable Innovation Management – Interview with Dr. Maximilian Jungmann (HCE, Heidelberg University)

CRC Home(s): 26-27.11.2026

International Workshop: Home(s) by Food in Places

June 2026

Podcast: Us and Them

The Girih Mode in Context, Experience, and Practice: Toward a Cognitive Ecology of Islamic Ornament in Contemporary Architectural Design – Interview with Bahar Akgün (Heidelberg University)

Marsilius-Kolleg

Young Marsilius Fellowships for Interdisciplinarity and Science Communication

Ruperto Carola Ringvorlesung: 15.06.2026

Ruperto Carola Ringvorlesung: Resilienz demokratischer Systeme – Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich

Camilla-und-Georg-Jellinek-Zentrum für Ethik: 11.06.2026

Jellinek-Dialoge: Moralregulation als professionsethische Aufgabe

Heidelberg Center for the Environment: 10.06.2026

Special Lecture: Climate Justice

Marsilius-Kolleg: 16.06.2026

Freude an der Komplexität, oder warum wir die Wissenschaftskommunikation (radikal) neu denken müssen

Heidelberger Vorträge zur Kulturtheorie: 10.06.2026

Mater dolorosa unter dem Kreuz. Mittelalterliche Marienklagen

Heidelberg School of Education: 09.06.2026

Akademische Mittagspause | Deeper Learning: Was Menschen im KI-Zeitalter neu lernen müssen

Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen: 08.06.2026

Einblicke in die Graswurzelpartnerschaft Rheinland-Pfalz / Ruanda

Gastvortrag (SFB 1671 Heimat(en)): 01.06.2026

Heimat-Blicke vom Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer bis Winnetou im Sonnenuntergang

NAR: 17.06.-15.07.2026

Alter(n) im Wandel

May 2026

Forum Travel Grants

Podcast: Us and Them

The Limits of Understanding – Interview with Antoni Lukasik, Warsaw University

hei_INNOVATION: 20.05.2026

Ideenwettbewerb: Finale

HGGS South-South-North: 20.05.2026

Emely Corcho Rosales (Psychology), Universidad de La Havana, and Alejandro Daniel Castellón (Sociology), UMSA, Bolivia

HGGS: 19.05.2026

Mariia Korneeva (Slavic Studies) and Anna-Zoë Herr (Anthropology) @ HGGS Colloquium

Migration and the Americas (HCA): 19.05.2026

When the State Becomes the Threat: Acting Politically Amid Rising Authoritarianism in Central America - Dr. Julienne Weegles, University of Amsterdam

Jellinek Center for Ethics: 19.05.2026

Conflicts of Power in Research - Prof. Dr. Belina von Krosigk and Prof. Dr. Kathia Serrano Velarde, Heidelberg

Akademische Mittagspause (HSE): 18.05.-02.07.2026

Schule. Bildung. Zukunft. Impulse aus der Heidelberg Lehramtsausbildung

Graduate Academy: 13.05.2026

European Doctoral Day

HGGS South-South-North Colloquium: 13.05.2026

Mary Maldonado (Education), Universidad de Los Andes, and Brando Mesa (Psychology), Universidad de La Habana

HGGS: 12.05.2026

Prateek Pankaj (History) and Sinan Barış Yaşar (Law) @ HGGS Colloquium

Ruperto Carola Ringvorlesung - Wehrhafte Demokratie

The Populist Radical Right – A Threat to Democracy, Prof. Dr. Endre Borbáth, Heidelberg

HGGS Workshop: 06.05.2026

Designing and Conducting Interdisciplinary Research, Bahar Akgün

HGGS South-South-North Colloquium: 06.05.2026

Albis Y. Pabón Basto (Psychology) and Orlan Vielma Rodríguez (Education), ULA, Venezuela

Musikwissenschaft: 05.05.2026

Whales & Nightingales: Musikwissenschaft und Human-Animal Studies - Prof. Dr. Martin Ullrich, Nürnberg

HGGS: 05.05.2026

Elizaveta Savina (German as a Foreign Language) and Eva Marie Heimers (Medieval Latin Philology) @ HGGS Colloquium

April 2026

HGGS: 28.04.2026

Margherita Lanza (English) and Lisa Fahrni (History) @ HGGS Colloquium

HGGS South-South-North Colloquium: 23.04.2026

Eliana Pilar Cossio Coca (Indigenous Cosmovision), UMSA, Bolivia

Podcast: Us and Them

Differences Between First Language and Second Language Acquisition – Interview with Elizaveta Savina, Heidelberg University

HGGS: 22.04.2026

Introductory Workshop

Marsilius-Kolleg

Interdisciplinary Courses

Montagskonferenz: 20.04.-13.07.2026

Regionen: geographische, politische und kulturelle Räume

Heidelberger Vorträge zur Kulturtheorie: 15.04.-22.07.2026

„Ich sehe dich in tausend Bildern“ - Das Marienbild im Wandel der Zeiten

Marsilius Kolleg: 29.04.-15.06.2026

Wissenschaftskommunikation: Leonid Klimov

HCCH: 29.04.-08.07.2026

Kulturerbe im 21. Jahrhundert

INCLUDE Webinar Series: 31.03.-15.06.2026

Teaching INCLUsion, Diversity and Equity

Podcast: Us and Them

The Elgar Companion to the G7: 50 Years of the G7 - Interview with Prof. Dr. Andreas Freytag, Jena University

South-South-North

A warm welcome to our new scholars!

Podcast: Us and Them

HIV Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa - Interview with Dr. Maureen McGowan, Heidelberg University

heiSKILLS: 25.04.2026

Klimajournalismus als Beruf

Charm-EU Course: 20.04.2026 – 29.05.2026

Innovative Teaching in Inter-Institutional Hybrid Classrooms

Studierendenwerk: 23.04.2026

City Tour for Students

hei_INNOVATION: 24.04.2026

Catalyst GER Kick-Off Heidelberg

4. Heidelberger bildungspolitisches Gespräch: 29.04.2026

Demokratie - Vertrauen als Auftrag?

International Conference CfP: 30.04.2026

Global North and Global South Perspectives on Literature, Linguistics, and Translation, 7-8 June 2026

HGGS Summer Semester 2026

South-South-North Colloquium

Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium

March 2026

Seminar (Spanish): 16-23.03.2026

Critical Construct of Digitality: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations

4EU+ Webinar: 18.03.2026

Circular Economy – Challenges and Opportunities in an Evolving European Landscape

Vortrag: 18.03.2026

Wer spricht? Hilde Domins „Doppelinterpretation“ zwischen Anthologie und Dialog

Writing Session 19.03.2026

HGGS Writing Day

Workshop (Spanish): 25-26.03.2026

Postcards from the Shadow * Postales de la Sombra (Creative Writing)

Seminar (Spanish): 25.03.-01.04.2026

Digitality and Contemporary Being

University of Cambridge

Digital Minds Fellowship

Ausstellung und Vorträge

Hilde Domin

Thesis Publication

Escritura Creativa, Vanessa A. Márquez Vargas

Open for you! Webinars and Workshops

Podcast: Us and Them

Us and Them: The Dangers of Juxtaposing Colour-Coded Narrative Worlds – Interview with Dr. Radmila Mladenova, Heidelberg University

Interaktive Lesung: 12.03.2026

mare nostrum

Interkulturelles Zentrum Heidelberg: 11.-29.03.2026

Internationale Wochen gegen Rassismus

NAR-Seminar: 24.03.2026

Digital-gestützte Prävention im höheren Lebensalter

Junge Akademie und VW Stiftung

Award for the Best Research Environment

Körber Stiftung

Deutscher Studienpreis

Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Prospekt Utopia

Podcast: Us and Them

Environmental Economics - Interview with Dr. Federico Zilia, University of Milan

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

International Schools and Conferences

NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon

Beyond Borders: The Role of the Humanities in Reimagining Communities, 1-3 July 2026

HGGS Research News

heiCHANGE: 27-31.03.2026

Sichtbarkeit durch strukturellen Wandel

February 2026

PhD Courses

Marsilius-Vorlesung 2. Feb. 2026

Die Zeiten wandeln sich, und wir ändern uns mit ihnen.

Workshop 5 Feb. 2026

Emotions and Learning

Workshop 10 Feb. 2026

Transformative Learning

Online Event 11 Feb. 2026

Careers in Literature

Lecture 20 Feb. 2026

David Preclik (Cambridge): „Politischer Aktivismus“

hei_INNOVATION 24 Feb. 2026

Lunch & Learn

Podcast: Us and Them

Zooming in on Individuals in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction. Interview with Selin Beyhan, Heidelberg University

Podcast: Us and Them

Ambivalent Enmity in Bordering Processes – Interview with Dr. Philipp Zehmisch, Heidelberg University

University of Havana and MHE

Universidad 2026, 9-13 Feb. 2026

Lecture series on opportunities for scientific careers

International Research

Global Minds Initiative Germany

Final-year PhD Scholarship

Sorbonne University

Cotutelle Doctoral Contracts

January 2026

HGGS Winter Forum

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries

Masterclass 8 Jan. 2026

Prof. Martin W. Bauer, LSE

Podcast: Us and Them

Strange Creatures: Imaging and Imagining Other Peoples – Interview with Dr. Martin Hofmann, Heidelberg University

HGGS Masterclasses

Research Methods

Doktorandengremium

Nadja Samira Fraenkel

Doktorandengremium

Eva Marie Heimers

pODCAST: US and Them

Episode 16: Determination of Criminal Responsibility: The Usability of AI in Criminal Proceedings and Implications on Human Rights - Interview with Isabell Eiwan, Heidelberg University

NAR I Netzwerk Alternsforschung

Online-Studie zur Einstellung gegenüber älteren Menschen

Wittenberg-Zentrum für Globale Ethik

Frühjahrsakademie, 23.-24. März 2026

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