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29 Jan 2026
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Blog series on life and writing in (Berlin) exile and Belarusian traces between the present and the past

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27 Jan 2026
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Job advertisement: Management of the Humanities Centers Berlin (GWZ e.V.)

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19 Jan 2026
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Presentation of Research Group 1 “Documentary Evidence” of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past”

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19 Jan 2026

New on the ZfL BLOG: Katrin Trüstedt on advocacy on the theatre stage

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19 Jan 2026
Deadline: 25 Feb 2026

CURE Summer School 2026: Beyond Division

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15 Jan 2026
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New episode of “Bücher im Gespräch”: Ivana Perica and Aurore Peyroles discuss their books on the relationship between literature and politics on the periphery

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13 Jan 2026
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Job advertisement: Student assistant (all genders) in the program area History of Theory

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08 Jan 2026

New on the ZfL BLOG: Claude Haas on a new publication on world philology

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18 Dec 2025

New on the ZfL BLOG: Matthias Schwartz on Ukrainian bestselling author Illarion Pavliuk

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17 Dec 2025
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New in the video collection: Panel discussion and restitution of books to the heirs of Henry Torrès

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15 Dec 2025

Call for Papers: Performing Imagined Communities on Stage: On the Revival of Popular Music and Comedy in East-Central and Eastern Europe

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10 Dec 2025

New in the media center: Pictures of the book presentation “Postdigital, ästhetisch, kooperativ: Der nächste Text” with Hanna Hamel and Philipp Schönthaler

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