Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC)

Spotlight Humanities

The platform Spotlight Humanities serves as a central point of orientation for current research projects and activities at Freie Universität Berlin. Its primary purpose is to present interdisciplinary and international events of collaborative research centers, research projects, graduate schools, and other institutions in the humanities.

In addition to its role in internal networking, Spotlight Humanities aims to inform external scholars about the wide range of activities at Freie Universität Berlin.

Ancient World

Image Credit: Panel withstriding Lion, Neo-Babylonian, 604-562 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Public Domain)

Digital Humanities

Image Credit: Simon Cockell: Random, scale-free network, Public Domain

European Relations: Greece, France, Italy

Image Credit: Juan Gris: Still Life with a Guitar, 1913, Metropolian Museum of Art, New York, Public Domain

Gender Relations

Image Credit: By Javier Pérez [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Society and Emotion

Image Credit: Ram met gouden halsband en versierde uiteinden van zijn horens, anonymous, 1700 – 1799, Rijksmuseum, Public Domain

Global Literatures

Image Credit: French or Flemish, Early 17th Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Public Domain

Middle Ages - Renaissance - Early Modern Period

Image Credit: Hieronymus Bosch: Der Garten der Lüste, Museo del Prado, via Wikimedia Commons

Politics and Society

Image Credit: Rubina Vock

Rhetoric

Image Credit: Jakob Bogdani, between 1660 and 1724 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Language and Society

Theater and Performance

Image Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Public Domain)

Transdisciplinary History of Knowledge

Image Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

Visual Culture

Image Credit: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Public Domain