Websites and Print Publications created in StuROPx
The research results of the X-Student Research Groups and X-Tutorials do not disappear into a drawer: they are documented on websites, as well as in brochures and zines, and shared with an interested public. On this page, you will find a selection of such online and small-edition print publications.
Screenshot from the digital exhibition platform
Image Credit: Madeline Zehnder
Virtual Exhibition: Shelf Secrets – Tracing Histories of Berlin University Library Books
The virtual exhibition “Shelf Secrets: Tracing Histories of Berlin University Library Books” presents the outcomes of a book history seminar led by Dr. Madeline Zehnder, in which students conducted in-depth investigations of selected volumes from the university library. The focus lies on material traces such as ownership marks, signs of use, and marginal notes, as well as the respective acquisition contexts. Drawing on this evidence, the students reconstructed the “biographies” of individual books and opened up new perspectives on the histories of knowledge, reading, and scholarly practice.
During the Night of hte Libraries on 4 April 2025, the students presented their findings in a poster exhibition, which is now available digitally as a virtual exhibition.
Further information on the X-Student Research Group:
Shelf Secrets: Tracing Histories of Berlin University Library Books, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Cover of the comic
Image Credit: Menne/Gershenson/Steer
Comic: Anna Lena Menne, Makēda Gershenson, Alissa Steer, “Echoes of Tomorrow: Discovering Digital Positionality with Orange and the Architects”, 2024
With Echoes of Tomorrow, the student research project “Digital Positionality” presents its findings in the form of a comic. The starting point is the question of how digital environments, social identities, societal power structures, and technological systems shape our experiences and opportunities in the digital age. Digital positionality is understood as a sensitizing concept: the comic weaves together personal experiences, social challenges, and digital realities into a visual narrative. Readers are invited to perceive their own position within the interconnected digital space—almost like a GPS for the digital world—and are encouraged to reflect on alternative, more just futures. The comic ‘Echoes of Tomorrow’ is published on the project website.
Further information on the X-Tutorial:
Digital Positionality: Designing a Qualitative Map toward Epistemic Justice from the Bottom Up, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Broschüre: „Schuld – Mitschuld – Unschuld. Die evangelische Kirche im Nationalsozialismus“, 2022
Image Credit: Johanna Groß
Victoria Klärner, Vera Klauser Soldá, Henrik Scholle: Schuld – Mitschuld – Unschuld. Die evangelische Kirche im Nationalsozialismus, brochure, 2022
The brochure “Schuld – Mitschuld – Unschuld. Die evangelische Kirche im Nationalsozialismus” brings together microhistorical insights into the lives of individuals recorded by the Kirchenbuchstelle Alt-Berlin and reflects on the role of the Berlin Protestant Church during National Socialism as well as its postwar memory culture. The publication was produced by students as part of the X-Student Research Group “Kirchliche Amtshilfe? The Kirchenbuchstelle Alt-Berlin and the Holocaust”, under the supervision of Dr. Philipp Dinkelaker, Johannes Kellner, and Dr. Johan Wagner. The brochure is published on the project website.
Further information on the X-Student Research Group:
Kirchliche Amtshilfe? The Kirchenbuchstelle Alt-Berlin and the Holocaust, Technische Universität Berlin
Landingpage of the platform youthdelegatesearch.org
Image Credit: Hettihewa/Schott
Platform “Youth Delegate Search”
The “Youth Delegate Search” platform makes, for the first time, all speeches delivered by Youth Delegates to the UN General Assembly (1982–2015) accessible in one place and available for systematic academic research. The platform emerged from the X-Student Research Group “Youth, Peace and Security – Analysing the Reception of Youth Delegates’ Speeches in the Law-Making of the UN Security Council”, led by Dr. Hannah Birkenkötter, Julian Hettihewa, and Felix Schott. The research group examined whether and how Youth Delegates’ speeches were taken up in the law-making of the UN Security Council, particularly in the context of Resolution 2250. The website youthdelegate.org provides a central resource for research and analysis on youth participation in international politics. It is continuously being further developed.
Further information on the X-Student Research Group:
Youth, Peace and Security – Rezeption der Reden der Jugenddelegierten in der Rechtsetzung des VN-Sicherheitsrats, Freie Universität Berlin
„collective word puzzle“ in the zine „Kulturarbeit transformieren“, p. 13-16
Image Credit: Carolina Brinkmann (et al.)
Zine: Brinkmann, Carolina (et al.): „Kulturarbeit transformieren“, 2024
Art and culture do not emerge in a vacuum: structures, institutions and many often invisible forms of work are what make artistic practice possible in the first place. While stages and screens frequently address social injustices and imagine more just futures, the everyday working realities behind the scenes often remain unseen – including administrative, technical, communicative and financial labour. The X-Tutorial „Kulturarbeit transformieren“, led by Carolina Brinkmann and Patrick Kohn, explored this discrepancy and asked how cultural work can be transformed in practice to become more just, sustainable and discrimination-sensitive. The result is the zine „Kulturarbeit transformieren – Kollektivität, Diskriminierungssensibilität, Nachhaltigkeit“.
Further information on the X-Tutorial:
Kulturarbeit transformieren. Kollektivität – Diskriminierungssensibilität – Nachhaltigkeit, Freie Universität Berlin