In "My Russian Adventure", journalist Jens Mühling tells how he travelled to a hermit in the taiga. And the strange stories he encounters along the way. Mühling will be reading in the university library hall on 20 November. We spoke to him in advance.

Can common molecular principles be derived from sensory processes such as vision, smell, hearing or magnetoreception in birds? These are fundamental questions that the "Molecular basis of sensory biology" research training group will address in future.

A change towards a more sustainable society is also necessary in Germany. This is the opinion of the organisers of the student sustainability event NachDenkstatt. An interview with Mela Determann and Achim Hagen from the organising team.

For three years, the pilot project "Open University", led by Prof Dr Anke Hanft, focused on the question of how to make it easier for working people to study. The project presented the results at a final conference.

Prof Dr Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer, professor of "Music and Media" at the university, has been appointed president of the newly founded German-speaking branch of the "International Association for the Study of Popular Music" (IASPM).

Following the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities (3GO) Doctoral Candidates' Day, the Graduate Academy invites you to a reception on Wednesday, 7 November at 6.00 pm (Haarentor Campus, Aula A11).

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).

13 productions in one week. Five exclusive workshops. From 26 November to 2 December, the Oldenburg State Theatre invites students to the first TheatreCampus. It demands: "'More drama'" - in student life too".

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.

He is one of the most renowned German comic artists: Flix - real name Felix Görmann - will be presenting his comics in two lectures at the university: The lectures are part of the Poetics Lectures, which this year focus on the connection between comics and literature at the centre.

"European bailouts and democracy - parliaments without power?" - This question will be the subject of a lecture by Prof. Dr Johann Kannankulam, Professor of Political Economy and European Integration at the University of Marburg, on Wednesday 24 October at 6.30 pm at the university.

Scan it with your mobile phone and off you go: QR codes can also be used as a virtual tour across the campus. A student project group from the "Social Web for Poets" professionalisation module has now put together the tour.

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.