Academics from the School of Human Sciences at our partner university, Nelson Mandela University in Qqeberha, South Africa, are visiting School IV. The visit aims to strengthen co-operation in areas such as the digital humanities. The visit is being hosted by the Prize Papers Academy project in collaboration with the DiViAS and…

During a graduation ceremony, School IV - School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Oldenburg bid farewell to 2,026 graduates.

The "Sports Research and Training Centre" building houses a seminar room where no one has to sit still. 

This year’s series of events at the Leo Trepp Educational Centre explores Judaism as a living civilisation and the cradle of a diverse culture

On Wednesday, 28 January 2026, School IV’s 3rd Research Day took place at the Karl Jaspers House.

47th Annual Conference of the Commission on Sports Education of the German Society for Educational Research at Oldenburg Castle

Prof. Dr Benedikt Hensel is co-director of Israel's currently largest archaeological excavation in the ancient megacity of Hazor (Israel). Twenty UOL students are also accompanying him there this year.

The WiZeGG analyses in an interdisciplinary manner how modernity is constituted as an epoch in the mode of social self-observation and problematisation in contrast to other epochs.

How was reality imagined in "heroic modernity" in order to be able to intervene afterwards? How were social policy, housing construction or nationalism in Europe stimulated by images?

Can an entire society be controlled with cybernetics and prognostics? What did the brave new world of communism of the Soviet futurologists look like? And was there any criticism of the seemingly limitless progress?

Prof Dr Jörg Schorer, Prof Dr Dirk Büsch, PD Dr Florian Loffing and Kim Huesmann in co-operation with the German Handball Federation

Federal Ministry of Education and Research presents Prize Papers Academy project as project of the month

Intoxicants arrived in Europe as "new intoxicants" in the course of early modern globalisation. They provoked controversy, changed socialising practices and created new spaces for consumption.

New teaching and learning lab format for biblical archaeology, ancient everyday culture, theology and virtual reality

Digital and analogue games with a historical setting are no longer just a fixed part of popular culture, but an essential part of our culture of history and remembrance

In the course of the turbulent summer semester 2020, podcasts on the texts to be read were created in the seminar "History and Theory of the Museum" of the Master's programme Museum and Exhibition.

The humanities student laboratory Villa GeistReich at School IV is research-oriented.
It is part of the university's ^FLIF+ (research-based teaching plus) project and is funded by the BMBF. The focus is on independent work on research topics by school classes or small teams with largely flexible time management.

Prof Dr Jörg Schorer, PD Dr Florian Loffing, Kim Huesmann (Institute of Sport Science), Prof Dr Dietmar Grube, Dr Ingo Roden (Institute of Educational Sciences)

Where exactly do people look when they visit a church? To investigate this question, theology students have developed a research project on church spaces. They used the eye-tracking method for this.

The students travelled to the National Archives, London, where they worked with original sources from the Prize Papers under the guidance of the archivists and the seminar leader.