
CfP: Online-Workshop "Saving and being safe away from 'home'"
An online-Workshop by the research project "On the saf(v)e side: informal economic associations and future aspirations in the Ethiopian Diaspora" of the Frobenius Institute.
Date: 07th-08th April, 2022
Deadline: 03rd January, 2022
More informationen here
Call for Papers: Summer Symposium 2022
On June 09th-10th, 2022, the Frobenius Institute welcomes you to the 4th Summer Symposium!
We invite Master's students, PhD students, and post-docs to present their completed or planned research. Proposals are being accepted for:
- Talks
- poster presentations
- ethnographic films
Deadline for applications: January 31st, 2022
More information here

New collaboration with the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
The Frobenius Institute has concluded a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute for Migration Studies and Intercultural Communication (IMiK) of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.
The cooperation led to common research interests that are currently being explored together in the project "On the saf(v)e side: Informal Business Associations and Future Aspirations in the Ethiopian Diaspora".

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The wax and gold of hairstyles in Ethiopia
Starting May 25th, 2021, the Addis Ababa Museum shows the photo exhibition
"The wax and gold of hairstyles in Ethiopia"
Obituary for Meinhard Schuster
We mourn the death of Meinhard Schuster (1930-2021).
Meinhard Schuster was closely associated with the Frobenius Institute for decades. On March 12, 2021, an obituary by Karl-Heinz Kohl appeared in the Feuilleton under the headline "Er war Columbus" an obituary by Karl-Heinz Kohl appeared in the feuilleton of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
As a researcher, he experienced first encounters twice: On the death of the ethnologist Meinhard Schuster

In memoriam Gisela Stappert

Call for applications: Masterclass with Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl
Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl (Mainz) is our guest of this year's Ad.E.Jensen Memorial Lecture 2021
A Masterclass with Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl on "Ethnology and Counterculture" (July 02 - 03, 2021, Frankfurt a.M.) is part of the event. Applications are open to advanced Master's students, PhD students until April 15, 2021.
Call for Applications
The lectures will be held in German.
Further information on dates, topic and program of the Ad.E.Jensen Memorial Lecture 2021 can be found here.

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.
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