Historical material returns to the Kimberley
What is the value and significance of historical ethnographic collections today? Early July 2022, archival materials – prints of paintings and digital documents – from the German ethnographic expeditions to the Kimberley, Northwest Australia (1938-39, 1954-55), were presented to the Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation.
Paideuma and Déjà Lu
Paideuma ist mit dem Aufsatz „Ein erwünschter Staat? Dezentralisierung im urbanen Java als Staatsbildung ‚von unten‘“ von Tim Pöhlmann, erschienen 2020 in Band 66:101–126, im Jubiläumsheft 10 der vom World Council of Anthropological Associations herausgegebenen Zeitschrift Déjà Lu vertreten.
https://www.waunet.org/wcaa/archive/downloads/wcaa/dejalu/dejalu10/Paideuma.pdf
Interview with Holger Jebens: "Acquisition and display ethics"
Holger Jebens was interviewed for the "Oral History Archive" of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (ETH Zurich) and asked about the Frobenius Institute's Ethnographic Collection. A transcription of the interview can be found here:
https://www.oralhistoryarchiv.ch/docs/interviews/Interview-Holger-Jebens.pdf
Ad.E. Jensen Memorial Lecture 2022
Connectivity: Insights from Hunter-Gatherer Cultures
Prof. Dr. Nurit Bird-David
Online Workshop "Saving and Being Safe Away from Home"
Saving and Being Safe Away from Home
7-8 April 2022
The workshop is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and organized by the research project “On the saf(v)e side: informal economic associations and future aspirations in the Ethiopian diaspora”.
Projektbericht zu deutsch-iranischem Kooperationsprojekt
Der Abschluss-Bericht zu dem vom DAAD gefördertem deutsch-iranischem Studien- und Kooperationsprojekt „Der Wunsch nach einem ‚guten Leben’: Strategien zur Sicherung des Lebensunterhalts im Iran und in Deutschland“ steht nun hier online zum Download zur Verfügung. Eine kurze Beschreibung des Projektes finden sie auch hier. Cereals’-Eye View: Millet Workshop at the University of Groningen 2022
A team of junior researchers from Frobenius Institute attended the Millet workshop on introduction to Archaeobotany of cereal crops at the University of Groningen on the 17th and 18th of February 2022. The workshop was designed and organized by Prof. Rene Cappers, Dr. Sonja Filatova and Arnoud Mauerer. The workshop presented the modules on the morphology of different cereal crops and focused on identifying the primary differences in crop processing.
Interview with Holger Jebens: „Sammeln. Der Kosmos wissenschaftlicher Objekte“
Holger Jebens was selected for the blog "Sammeln. Der Kosmos wissenschaftlicher Dinge" by the coordination office for for scientific university collections in Germany and interviewed about the ethnographic collection of the Frobenius Institute.
Generous donation of Angola literature
The former, long-time (1970-2004) employee of the Frobenius Institute, Dr. Beatrix Heintze, has made a very generous donation to the ethnological Library Leo Frobenius a very generous donation. This consists of several hundred books on the history and culture of Angola and Africa, including many rarities and works in Portuguese rarely found in Germany.
Successful university dialogues within the framework of a DAAD project with Iran
After careful planning and numerous precautionary measures in view of the Corona pandemic, a team of the Frobenius Institute and the Institute of Ethnology of Goethe University succeeded in welcoming eight professors, junior researchers and graduate students from universities and research institutions in Isfahan, Mashhad and Tehran as guests of the “University Dialogues with Islam” in Frankfurt in November 2021.
Rock art collection nominated for World Document Heritage - decision to be made in Paris
The archive of the Frobenius Institute at Goethe University has been nominated by the German Nomination Committee for the UNESCO World Document Heritage "Memory of the World". The final selection will take place in Paris. The rock art collection of the Frobenius Institute for Cultural Anthropological Research at Goethe University Frankfurt is already internationally renowned. Following the submission of the full application for inclusion in the World Documentary Heritage, the German "Memory of the World" Nomination Committee has now unanimously placed the Frobenius Institute's proposal on the list of nominations at its meeting on September 28, 2021.
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