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Prof. Doff has been Dean of Faculty 10 since October. In this interview, she talks about her motivation, educational equality and her plans for the coming years.

The next annual conference of the Society for Name Research (GfN) will take place from 28 to 30 September 2026 at the University of Bremen. The conference is being organised by Barbara Aehnlich, Andreas Jäger, Anna Mattfeldt and Andreas Rothenhöfer.

On 21 October 2025, an exhibition entitled ‘Wat claghe kumt vor richte’ – meaning ‘What lawsuit is coming before the court?’ – opened at the State and University Library in Bremen.

Worlds of Contradiction is awarding its visiting professorship again this year and welcomes historian and cultural scientist Onur Erdur as the second WOC visiting professor in November. His two-week stay at the University of Bremen also marks the tenth anniversary of WOC.

The first edition of the ‘Zukunftsmesse Nord’ was a complete success: the lecture hall was full, crowds gathered at the stands, and information sessions on topics such as ‘Writing job applications in French’ and ‘Study opportunities in France’ were well attended.

Anyone who has attended a medieval studies seminar in the last few semesters is sure to have met her: Ms Krause - always present, attentive, committed. As a guest student, she accompanied many of us through our studies and was far more than just a silent listener.

Learning from good practice in order to promote educational equality - this is the guiding principle of a study by Sabine Doff, the most important results of which are now presented digitally and interactively in the ‘Unlock the Future’ exhibition at various locations in Bremen and Bremerhaven.

How is a dictionary created? What does the Old High German dictionary reveal about our language and culture? Students from Bremen University learnt this and more during a workshop at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

In her inaugural lecture on 30 April 2025, Professor Dr Anja Becker presented the medieval chivalric novel "Wigalois" in the rotunda of the Cartesium and ended, surprisingly, with a treasure hunt in the Bremen State and University Library.

This year's CHE ranking also emphasises the strengths of Faculty 10. In German Studies, it is the good support at the beginning of the degree programme. In Romance Studies, the University of Bremen has a particularly high number of doctorates per professor.

On 5 September 2025, Romance Studies invites students interested in studying at upper secondary level from Bremen and Lower Saxony to a diverse theme day in room GW2 B3009. Registration is possible from 01.05.25.

In a practical seminar, students of Faculty 10 had the opportunity to look over the shoulders of media professionals and contribute to the department's website. A continuation is planned for the winter semester 2025/2026.

The three-day annual conference of the ‘Gesellschaft für Namenforschung e.V. (GfN)’ took place in Uppsala in April 2025 under the title ‘Names in Context’. Three students were also given the opportunity to take part in the conference at the Institutet för språk och folkminnen by presenting posters.

Is your degree programme too theoretical for you? Would you like to get to know a different side of academia, present your own research findings at a conference, publish a paper, get to grips with queer studies and make international contacts?

Community over Commercialisation – this was the motto of the Open Access Week held at the State and University Library of Bremen last October. Anja Becker, Professor of Medieval German Studies, also took part in a panel discussion on the future of Diamond Open Access.

At the meeting of the Bremen Senate on 4 February 2025, Lucia Werder, Director of Bremen City Library, literary critic Dr Wiebke Porombka and university professor Dr Karen Struve were appointed as the new Board of Directors of the Rudolf Alexander Schröder Foundation until February 2030.

Erstmalig wird im Wintersemers 2024/2025 ein neues Lehrangebot geschaffen, das Studierenden die Möglichkeit bietet, Kompetenzen im journalistischen Schreiben und Content-Management zu erwerben, an Inhalten der FB10-Homepage mitzuarbeiten und Kontakte zu professionellen Medienschaffenden zu knüpfen.