Colloquium

Every winter term, the Frobenius Institute invites international scholars of cultural anthropology and related disciplines to present their current research projects in its colloquium on ongoing research. The colloquium is characterized by its diversity of topics, regional contexts and disciplines, and serves the discursive, dialogical and critical acquisition of knowledge. The personal encounter in the colloquium is intended to enable and strengthen scientific cooperations.

Colloquium in winter term 2025/26

Program Colloquium 2025/26

From October 2025, the colloquium will be held in presence (Campus Westend). We reserve the right to make changes according to the regulations under the pandemic. Therefore, please always consult the current information on our homepage.

In Presence:
Campus Westend, Goethe University
Room IG 454

Dates:
Mondays, 4.15 pm - 5.45 pm (Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris)
Start: October 28, 2024 (weekly up to and including January 20, 2025)

20.10.2025
Aida A. Alymbaeva, Landesnetzwerk Migrantenorganisationen, Sachsen-Anhalt
Food "Accent" within Contesting Identities: The Case from Central Asia

03.11.2025

Hewan Semon, Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, Universität Hamburg

Rethinking Political Legitimacy: Tewodros and the Fǝkkare Iyyäsus

17.11.2025
André Thiemann, Central European and Balkan Studies at the Charles University, Prague
Producing and Transforming "the Serbian Raspberry": Infrastructures and Politics of a "Sensitive" Fruit

24.11.2025
Nikolaus Perneczky, School of the Arts Queen Mary University, London
The Bibliographic Diaspora of African Cinema: Paulin S. Vieyra, "Shared” Film Heritage, and the Politics of Archiving

01.12.2025
Carl Deußen, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Guilt and Fetishism in Imperial Ethnographic Collecting

08.12.2025
Nico Nassenstein, Antonia Fendt, Hauke Dorsch, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz
Kontrahegemoniale Stimmen in der kongolesischen Rumba - im Kongo, in Nachbarländern und im Archiv

12.01.2026
Philippa Ryan, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London
Conserving Tigray‘s heritage-cape: Integrating archival research, field documentation, and aerial survey

19.01.2026
Sandra Kurfürst, University of Cologne
Dancing the city: embodied practices and material infrastructures in Vietnamese hip hop

26.01.2026
Daniel Jákli, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Verdant grass gardens and beyond – Aesthetics of mountain agriculture (European Alps)

02.02.2026
Hans-Georg Tannhäuser, Missionswerk, Leipzig
Gutpela Sindaun wantaim? Eigen – und Fremdwahrnehmung kirchlicher Überseebegegnungen

09.02.2026
Larissa Förster, Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt
Ethnologische Museen nach dem „provenance turn“ - Eine Zwischenbilanz mit Blick auf das Weltkulturen Museums Frankfurt als Beispiel