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.

Two members of the Frobenius Institute attended the 3rd SODa Barcamp, which was recently held by SODa at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. The event provided an open platform for discussion on topics related to research data, digital infrastructures, and sustainable data management in the humanities and social sciences.

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.

We warmly congratulate our colleague and expert in the history of the discipline, Dr. Katja Geisenhainer, on being awarded the venia legendi in ethnology!

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.

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

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.