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06.02.2025|Research
The Media and Polarization in Europe
Even established democracies such as Germany are becoming increasingly polarized and endangered by the conflicts polarization creates. The role of the media in this process is the focus of 2 research projects being conducted by the Professorship for Climate Communication at the Faculty of Business...
Eine Doktorandin der Graduate School des Exzellenzclusters UWA
03.02.2025|Exzellenzstrategie
Cluster of Excellence UWA: Video Insights Into Manuscript Research
From the history of paper structures to 19th-century Peruvian music archives: Two doctoral students from the Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts” show their exciting and interdisciplinary research in a new video.
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31.01.2025|Excellence
Stories from the jet age: how flying has changed the world
One rejects flying while the other takes a private jet from Hamburg to Sylt. Lauren Stokes, professor of German history at Northwestern University in the United States, explores the economic, social, and political dimensions of flying. The advanced fellow is currently living and researching at...
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30.01.2025|Excellence
The Beginning of the Universe and the Einstein Telescope
Together with cooperation partners, researchers in the University of Hamburg Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe are developing and testing components of the future Einstein Telescope. The large research system is a third-generation gravitational wave detector and is set to be built in Europe in...
A map of strontium isotope ratios in Africa

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28.01.2025|Research
How Botanists Help Identify Origins of Victims of the Slave Trade
From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, more than 12.5 million Africans were trafficked to the New World as part of the transatlantic slave trade. Where the enslaved people came from and what transportion they had to endure in Africa is still largely unknown. In an international project...
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22.01.2025|Research
Success: 11 University of Hamburg Projects Get State Research Funding
From smart cities and history teaching to AI-based infection and autoimmune research: 16 research projects from a wide range of disciplines were selected for the fourth round of state research funding. Eleven of them will be implemented at the University of Hamburg.
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20.01.2025|Research
Doing the Research: How Can School Teaching Effectively Provide Informatics Knowledge?
From 1 August 2025, informatics will be a required subject in all Hamburg secondary schools. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Sandra Schulz at the Faculty of Education, Moritz Kreinsen and the Informatics Education subject group team are researching which methods can effectively provide school...
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13.01.2025|Exzellenzstrategie
Mysterious Damage: Valuable Manuscripts from Tunisia Analysed in Hamburg
Numerous artefacts from one of the world’s most important collections of Islamic manuscripts are affected by an unusual form of degradation. In late 2024, a delegation from Tunisia brought 15 objects to Hamburg and analysed them together with the experts of the Artefact Lab at the Centre for the...
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Eine Doktorandin der Graduate School des Exzellenzclusters UWA
Cluster of Excellence UWA: Video Insights Into Manuscript Research

From the history of paper structures to 19th-century Peruvian music archives: Two doctoral students from the Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts” show their exciting and interdisciplinary research in a new video.