Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Press Releases

 
2021

Date
Title
Link
31/05
Britons in Berlin: An Exploration through the Senses
An Interactive online student-led project held by the Centre for British Studies
2020

Date
Title
Link
16/06
Looking Across the Channel
The HU's Centre for British Studies celebrates its 25th anniversary
2019

Date
Title
Link
8/01
Regulating Uncertain Futures: Law and Science
20/05
Public Reading with writer Alys Conran (Wales)
24/06
Exodus. Reckoning. Sacrifice. Three Meanings of Brexit
24/06
From the Local to the Global:
Political Meetings and Public Space in England 1700-2000
07/10
Emotions and the German Peasants' War, 1524-5
2018

Date
Title
Link
14/01
Call for Applicants 2018
22/01
Youth Receptivity to Radical Rightwing Agendas:
A Pan-European Perspective
05/02
Living or Leaving Brexit Britain? Narratives of Transformations, Lost Privileges and Quieter Everyday
24/04
Why Imagined Economies?
02/05
Imaginary Economics:
Neoliberal Economy and the Arts
28/05
Ebb and Flow of a Not-for-profit Alternative
within the Land of Financial Capitalism:
British Building Societies 1970-2010
02/07
Stigma Machines
10/12
Excavations in Homer: Speculative Archaeologies in Alice Oswald’s and Barbara Köhler’s Responses to the Iliad and the Odyssey
 
2017

Date
Title
Link
13/01
Brexit and the UK Constitution:
Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?
13/01
Brexit:
Xenophobia or Xenophilia?
23/01
Call for Applicants 2017
02/05
Poles in Post-Brexit-Vote Britain
01/06
Brexit and Business Law
19/06
Books, Brexit and Beyond
26/06
Brexit and the Future of UK Universities
03/07
Austerity, Brexit and the Public Mood
12/07
Public Discussion: The Future of the UK
23/07
“It's not the economy, stupid” Brexit and the Cultural Sector
6/11
Keynote: The 21st Century Mind
14/11
Public Reading: The Good Immigrant
29/11
Lecture: Different Worlds of Social Justice
 
2016

Date
Title
Link
28/01
Call for Applicants 2016
12/04
Comparing and Contrasting the Europeanisation of Regions. Asymmetrical Patterns of Regional Action in Sweden and England
10/05                           
Is Britain Going to Leave the EU? The Referendum Campaign and the Crisis of British Democracy
18/05
Brexit, Could it Happen?
25/05
The Future of Scotland in the UK. Does the Popularity of the SNP Make Independence Inevitable?
26/05
Back to the Present: Moments that Made Modern Britain
02/06
Back to the Present: Moments that Made Modern Britain
07/06
Scotland, the United Kingdom and the EU: Ever Looser Unions?
17/06
Devolution in the UK:
Moving towards a Dissolved or Strengthened Union?
30/06
Brexit: What Future for Britain, Germany and Europe?
20/10
The Future of the UK: Post-Brexit Referendum
20/10
Brexit: The Economic Impact
25/10
Keynote Lecture: Sleepwalkers vs Warmongers: The 1914 Debate revisited
20/12
LITERARY FIELD KALEIDOSCOPE:
Public Reading
20/12
A Fusion Perspective on Brexit Crisis Management:
Reflections on a Single Market outside the Single Market?
 2015

 

Date Title Link
03/12
Lecture: Britain Counts.
Knowledge Production in Censuses and Survey Research
from the Nineteenth Century to the Digital Age
Pressemitteilung
24/11
Public Readings of the British Council Literature Seminar: Brit Crime – A New Golden Age of Crime Writing?
Pressemitteilung
12/11
Lecture: The Making of Magna Carta. In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary
Pressemitteilung
30/10 On Liberty – The Case for Retaining the UK Human Rights Act Pressemitteilung
20/10 Austerity and Human Rights in the UK and Europe Pressemitteilung
21/07 Jubiläum des Großbritannien-Zentrums Pressemitteilung
28/04 Public Reading: The Shock of the Fall Pressemitteilung
27/04 Lecture: Britain's Future - in Europe? Pressemitteilung
27/04 Lecture: Politics of Well-Being in Britain Pressemitteilung
14/01 Literaturseminar: Form in Tension Pressemitteilung

 

2014

 

Date Title Link
04/12 Lecture: Cultural Threads. Transnational Textiles Today Pressemitteilung
27/11
Lecture: The Love of Strangers. Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English ‘Fin de Siècle’
Pressemitteilung
27/11

Lecture: After the Scottish Independence Referendum:What now for the Future of the UK?

Pressemitteilung
30/10 Lecture: German History for an English-Speaking Public Pressemitteilung
24/06 The British Literary Marketplace: Prizes for All? Pressemitteilung
16/06

Event: Independent Scotland?
Causes and Consequences

Pressemitteilung
03/06
Lecture: UK Politics and Media.
Following Revelations of Mass Surveillance
Pressemitteilung
07/04 The Pleasure of Leisure: A Regency Ball with Jane Austen

Pressemitteilung

Press Release

 

2012

 

Date Title Link
22/10
Keynote Lecture: Poetics of Crossing: The Zigzag Lines of Late Nineteenth-Century Indian Migration to Britain
 
Pressemitteilung
21/05 Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften: Play It Like Britain

Pressemitteilung

Press Release 

06/02
Monday Lecture: Let the Games Live On – Britischer Botschafter spricht über das Erbe der Olympischen und Paralympischen Spiele 2012
 
Pressemitteilung
30/01 Monday Lecture: The Ground-Zero of Politics: Leben in der post-politischen Stadt? Pressemitteilung
16/01 Exhibition: South Asians Making Britain Pressemitteilung
07/01 Phone Hacking Panel: Abhörskandal in Großbritannien Pressemitteilung

 

2011

 

Date Title Link
26/10 Keynote Lecture: Germany 1990 - the then British Ambassador remembers and reflects Pressemitteilung
05/10 Monday Lecture: Challenges to Universities in the 21st Century Pressemitteilung
04/10 Great Expectations: neue Direktorin am Großbritannien-Zentrum Pressemitteilung
10/01 Monday Lecture: The British Reception of German Expressionism Pressemitteilung

 

2010

 

Date Title Link
06/12 Monday Lecture: Staging the Past: How London‘s Ragged School Museum makes Victorian education accessible for the schoolchildren of today Pressemitteilung
18/10
Keynote Lecture 2010: David Cannadine, Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the
“Special Relationship” in Historical Perspective
Pressemitteilung
05/07 Monday Lecture: Prof Hermione Lee, Reading a Life Pressemitteilung
21/06 Elections Panel: The General Elections Pressemitteilung
17/06 Reading: Bernardine Evaristo Pressemitteilung
01/06 Mysterious Britain Pressemitteilung
17/05 Monday Lecture: Dr Roland Wenzlhuemer, "Yet Another Divided City: London and Global Communications in the 19th Century" Pressemitteilung
22/04 Engagement für die deutsch-britischen Beziehung: Jürgen Schlaeger von der Britischen Königin ausgezeichnet Pressemitteilung
15/02 Master in British studies 2010 Pressemitteilung
01/02 Monday Lecture: Prof Rüdiger Görner, "Britain, the Land without Music - some reflections on a prejudice" Pressemitteilung
27/01 Monday Lecture: Lord Watson, "Jamestown: The Voyage of English" Pressemitteilung

 

2009

 

Date Title Link
12/01
Monday Lecture: Prof Stephen Mennell, "Indigestion in the Long 19th Century: Aspects of English Taste
and Anxiety, 1800-1950"
Pressemitteilung
20/11 Monday Lecture: Ruth Deech, "Ethics and Embryos: National Comparisons" Pressemitteilung
04/11 Monday Lecture: Margaret MacMillan, "The Uses and Abuses of History" Pressemitteilung

 

 

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