Woody Guthrie: The folk icon would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. For this reason, the workshop "The Myth of Woody Guthrie" will take place at the university on 4 and 5 November. Sarah Lee Guthrie, granddaughter of the great Guthrie, will give a concert in the library hall.

"Hearing for all" - this is the goal of the Hearing4all cluster of excellence. It was successful in this year's Excellence Initiative organised by the federal and state governments. The cluster has now been officially opened.

"Transculturality and music education - opportunities and challenges in research, cultural policy and music education practice" is the title of a recently published anthology by Oldenburg musicologists. The editors will present the book on Wednesday, 7 November at 4.00 pm in the Chamber Music Hall…

Making your work visible beyond your own Institute - the Doctoral Candidates' Day on Wednesday, 7 November, 9.30 am to 5.00 pm, offers this opportunity to all doctoral candidates in the social sciences and humanities subjects.

Current approaches and theories of gender studies are the subject of the series of lectures "Inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on gender studies. Gender and History(s) of Science" by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG).

ZenTra is the name of the new academic centre for transnational studies at the Universities of Oldenburg and Bremen. ZenTra Director Prof Dr Hans-Michael Trautwein explains what transnational processes are and why it is so important to research them.

The Leo Trepp-Lehrhaus and the University are continuing their joint series of lectures on "Rabbis in Oldenburg in the context of religion, politics and society" today at 7.30 pm in the Oldenburg Synagogue (Wilhelmstraße 17) with a lecture on "Jewish patriotism and the First World War" and a…

"'A more beautiful sociability than just the bourgeois one'. Hölderlin's view of politics in his time" - the public series of lectures on "Hölderlin" at the University of Tübingen begins with a lecture by Prof Dr Michael Franz, private lecturer at the University of Tübingen's Department of…

The European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS) is considered unique in Europe. Around 600 invited guests, including Lower Saxony's Minister President David McAllister, attended the opening ceremony in the Audimax at the University of Oldenburg.

The DFB's "50+1 rule" is controversial. It prevents investors from exerting too much influence on a football club. In the opinion of Dr Jan-Henric M. Punte, this does not make it any more legal. The lawyer analysed the rule in his doctoral thesis.

Interdisciplinary research into the ecosystems in coastal and shelf seas: With this goal in mind, the university founded the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) in 1987. Its scientists have long been travelling the world's oceans. The Institute is now celebrating its…

Teacher training, renewable energies, neurosciences: In future, the state of Lower Saxony will be funding three new doctoral programmes at the University of Oldenburg in these areas. This means 45 doctoral scholarships for doctoral candidates.

What role do the media and films play in the perception of African immigrants in Europe? This is the topic of the film series "Africa and Europe: Migration and Film" from 1 to 17 October at Cine K, Kulturetage cinema.

Prof. Dr Ingo Mose, geographer and regional scientist at the Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, has been awarded a Jean Monnet Professorship for "Europeanisation and Sustainable Spatial Development".

Science communication in Oldenburg city centre, with and for the people of the city and the wider region: this will take place at The Smart House Oldenburg in future, whether through talks, conferences or exhibitions.

The research team led by Oldenburg physicist and physician Birger Kollmeier has brought about a rethink in the entire hearing system industry. It has now been nominated as one of four teams for the prestigious German Future Prize 2012.

An international conference is being held at the University of Oldenburg from 20 to 22 September on the subject of peasant and middle-class elites in Europe between the 17th and 19th centuries.

The Schlaues Haus opens on 28 September: An interview with Dr Petra Buchholz, Managing Director of The Smart House Oldenburg gGmbH, about the aims of the facility, the building on Schlossplatz, initial events and the planned opening ceremony.

The Advisory Board of School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences met for the first time yesterday evening. All 16 members appointed by the Presidential Board were present to discuss its own rules of procedure and the examination and degree programme regulations for the new degree programme.

2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the posting of Luther's theses. Over the next five years, researchers from the "Freedom Space Reformation" project will be exploring the significance of the Reformation for the north-west region.