Aktuelles

Die Unbeständigkeit der Dinge. Handwerk, Familie und Mobilität bei den Tuareg in Niger (Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2024) was honored by the German Sociological Association.

The Frobenius Institute is once again represented at EASA this year. EASA 2026 is taking place from 21 to 24 July 2026 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, under the title ‘Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World’.

Our PhD student Desta Lorenso Girma successfully defended his thesis ‘Women and Weshu: Change and Continuity in Gendered Power Relations in the Contemporary Kambaata Community of Central Ethiopia’ on 5th August.

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 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 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