Many legal issues, for example the question of property, are regulated differently in different societies. Prof. Dr. Jonas Bens, Heisenberg Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Studies in Culture and Arts at the University of Hamburg, is investigating the conflicts that arise from such normative pluralism.

How do video games and TV series portray the Christian religion? Three students at the University of Hamburg are researching exactly that, and traveling to the world’s leading computer game trade fair in Cologne to investigate. This is one of 9 student research groups funding by Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence...

Various laws promote the participation and inclusion of people with disabilities. However, particularly in the case of people with complex impairments, this is hardly ever achieved. In the IMPAK study, Prof. Dr. Iris Beck and Prof. Dr. Daniel Franz examined the conditions that enable individual freedom of action.

Over 30 concerts, presentations, and interactive experiments: On 18–19 July 2025, the expanses of the Hamburg Observatory in Bergedorf will transform for the third time into a stage for music and astronomy.