The Dahlem Humanities Center Lectures (DHCL) feature humanities scholars from various disciplines and career stages from Germany and abroad, who present and discuss their current research. The lectures are often held in cooperation with humanities institutions of Freie Universität, other German and international universities, non-university research institutes and cultural institutions.

Winter term 2024/25

• Juliane Vogel (November 12, 2024)
• David Gramling (November 26, 2024)
• Ludwig Eichinger (January 16, 2025)

Summer term 2024

• Ryan Cordell (May 15, 2024)
• Andrew Hui (June 11, 2024)
• Karen Leeder (July 10, 2024)

Winter term 2023/24

• Etienne Benson (February 6, 2024)
• Barbara Baert (January 11, 2024)

Summer term 2023

• Ittai Weinryb (May 24, 2023)
• Jerry Muller (May 4, 2023)

Winter term 2022/23

• Sandro Zanetti (January 11, 2023)
• Kathryn Rudy (November 22, 2022)

Summer term 2022

• David E. Wellbery (June 15, 2022)
  
• Aaron Mauro (June 7, 2022)
• Sabina Leonelli
  

Winter term 2021/22

• Premesh Lalu (January 12, 2022)
  
• Caspar Hirschi (November 4, 2021)
  

Summer term 2021

• Julika Griem (June 30, 2021)
• Oyeronke Oyewumi (June 16, 2021)
• Merve Emre (May 19, 2021)

Winter term 2020/21

• Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni (January 20, 2021)

Winter term 2019/20

• Elena Esposito (February 11, 2020)
• Suraiya Faroqhi (November 28, 2019)

Summer term 2019

• Jakob Vogel (July 8, 2019)
• Bissera V. Pentcheva (May 15, 2019)

Winter term 2018/19

• Bénédicte Savoy (January 10, 2019)
• Haun Saussy (November 12, 2018)

Summer term 2018

• Stephan Conermann (July 3, 2018)
• Susan Slyomovics (June 6, 2018)
• Timothy Hampton (May 17, 2018)
• Jonathan Culler (May 2, 2018)

Winter term 2017/18

• Wiebke Denecke (February 8, 2018)
• Ivan Jablonka (November 13, 2017)
• Cynthia M. Baker (October 17, 2017)

Summer term 2017

• Christof Rapp (Mai 17, 2017)
• Sa’diyya Shaikh (Mai 2, 2017)
• Henriette-Rika Benveniste (April 20, 2017)

Winter term 2016/17

• Beate Kellner (February 9, 2017)
• Alva Noë (December 14, 2016)
• Roderick Beaton (December 1, 2016)
• Gregory R. Crane (November 16, 2016)

Summer term 2016

• Whitney Davis (April 27, 2016)

Winter term 2015/2016

• Mladen Dolar (February 3, 2016)
• Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (December 9, 2015)
• Evgeny Kazartsev (November 24, 2015)
• Philippe Descola (November 10, 2015)
• Henry Laurens (October 20, 2015)
• Anouar Majid (October 13, 2015)

Summer term 2015

• Hsiung Ping-chen (June 30, 2015)
• David Biale (June 23, 2015)
• Leonardo F. Lisi (June 17, 2015)
• Chung Ling (June 8, 2015)
• Eberhard Kienle (June 3, 2015)
• Daniel Poch (May 20, 2015)
• Ramón Saldívar (April 16, 2015)

Winter term 2014/15

• Ruth Fine (February 3, 2015)
• Richard Hunter (January 29, 2015)
• Zygmunt Baranski (December 17, 2014)
• Gérard Lenclud (October 15, 2014)

Summer term 2014

• Marilynn Desmond (June 25, 2014)
• Dorothea von Mücke (June 23, 2014)
• Robert B. Pippin (June 18, 2014)
• Josiah Blackmore (May 19, 2014)
• Ludwig Jäger (April 29, 2014)

Winter term 2013/14

• Aron Rodrigue (February 6, 2014)
• Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan (January 7, 2014)
• Judith Pollmann (November 7, 2013)

Summer term 2013

• Henry Rousso (July 3, 2013)
• Yfaat Weiss (June 27, 2013)
• Jacques Neefs (June 25, 2013)
• Maurice Olender (June 19, 2013)
• Stephen Greenblatt (May 27, 2013)
• Marina S. Brownlee (May 23, 2013)

Winter term 2012/13

• Tariq Modood (December 13, 2012)
• Heinrich Meier (December 6, 2012)
• Katharina Mommsen (October 23, 2012)
• Dan Diner (October 19, 2012)

Summer term 2012

• Rustom Bharucha (June 12, 2012)
• Michael Lackner (June 7, 2012)
• François Weil (May 9, 2012)

Winter term 2011/12

• Christoph Schmidt (February 14, 2012)
• Otfried Höffe (February 9, 2012)
• Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (II) (October 26, 2011)
• Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (I) (October 24, 2011)
• Tze-wan Kwan (October 18, 2011)

Summer term 2011

• SUN Zhouxing (July 11, 2011)
• Wolfgang Frühwald (July 5, 2011)
• Bhagat Oinam (July 4, 2011)
• Laurence K.P. Wong (June 28, 2011)
• CHEUNG Chan-fai (June 22, 2011)
• William B. Worthen (June 8, 2011)
• Nicholas B. Dirks  (May 26, 2011)

Winter term 2010/11

• Benjamin Stora (February 15, 2011)
• Carlo Ginzburg (February 10, 2011)
• Cesare Segre (December 2, 2010)
• Dan Miron (November 9, 2010)
• Stephen G. Nichols (October 26, 2010)
• Mona Ozouf (October 21, 2010)

Summer term 2010

• Danièle Cohn (June 30, 2010)
• Daniel C. Dennett (June 23, 2010)
• Martin Puchner (June 3, 2010)
• Marina Brownlee (May 27, 2010)
• Khalid Amine (May 5, 2010)

Winter term 2009/10

• Claudio Magris (January 19, 2010)
• Jean-Marie Schaeffer (December 8, 2009)
• Earl Jeffrey Richards and Danielle Buschinger (November 11, 2009)
• Dan Miron (October 20, 2009)

Summer term 2009

• Elisabeth Strowick (June 30, 2009)
• Enzo Traverso (June 25, 2009)
• David Wellbery (June 2, 2009)
• Tomi Suzuki and Haruo Shirane (May 28, 2009)

Winter term 2008/09

• Khalid Amine (December 10, 2008)
• Flora Süssekind (December 2, 2008)
• Jiang Aihong (November 14, 2008)

Summer term 2008

• William Egginton (June 24, 2008)
• Jack I. Abecassis (June 3, 2008)
• Juan Goytisolo (May 22, 2008)