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Great opportunity ▶️Call for Applications: 11th International Summer School of the Digital Interview Collections at the Freie Universität Berlin. ↘️

Call for Applications. Summer School: Verschlossene Grenzen. Erinnerungen an Flucht, Migration & Exil in Video-Interviews mit Überlebenden des Nationalsozialismus.

Bis zum 19. Mai können sich alle internationalen (Nachwuchs-)wissenschaftler*innen, die an der an der Beschäftigung mit Oral History zum Nationalsozialismus interessiert und in der Vergangenheit als internationale Studierende oder Gastwissenschaftler*innen an einer deutschen Hochschule studiert oder geforscht haben für unsere diesjährige Summer School bewerben.
http://www.vha.fu-berlin.de/fu/summer_schools/summer_school_2019/index.html

It was amazing to meet so many ambitious and motivated students at the Germany Grad Fair last week! A big thank you to everyone who joined us. If you'd like to keep exploring your options for studying at Freie Universität Berlin or Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, head over to our website 🔎 germanuniversities.org 🇩🇪

Every few months we send out a newsletter, and this spring, we're trying something new 🦋 Featuring a handy digest of new, weird and wonderful research findings at Freie Universität Berlin & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, an interview with Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies researcher Gil Thompson, upcoming US events and more. Read it all here (and let us know what you think!) bit.ly/2Fwx4us

Alumni in the The New York Times! 📰 🗽Journalists Christina Horsten (Freie Universität Berlin) and Felix Zeltner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) are pioneering a different way to live in New York City: Moving to a new neighborhood each month... not as crazy as it sounds! Read about their adventure here nyti.ms/2usQOd9 or find out more at www.stadtnomaden-buch.de

Another Month, Another Neighborhood Before landing on the Upper West Side, a family from Germany spent a year moving around New York City.

This semester, two acclaimed writers will take up the post of Samuel Fischer Guest Professor for Literature at the Peter Szondi Institut für AVL at Freie Universität Berlin ✍️ Madeleine Thien, author of the award-winning 2016 novel 'Do Not Say We Have Nothing', and photographer and writer Rawi Hage, whose latest novel is 'Beirut Hellfire Society'. Together they will present a seminar under the title of 'Double Exposures: Transposition, Substitution and Autonomy as Literary Response'.

The Samuel Fischer Guest Professorship is a joint initiative by FU Berlin, DAAD, S. Fischer Verlage and Veranstaltungsforum Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, and counts Yann Martel, Richard Powers and Vladimir Sorokin among its past recipients.

Madeleine Thien und Rawi Hage übernehmen Gastprofessur

How will AI change our world? Experts from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München reflect here on a range of possibilities that might be closer than we think – from AI-driven economic decision-making, to chatbots that change our social lives 🧠

How smart will AI get? - LMU Munich Robots that talk, write news reports and novels, algorithms that select personnel. How will machine learning change our world? – And what can it not do? We asked specialists in various disciplines for their views. Here are their responses.

Hello colleagues and friends in the Austin, TX area: You are cordially invited to a Science Talk on "Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries" with Dr. Julia A. Clarke on February 7, 2019 at the University of Texas, Austin (followed by a networking reception) to kick off the Deutschland Ambassadors Initiative, a series of events during Deutschlandjahr Wunderbar Together.
To learn more and to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deutschlandjahr-alumni-initiative-austin-tickets-54840321879

Looking for PhD opportunities in Berlin? Then, the doctoral program at the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (BGTS) might fit your interests. Embedded in the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS), the program focuses on contemporary controversies about the liberal order from a historical, global and comparative perspective. It connects the academic expertise in the social sciences and area studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and five other Berlin-based research institutions.
The deadline for applications is January 31, 2019.
Please find more information here: http://www.transnationalstudies.eu/news/CfA_2019_BGTS.html
Photo Credit: Vanessa Alessi, Image Credits:https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/excellence-strategy/proposals/scripts/bildquellen-collage-scripts.pdf

Hot off the press - our last newsletter in 2018! Thanks so much for your continued interest in Freie Universität Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. We look forward seeing you at one of our holiday or new year's events if you are in the area and working with you in 2019. Have a wonderful holiday season 🌠💝 ▶️ https://bit.ly/2PbSdN8

Freie Universität Berlin and Dahlem Humanities Center are hosting an event on the timely topic "Free Speech on Campus. A Challenge for Universities in the U.S. and in Germany" with R. Jay Wallace from UC Berkeley and Paul Nolte, moderated by Jessica Gienow-Hecht both from Freie Universität Berlin. You can follow the conversation via livestream from wherever you are: Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 10:15 AM EST (16:15 Uhr MEZ). If you are in Berlin, please register now 📌 [email protected].

In recent years, the issue of free speech has returned to campuses in unexpected ways. Initially tied to the right to political activity on campus, free speech nowadays is often a contested concept in the quest for diverse and respectful learning environments. How should one prevent hate speech on campus without restricting free speech? And how should one protect free inquiry and academic freedom in an increasingly polarized political environment?

Join us on Wednesday, November 7, 9am-1pm (EST), if you are interested in grad school and doing research in Germany. Register for the virtual to learn more about graduate studies and research careers in Germany! Freie Universität Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and many more will be participating.
This is a joint initiative by Research in Germany and Science Careers. Register here => https://www.research-in-germany.org/events/rig-events/2018-11-07__Research_in_Germany__at_the_Science_Online_Career_Fair

Back in the Big Apple after abroad? And now your are ready for more international adventures and challenges?Meet us on Sunday to learn about opportunities at Freie Universität Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. See more infos here: https://nybackfromabroad.wixsite.com/nymsag

Back from abroad? Join us to discover all of the doors now open to you - for graduate school in another country, international careers, and more! Next Sunday 10/21 at FIT.

Register here: https://nybackfromabroad.wixsite.com/nymsag/registration