Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Events and Lectures


 

Registration is required to attend the events listed below. Please register at events.gbz@hu-berlin.de.

All events will also be available via zoom. For details, please register for the event below and indicate that you would like to attend via zoom.

 


 
Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2023

Watch this space for more information on upcoming events!

 

04/05

 

INAUGURAL LECTURE

‘Intelligible Government‘? Rethinking the meaning of monarchy in the age of Charles III

Prof Miles Taylor

Chair British History and Society, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

with a welcome introduction by Professor Sir Christopher Clark Regius Professor of History, University of Cambridge


 

17:00 hours
Centre for British Studies
Room 105
08/05  

KEYNOTE LECTURE
Decolonisation at the Victoria & Albert Museum
The Imperative of Object Biography
Dr Tristram Hunt, Director, Victoria and Albert Museum London

17:00 hours
Jacob-und-Wilhelm-
Grimm Zentrum
Auditorium
 31/05

LECTURE

Ireland‘s Unmarried Fathers

Dr Clair Wills FBA, HonMRIA
King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge
Respondent Prof Gisela Holfter
Professor and Director, Centre Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick

17:00 hours

Centre for British Studies
Room 105

02/06

STUDENT-LED PROJECT

Sounds and Vision: 100 years of the BBC in Berlin

MA British Studies class 2022/24

17:00 hours

Jacob-und-Wilhelm-
Grimm Zentrum
Auditorium

 

12/06

LECTURE

Conservative Women and Public Action from a European Perspective
Dr Clarisse Berthezène
Professor of Modern British History, Vice-President Université Paris Diderot

17:00 hours
Centre for British Studies
Room 105

 17/06 EXHIBITION
Happy in Berlin: English Writers in the City
Prof Gesa Stedman & Prof Stefano Evangelista
Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
17:00 hours
Lichthof Ost
Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6

03/07

LECTURE

What is political deference and can it help repair the British constitution today?
Dr Catherine Marshall
Professor of British Studies, Director of the Agora Research Centre, CY Cergy Paris Université

17:00 hours
Centre for British Studies
Room 105

 


 
Ongoing:

 

Britons in Berlin: An Exploration through the Senses (Student-led online exhibition)

 


 

More information on previous events can be found here.

For press releases of current and past events please click here.

 


 

All events will also be available via zoom. For details, please register for the event below and indicate that you would like to attend via zoom.

 

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