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HeatFuture Lab: How will heat change our everyday lives, our health and the medicine of the future?

What will a hot summer feel like in the future? And how can cities, healthcare and we ourselves cope better with heat? Questions like these are the focus of the HeatFuture Lab Thuringia, which the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour at the…

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New virtual lecture series: Contemporary witness / Images of history / Power of interpretation

Contemporary witness / Images of history / Power of interpretation. (How) is AI changing our understanding of the past? – is the title of a new virtual lecture series organised by the Professorship for Digital Humanities and Hybrid Education and…

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Male friendship, loyalty and work at Perthes publishing house around 1900

The Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt invites you to another public lecture in the series "Perthes in Conversation" on Wednesday, 17 June. This time, under the title „'Hermann Wagner ist mein einziger Freund' – Männerfreundschaft,…

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Max Weber Prize for Young Researchers 2026 announced

The Max Weber Centre for Cultural and Social Science Studies at the University of Erfurt invites applications for the Max Weber Prize for Young Researchers. This prize is intended to honour outstanding work by an early-stage researcher within the…

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Distinguished Fellowships at the Max-Weber-Kolleg

The Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt is offering Distinguished Fellowships for the academic year 2027/28. They are awarded for three to ten months, start on 1 October 2027 or 1 April 2028 and end on 31 July 2028 at the latest.…

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New online format: "Find funding providers. Utilise opportunities. Understand applications."

Under the title "Frag FGF | Fördermittelgeber finden. Chancen nutzen. Anträge verstehen." (Ask our Research and Graduate Services department | Find funding providers. Utilise opportunities. Understanding applications.) the Research and Graduate…

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Welcome, Professor Marion Spengler!

Why does personality change – and when does it not? What constitutes socio-emotional competence and how can it be measured and trained? Professor Dr Marion Spengler gets to the bottom of these scientific questions. She took up the professorship for…

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Keeping spaces for discourse open at universities

How can universities remain places of open academic exchange? In light of increasing attacks on academic freedom and university autonomy, the University of Erfurt is hosting a public discussion event on Monday, 2 June 2026 entitled "(Diskurs)Räume an…

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