SFB 1070: Project on religious resources hosts international conference
On March 25–27th, 2021, the collaborative research center (SFB) 1070 ResourceCultures hosts an international online conference under the title:
"Speaking to God and the World –
Ritual and Social Dynamics of Religious Speech"
Registration for the Ad. E. Jensen Memorial Lecture 2021
Anverwandlungen: Beiträge indigener Völker zur Kultur der Moderne
Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl
Job vacancy
As of February 1st 2021, the position of a research associate in the DFG project "The German ethnographic expeditions to the Kimberley, Northwest Australia. A collaborative assessment of research history, the interpretation of Australian Aboriginal heritage and digital repatriation" is available. The possibility for a PhD is given.
Online workshop: Re-activating old film reels – Debating methodologies of collaborative restitution of archival films
28 May 2021
Frobenius Institute, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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.
More Articles …
- New database: Middle-India Archive (MIA)
- Keynote Lecture at international conference "Resources and transformation in pre-modern societies"
- Frobenius Research Award 20202
- Workshop "Conceptualising Religious Infrastructures"
- Introduction to the exhibition "BAXXE ፤ HOME"
- Library opened with restrictions
