Research Day 2026

On the Research Day of the Faculty of Humanities on April 20, 2026, students and researchers from the Faculty of Humanities presented their current projects, exchanged ideas, discussed, and networked.

The Best Scientific Poster award went to the project “Tracing Labour in Islamicate Legal Traditions (TraIL).” Congratulations!

Program

When

What

Room

13:00

Opening remarks by Claus Beisbart, Dean of the Faculty, and Nicolas Detering, President of the Walter Benjamin Kolleg

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13:15

14:15

14:20

Poster session with 2-minute pitch

Vote for poster prize

Award ceremony Best Science Poster 2026

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14:30

 

14:50

 

15:10

 

Project Presentations
MA Victor Escalona: Global Bones: Entangled Histories, Transfers and Translations in the Early Modern Age 
MA Geeththana Egamparam: ALAO, KI oder traditionelle Methode? Die Effekte digitaler Lernformen auf Wortschatzerwerb und Motivation im Französisch als Fremdsprache
MA Nan Lynette LU: Gender Discrimination in Chinese Matchmaking Discourse

 

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15:30

Coffee

 F021

Poster session

Faculty award

We are happy to announce that the award for the best science poster of the 2026 Research Day of the Faculty of Humanities goes to  Siyan Ahmad, Jasmine Benhaida, Leonie Isch, Laila Makboul, Mohamed Ilyes Mechentel and Serena Tolino of project TraIL – Tracing Labour in Islamicate Legal Traditions.