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 2022/23

Programme brochure with abstracts

From October 2024, 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)

28.10.2024
Frijda Schmidt, University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology, UK
Feeding the Etruscans

04.11.2024
Nilly Venezia, Venezia Institute for Diversity and Multiculturalism, Israel
The internal and external eye: On the gap between the multicultural approach and its daily practice in the anthropologist‘s professional life

11.11.2024
Tim Burger, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Profane promises and perfect transfers: The Azorean holy ghost festival as an economic institution

18.11.2024
Serawit B. Debele, Universität Bayreuthn
The social life of sex in post-socialist Ethiopia

25.11.2024
Gomathy Kamala Naganathan, University of Hyderabad, India
Understanding urban rooftop home gardening beyond growing ‘safe’, ‘organic’ food

02.12.2024
Alula Tesfay Asfha, Frobenius-Institut
Conserving Tigray‘s heritage-cape: Integrating archival research, field documentation, and aerial survey

09.12.2024
Birgit Scheps-Bretschneider, Staatliche Ethnographischen Sammlungen Sachsen (SES)
Die Heimkehr der Ahnen - Geschichten von Restitution und Repatriierung

16.12.2024
Almut Schneider, Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale
Verdant grass gardens and beyond – Aesthetics of mountain agriculture (European Alps)

13.01.2025
Peter A. Mark, Emeritus Professor of African Art History, Wesleyan University and Long-term research associate of the Frobenius-Institut
The earliest Maroon communities? Asylum Communities for escaped slaves in 16th- and 17th-century Senegambia

20.01.2025
Magnus Treiber, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
The anti-refugee-machine: A heuristic device for migration studies