text collections. The Open Text Collections platform will produce at least 10 text collections during the three-year funding period. After the funding period, the platform will continue the publication in [...] project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Its goal is the creation and publication of text collections. The project “Open Text Collections” will create a publication platform for the publication [...] sustainable and optimal workflow starting from the selection, preparation and contextualization of the texts, through to peer review, and finally to publication. The texts will be available as HTML, PDF and

During the last decades, many ancient manuscripts of the Qurʾān have caught the attention of scholars and the larger public. Among them are a few palimpsests, manuscripts whose original text had been deleted to reuse the writing surface and produce new artefacts.

Where are we on banking reform? Where do we stand, five years on from the start of the crisis, on progress towards banking reform? Major advances have been made, but a lot of unfinished business remains, notably on structural reform of banks. Sir John Vickers, Fellow of the British Academy, will talk about important issues regarding the role of governments in this crisis.

The Omani electronic edition of the Qur'an was launched in 2017 by the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman. This digital edition takes into account calligraphic legacy of Arabic with its complicated orthography and elaborate script rules. For this official edition of the Sultanate of Oman, new computer typography had to be invented. Verses of the Qur'an are displayed with a computer model of the Ottoman writing style (naskh style). The challenge was to reconcile its delicate script grammar with orthography of the Qur'an printed in 1924. In this regard the digital edition of the Omani Qur'an is a master piece combining calligraphy and precise digital structure.

Ever since the animal turn in literary studies, their central role as carriers of meaning in literature has been recognized and intensively researched. The project examines animal narratives in Greek and Latin hagiographic texts from Late Antiquity to the early 7th century.

groups. The ‘Schülerlabor Geisteswissenschaften’ (Humanities Lab for School Students) and the ‘GeistesWERKstatt’ (Humanities Workshop) communicate the rich variety of the humanities today. In the ‘Schülerlabor [...] format that was created at the Academy – school students in the senior years of secondary school can try out topics and methods from the humanities in a practical way. During the ‘GeistesWERKstatt’, an annual [...] . In the ‘Academy Lectures in Brandenburg Schools’ members and staff of the Academy visit schools in Brandenburg and present their current research. Together with the Freie Universität Berlin the Academy

Humanities-Colloquium Since 2017, the DH Colloquium has been held at the BBAW, usually on the first Friday of the month from 5 to 7 pm, in order to further intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue in Digital [...] Humanities - from the perspective of Mathematics and Computer Science Watch the video on the L.I.S.A.-portal (in German) Lecture series Digital Humanities: The digital transformation of the Humanities Go to [...] Humanities News The BBAW is constantly involved in the field of Digital Humanities through events, publications, lectures and cooperations at the national and international levels. to the news-page (in german)

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.

DARIAH-EU, the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW), Inria (Paris, France) and the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH, Serbia), are co-organizing, with the support of the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), CLARIN, DARIAH-DE and the EU H2020 project Humanities at Scale (HaS), a masterclass on the management of lexical data, which will take place in Berlin at the BBAW from 4 to 8 December 2017. The Lexical Data Masterclass is bringing together 20 trainees together with experts to share experiences, methods and techniques for the creation, management and use of digital lexical data. This masterclass is part of a joint French-German program supported by the BMBF and MESRI (French Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation).

The Virchow Foundation announced the appointment of Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christoph Markschies as its new Foundation President, effective March 1, 2025. Professor Markschies succeeds Professor Dr. Gerald H. Haug, who has held the position since the Foundation's inception. Both internationally leading academics belong to the group of the five Co-Founders of the Virchow Foundation.