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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

Masterclass with Anne Meneley (Trent University)

On February 9, Mireia Alcantara Rodriguez, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, and Jorge C. Llopis from the Autonomous University of Barcelona visited us.

Utkal University organized a two days seminar and screening of special film on “Crops of Life: Cereal Cultures in the Highlands of Odisha, India” on 6th and 7th February 2026 at G9, CII Building, Utkal University and Department of Anthropology, Utkal University.

It is with dismay and sadness that the Frobenius Institute bids farewell to Peter Steigerwald, who managed and shaped the photo archive for over three decades. His extraordinary expertise, creativity and tireless inventiveness made him an exceptional personality. He was a tinkerer in the best sense of the word, always thinking beyond standards, always searching for the perfect solution.

As part of a research visit, Prof. Roland Hardenberg and Prof. Peter Berger gave a lecture entitled “Social Change, Values, and the Theory of the Event: Examples from India” at the University of Mumbai on February 4, 2026.

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On December 8, 2025, representatives of the Senckenberg Society, Goethe University, and the Frobenius Institute met for a “science brunch” at the invitation of the Frobenius Institute. The aim was to informally exchange ideas regarding possible project collaborations on the topic of “biocultural diversity.”

ASIA Annual Conference 2025, Venice, 15.-18. Dezember 2025

In December 2025, as representatives of the Frobenius Institute, we organized the panel “Plant Knowledge in the Caucasus” at the annual conference of the Italian Association for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus (ASIAC).

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In late summer 2025, the LOEWE Center “Dynamics of Religion: Ambivalent Neighborhoods between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Historical and Contemporary Constellations” was approved by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art, and Culture (HMWK).

We invite master's students and early-career researchers (doctoral candidates; postdoctoral researchers) to present their completed or planned research.