100 Years of Women in Higher Education in Berlin and Prussia
Women were first granted admission to Prussian Universities, including to the Royal Friedrich Wilhelm University (FWU, today the HU), in 1908. In 2008, we took the 100th anniversary of women’s entrance into the university system as an opportunity to examine and celebrate the history of women in Prussian higher education.
In November 2009 the ZtG organized a film series and a colloquium on women at Humboldt University. In October 2009, the ZtG, together with the afg, organized a university-wide celebration of 100 years of women at HU, which took place in Berlin's city hall, the Rotes Rathaus.
Some of the results of the discussions we had over the course of the anniversary have been collected and published in the book The Gender of Knowledge: on the History of Women-Scholars in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Ulrike Auga, Claudia Bruns, Levke Harders and Gabriele Jähnert (Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/New York, 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39148-9).