About the Faculty

After successfully completing the tenure track evaluation process after six years as a junior professor, Prof. Dr. Elsa Clavé is now W2 Professor of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia (Austronesian Studies) at the Asia-Africa Institute since July 2025. In this interview, she explains how she has benefited from the...

The conversion of the former command post and bunker on Heiligengeistfeld has created a sensation. The New York Times, for instance, named Hamburg one of 52 places to go in 2025 when the green bunker kicked off. University of Hamburg students are now creating visitor information videos. Historian Prof. Dr. Birthe Kundrus...

The Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia, in collaboration with the Hamburg Society for Thai Studies (HGT), is organizing Thai Day 2025: an all-day cultural event under the motto “Threads of Time: Preserving and Shaping Thai Fashion” to be held at the Asia-Africa Institute on Saturday, 14 June 2025, from...

On June 4, 2025, the Faculty of Humanities hosted a workshop on sustainability. The event focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goal “Quality Education” (SDG 4), which was the most frequently mentioned goal in a faculty-wide survey of sustainability initiatives. Lecturers, students, and external participants discussed...

Funded by the European Union Doctoral Networks enables early career researchers to do research within a university consortium and learn from experts from all over Europe. So far, 5 of these networks have been coordinated at the University of Hamburg. At the start of the current call for applications, 2 participants and 2...

The University of Hamburg was extremely successful in the framework of the Excellence Strategy, securing funding for the 4 existing clusters of excellence in the next funding round from January 2026. The University has thus consolidated its top position among the leading group of German research universities. With this...