The Frobenius Institute is pleased to welcome anthropologist Anne Meneley for this year’s Ad. E. Jensen Memorial Lecture. Under the title How to Do Things with Plants: Easy and Uneasy Collaborations with Plants, the lecture series explores the complex relationships between humans, plants, and political landscapes.

Two members of the Frobenius Institute attended the 3rd SODa Barcamp, which was recently held by SODa at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. The event provided an open platform for discussion on topics related to research data, digital infrastructures, and sustainable data management in the humanities and social sciences.

The presentations of this year’s Summer Symposium are now available on the institute’s YouTube channel. Interested viewers can watch the presentations there at any time and gain a comprehensive overview of the topics presented.
In addition, photos of the poster presentations and highlights of the event have now been published on the Summer Symposium website, offering insights into the proceedings and atmosphere of the event.

The Frobenius Institute is delighted to invite you to Frankfurt am Main on 11 and 12 June 2026 for its 8th Summer Symposium. The time is fast approaching: Master’s students and early-career researchers in social and cultural anthropology will come together to discuss current research projects, ethnographic work and new perspectives.

We warmly congratulate our colleague and expert in the history of the discipline, Dr. Katja Geisenhainer, on being awarded the venia legendi in ethnology!

The 2026 Wilhelm Bender Dissertation Prize, worth 5,000 euros, is being awarded to our former doctoral candidate, Dr. Maike Melles, in recognition of her outstanding dissertation titled “Landscape as a Resource: Reinventing Heritage in the Spanish Dehesa” and her significant contribution to the humanities and social sciences.

The project "Reclaiming Narrative: Exploring Ethnographic Film Archives as a site for Transformative Agency and Cosmopolitics through Film Restitution and Found Footage Film Production" is online. Link to the project page