The Dahlem Konferenzen were a series of high-level workshops in Berlin that ran from 1974 to 2012. They were initiated by a German scholar, Silke Bernhard. They resulted in books and reports that spanned the sciences, and latterly included the humanities and social sciences. The structure of the workshops, called the 'Dahlem workshop model', has been applied more widely. The name comes from the Berlin suburb of Dahlem, where the Free University of Berlin (latterly a conference sponsor), several Max Planck Institutes, scientific federal institutes, and museums are located.