Translation prize for our award winner Valerie Hänsch
Valerie Hänsch, winner of the 2017 Frobenius Prize for the Promotion of Young Researchers, has received another prize for the work we honoured with the title ‘Vertreibung und Widerstand im sudanesischen Niltal: Ein Staudammprojekt und der Versuch zu bleiben’.
Science Festival 2024
Start of the colloquium in the winter semester
Frobenius Institute awards research promotion prize to Dr. Joseba Estevez
Once a year, the Frobenius Institute awards the Frobenius Research Promotion Prize to excellent ethnological dissertations in German-speaking countries at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
GRADE Initiative for Ethiopian Studies
Country bin pull'em
The exhibition at the Weltkulturenmuseum “Country bin pull'em. Looking back together”, which was created in cooperation with the Frobenius Institute and can be seen until August 2025, has received positive reviews in the press. Here you can find some recent reviews:
Call for Applications: Masterclass 2024 with Andrew Apter
Application deadline extended to 24 May!
Prof. Dr. Andrew Apter (UCLA) is our guest of this year´s Ad.E.Jensen-Gedächtnisvorlesung 2024 with the title: "Historical ethnography and the ritual archive".
Call for Papers
Retreat of the Frobenius Institute 2023
Once again the members of the Frobenius Institute met for a profile conference this year to discuss current projects, plans and research topics at the institute. 
The Frobenius Institute at the International Conference of the History of Anthropologies
Publication of the Ad. E. Jensen Lecture 2023
The lecture given by Prof Dr Francis B. Nyamnjoh held at the Frobenius Institute in June 2023 with the title "Incompleteness, mobility and conviviality" is now available as a book.
More Articles …
- Ausstellung in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Frobenius-Institut im Musée de l’homme, Paris
- New publication: Ritual and Social Dynamics in Christian and Islamic Preaching
- Workshop: Entangled Economies. Mining and Agriculture from Antiquity to Modern Ages in Southern Spain
- We mourn the loss of Prof. Josef Franz Thiel
- Book Launch of the book series Southern Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa
- The rock art archive in 3D
- Call for Applications: Masterclass 2024 with Andrew Apter
- German Science Council recommends strengthening the Frobenius Institute
