Understanding "being human"
The magazine "GoetheSpektrum" of the Goethe University Frankfurt reports about the Frobenius Institute and its profile. The article appears in a series in which the affiliated research and cultural institutes of the university are introduced.
Advance notice 2021: new publications with editors from the Frobenius Institute
The Frobenius Institute is significantly involved in the Collaborative Research Center "Resource Cultures: Socio-Cultural Dynamics in the Use of Resources" (SFB 1070) at the University of Tübingen. This is also reflected in the latest publications that will appear in 2021 and in which members of the Frobenius Institute are involved as co-editors and authors.
"Religious Dynamics in History and Present"
A group of scholars at Goethe University Frankfurt jointly investigates the theme of "Religious Dynamics in History and the Present" as a research alliance hosted at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg, with the participation of Roland Hardenberg, Director of the Frobenius Institute.
Latest issue of Paideuma out now
The latest issue of our journal Paideuma. Journal of Cultural Anthropology is available!
Yearbook 2019/20
Our latest yearbook is out in which we present our research activities, archives, exhibitions and much more between summer 2019 and summer 2020. We hope you enjoy reading it!
Yearbook 2019/20 PDF (German language)
Colloquium winter term 2020/21
Our colloquium on ongoing research starts on November 30, 2020. In winter 2020/21, our speakers present research undergone, among others, in West Africa, Ethiopia and India.
Rock Art Archive to be listed as UNESCO World's documentary heritage
The Rock Art Archive of the Frobenius Institute is internationally renowned. The German Nominating Committee of the UNESCO program "Memory of the World" has invited the Frobenius Institute to prepare and submit a nomination application to be included in the international register of UNESCO World's documentary heritage.
New database: Middle-India Archive (MIA)
The Middle-India Archive brings together anthropological and indological research on the Central Indian region.
Keynote Lecture at international conference "Resources and transformation in pre-modern societies"
Roland Hardenberg gives the keynote lecture at the international conference "Resources and Transformation in Pre-modern Societies" (November 19–21, 2020) organised by the Leibniz Postdoctoral School "Resources in Society".
Frobenius Research Award 20202
This year's Frobenius Research Award for an excellent dissertation in the field of social and cultural anthropology goes to Dr. des. Lene Faust and her thesis titled "Im Namen der Toten. Eine ethnografische Studie über die faschistische Nachkriegsszene in Rom" (In the name of the dead: an ethnographic study on the post-war fascist scene in Rome), submitted to the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
Workshop "Conceptualising Religious Infrastructures"
The online workshop "Conceptualising Religious Infrastructures", organised by Yanti Hölzchen (Frobenius-Institute) and Benjamin Kirby (University of Leeds), will take place on September 24th, 2020.
To participate, please send an email to: b.j.kirby[at]leeds.ac.uk
