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  • Lecture series "Musica/Cultura/Sociologia"

    Nikolai Okunew
    "Sind eben nur für Musik da." Heavy-Metal-Fans in der DDR

    23 June 2025, DHI Rome, 17.30–19.00

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Important notice: Our library will be closed on 19 June (Corpus Christi).   

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We are pleased about your interest in our institute, stay in touch with us! Our newsletter provides you with information on upcoming events, applications, new research projects and recent publications of the DHI Rome.  Here you can read the current edition (German)  ...   

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The label "border" can encompass a wide range of phenomena: geographical limits, political boundaries, areas under military control, and porous zones of interaction. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, viewing the border space as a place of contact and contrast, an area of both peaceful and violent exchange, of mobility of ideas and people, a structural element deployed by social actors to organise or  ...   

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This year we are retro-digitising volumes 1 (1898) to 37 (1957) of our journal "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken". We are endeavouring to inform the authors or their legal successors also in this way via our Institute website and to draw attention to possibilities of objection. Here you can find  ...   

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