Humboldt’s voices
What do you associate with Humboldt? Seriously, or in jest?
Scientifically, creatively, satirically or critically?
Be it the Humboldt Glacier in Greenland or Mount Humboldt in New
Zealand, the city of Humboldt, Tennessee, or the Colégio Humboldt in
S?o Paulo, the Humboldt Penguin or the Humboldt lily, Humboldt’s ideal
of education or the Humboldt grammar school in Berlin-Tegel – the
brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt represent education,
travelling and discovery as well as reform and progress.
To mark the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the
Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin in 2010, the International Office
invites international undergraduate and postgraduate students, and
undergraduate and postgraduate alumni, to let us know about their
impressions, experience and associations with regard to the brothers
Humboldt and Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin.
You may express yourself in any of the following media: essay, poetry,
video message, collage (with or without photos), photography,
sketching, painting or short film. Use your imagination!
Please submit your entry, postmarked, by 15th June 2009, to:
Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin
International Office
“Humboldt’s voices”
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Please note that Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin cannot refund the cost
of postage.
Along with your entry you will have to submit an agreement to the
terms and conditions and a declaration for the return of your entry
material.
All entries are eligible for the prize draw.
1st prize: 800 �
2nd prize: 500 �
3rd prize: 200 �
Furthermore, there will be 10 non-cash prizes from the Humboldt
Store’s anniversary collection.
The contributions will be presented – amongst other occasions – in a
slideshow during the inauguration ceremony of Humboldt-University’s
200th anniversary on 12th October 2009 at Berlin’s Konzerthaus on
Gendarmenmarkt. The International Office will also make the various
entries available on its website.
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Further Informations:
Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin
International Office
Ms. Nora Butter
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
Phone +49 (0)30 2093 2505
Fax +49 (0)30 2093 2780
E-mail: nora.butter.1(at)uv.hu-berlin.de