“I’d Rather Attend Lectures in the Afternoon Than Watch Netflix” – The Junior Studies Program attracts high school students from Berlin and Brandenburg to the University of Potsdam
Her schedule is full to the brim. That’s exactly how Maja-Jeanne Schmidt likes it. The 17-year-old attends the 11th grade in Oranienburg, is class …
Geoscientist Prof. Martin Trauth Answers the Question: What Does Climate Change Have to Do With the Pyramids in Egypt?
We are all familiar with pictures of the three great pyramids of Giza or have even been there and were impressed by their size. And, of course, we are …
Looking Beneath the Surface – Geophysicists and students from the University of Potsdam are searching for traces of a Jewish cemetery in Lenzen, Brandenburg
It is a summery September day in Lenzen, a small town on the Elbe river in the outer northwestern part of the state of Brandenburg, with a history of …
Between Hostility and Admiration – The Historian Matheus Hagedorny on Images of Islam among the New Right
In early 2024, hundreds of thousands of people across Germany took to the streets to protest against the far-right. This was in response to a meeting …
Cultures of Violence – Insights from work towards a systematic approach to military violence
Deportation, torture, and killing: How has the use of violence changed or even become radicalized in the armies of the great European powers? What has …
