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Belgian Author Lize Spit Awarded Samuel Fischer Visiting Professorship at Freie Universität Berlin

Inaugural lecture on plot as a form of spatial awareness will be held at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, 2026

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How Sensitive Are the Computers of the Future?

A team of international researchers recently published a study in Nature Physics exploring the precise limitations of fault-tolerant quantum computing.

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New Research Project on African American Thought and the German Colonial Imagination

Transatlantic project based at Freie Universität Berlin will explore contested geographies of race, empire, and freedom.

Image Credit: Freie Universität Berlin, Universitäts-Archiv, NL Lorde, Sig. 176 | Dagmar Schultz.

When Ottoman-Era Bureaucratic Records Train Machines to Read

An international research team will digitize the Ottoman Turkish documents at Mount Athos. They hope to create the first tool to automatically transcribe handwritten Ottoman Turkish.

Image Credit: Richard Wittmann

Astrophysicist Heike Rauer Awarded the Caroline Herschel Medal

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“A code of conduct becomes effective when it is reflected in the behavior of the leadership.” Interview Series on Freie Universität’s Code of Conduct – Part 3: Sonja Schneller and Rudolf Kerschreiter

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