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Dialogue with the public

The Humboldt Residency Programme not only brings together a group of experts but puts them in contact with actors in politics, civil society and academia during the residency – to share information and trigger new perspectives.

One particular focus of this year’s programme was dialogue with political Berlin and research funding organisations: off-the-record conversations with the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development as well as representatives of the German Rectors’ Conference and the German Academic Exchange Service filled up the participants’ diaries. They offered scope for testing the recommendations for action on international research funding that they had drawn up in the policy paper. 

Menschen sitzen an Tischen, die zu einem großen Viereck aufgestellt sind, und diskutieren gemeinsam.
During their residency phase in Berlin, the participants of the Humboldt Residency Programme 2024 met for background discussions with representatives of the Federal Foreign Office, among others.
Five people with name tags at a table in a round table discussion
The 2024 Residency Cohort in dialogue with representatives of the Federal Foreign Office
Gruppenfoto von Menschen auf einer Treppe vor dem Auswärtigen Amt
The residency cohort with representatives of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin
Selfie von mehreren Teilnehmenden bei einer Stadtführung.
Decolonial guided tour of the African Quarter in Berlin-Wedding
The Humboldt Residency cohort 2024 cooks for the Community Kitchen at Kiezhaus Agnes Reinhold.
Eine Gruppe von Menschen vor dem Eingang eines Hauses
The Humboldt Residency participants met for a joint cookery evening in the Kiezhaus Agnes Reinhold in Berlin.
Ein Mann mit einem Mikrofon hin der Hand spricht zu Menschen, die in einem Pub sitzen. Im Hintergrund hängt ein Bildschirm, auf dem ein Text zu sehen ist.
Humboldt Residency participant Matt Fitzpatrick moderates a decolonial pub quiz.
The 2024 Residency Cohort at the decolonial pub quiz

Berlin-Wedding, the cohort’s domicile during the residency, provided an opportunity for the international participants to get together with Berliners and shine a spotlight on local, post-colonial discourse during a joint cookery evening in the Kiezhaus Agnes Reinhold, a meeting with the “Each One Teach One” club and a decolonial guided tour of the African Quarter.

One special highlight was a decolonial pub quiz: the Residency participant, Matthew Fitzpatrick, swapped the archive and lecture theatre for a Berlin pub to present his research as an historian and professor of international history in an entertaining way. The contest for a bottle of whisky was fuelled by questions such as, “Which country was the last colonial power in today’s Papua New Guinea?”