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Ad. E. Jensen Memorial Lecture
The Frobenius Institute is pleased to welcome anthropologist Anne Meneley for this year’s Ad. E. Jensen Memorial Lecture. Under the title How to Do Things with Plants: Easy and Uneasy Collaborations with Plants, the lecture series explores the complex relationships between humans, plants, and political landscapes.
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Summer Symposium 2026
The Frobenius Institute is delighted to invite you to Frankfurt am Main on 11 and 12 June 2026 for its 8th Summer Symposium. The time is fast approaching: Master’s students and early-career researchers in social and cultural anthropology will come together to discuss current research projects, ethnographic work and new perspectives.
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Congratulations to PD Dr. Katja Geisenhainer on being awarded the venia legendi
We warmly congratulate our colleague and expert in the history of the discipline, Dr. Katja Geisenhainer, on being awarded the venia legendi in ethnology!
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We congratulate Dr. Maike Melles on receiving the 2026 Wilhelm Bender Dissertation Award
The 2026 Wilhelm Bender Dissertation Prize, worth 5,000 euros, is being awarded to our former doctoral candidate, Dr. Maike Melles, in recognition of her outstanding dissertation titled “Landscape as a Resource: Reinventing Heritage in the Spanish Dehesa” and her significant contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
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Booklet Summer Symposium 2026
The programme booklet for this year's Summer Symposium is now available here. -
The Frobenius Institute at PARC
The digital collections of the library, the image archive, and the legacy archive can now also be searched via the “Portal for Africa Research Collections” (PARC) in Basel. -
The "Reclaiming Narrative" project is online!
The project "Reclaiming Narrative: Exploring Ethnographic Film Archives as a site for Transformative Agency and Cosmopolitics through Film Restitution and Found Footage Film Production" is online. Link to the project page
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