Freie Universität Berlin attracts prominent visitors from around the world. Influential personalities visit our campus through several venues, such as the Freedom Award of Freie Universität Berlin, the Hegel Lecture, or the conferral of honorary doctorates. Here we highlight just a few of our more recent visitors.
Nobel laureate in literature, Herta Müller, was the featured speaker at Freie Universität’s 70th anniversary celebration.
Read MoreAt the first Kim Dae Jung Lecture at Free University, former South Korean Prime Minister Han Myeong-Sook spoke about the peace process on the Korean peninsula.
Read MoreEconomist Dilma Rousseff, a former President of Brazil, shared her expertise at Freie Universität.
Read MoreAt Freie Universität German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with students and researchers who came to Berlin as refugees.
Read MoreIn this year's Szondi Lecture, Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk talked about the Museum of Innocence.
Read MoreThe Chinese Vice Prime Minister Liu Yandong visited Freie Universität in November 2016.
Read MoreThe French writer and philosopher Hélène Cixous held the 2016 Hegel Lecture at Freie Universität.
Read MoreGerman Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was a guest at Freie Universität to mark the 70th anniversary of the formation of the United Nations.
Read MoreThe highly regarded American historian and literary scholar Professor Hayden White was granted an honorary doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin.
Read MorePhysicist Wolfgang Junge was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Department of Physics at Freie Universität Berlin.
Read MoreProfessor Carolyn Bertozzi from the University of California at Berkeley was awarded an honorary doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin.
Read MoreThe lawyer, former chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, and campaigner for justice Carla Del Ponte was awarded a Freedom Award from Freie Universität.
Read MoreThe Henry Ford Building was filled to the last seat as Stanford professor Thomas Südhof gave an entertaining and personal presentation retracing his way to the Nobel Prize.
Read MoreIn her inaugural lecture as the first International Network Visiting Professor of Gender Studies, Schild addressed the issue of emancipation under conditions of neoliberal capitalism.
Read MoreConductor, pianist, and music director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin: Daniel Barenboim is one of the best known musicians of our time.
Read MoreRecently at Freie Universität Michael J. Sandel addressed the issue "What Money Can't Buy."
Read MoreNancy Fraser, one of the world’s most influential intellectuals of our time, is an Einstein Visiting Fellow at Freie Universität’s Graduate School of North American Studies.
Read MoreProfessor George M. Whitesides from Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin.
Read MoreProfessor Edward Zajac from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago was awarded an honorary doctorate from Freie Universitat Berlin.
Read MoreThe literary scholar and cultural theorist Homi K. Bhabha was awarded an honorary doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin.
Read MoreA recent guest lecture on "The Failure of Crisis Management," given by Princeton economist Paul Krugman, attracted a large audience.
Read MoreThe former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Irish President was honored with the Freedom Award of Freie Universität.
Read MoreMore than 2000 guests crowded into the Max Kade Auditorium and several lecture halls to hear Judith Butler, one of the most influential social scientists of the present, speak on "Frames of War."
Read MoreThe Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek enthusiastically addressed the issue "Is it Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today?"
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