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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...

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...

Would you like to promote your students' writing skills - with or without AI - without having to do any extra proofreading yourself? Then apply for the TextTutor:innen program in the winter semester 2025/26: Trained TextTutors will support your students by providing professional feedback on short texts already written...

At the start of the summer semester 2025, the Vice Dean for Studies and Teaching, Prof. Dr. Christoph Dartmann, addresses the faculty's teaching staff with two topics that will keep us busy in the coming weeks and wishes everyone a good start to the new semester.

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: music psychologist Prof. Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen