Frankfurt - Lesotho: Rock art exhibition opens at the Morija Museum
Almost 100 years ago, three Frankfurt artists — Agnes Schulz, Maria Weyersberg, and Elisabeth Mannsfeld — travelled to Lesotho as part of the Frobenius expedition to southern Africa. Their mission: to document the region’s rock paintings using watercolours and coloured pencil.
Workshop: Cereal Cultures — Exploring Past and Present Social and Economic Systems of Millet and Cereal Cultivation in India and Beyond
14–16 May 2025 | University College London & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Lecture recommendation
Dr. Takele Merid, Addis Ababa
Titel: „Rethinking the Ethnological Collection of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies”
Date: 30. Juni 2025
Time: 16 Uhr c.t.
Room: IG 0.254
The Frobenius Institute at the International Conference of Ethiopian Studies and the DGSKA
In October, members of the Frobenius Institute were frequently in attendance at various events.
Team meeting and excursion in the “Global Pastures” project
From 31 August to 4 September, Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg participated in the third team meeting and field trip for the research project “Global Pastures: Ethnographic Explorations of Alpine Grassland Connections”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-South Tyrol since 2023. The project is led by Prof. Dr. Viviane Cretton (HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland) and Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Tauber (Free University of Bolzano, Italy).
Anniversary celebration: „100 years of the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt"
On 11 July 2025, the Frobenius Institute celebrated its centenary in Frankfurt with around 90 guests at the Frankfurt Historical Museum.
Workshop: Fundamentals of urban anthropology. History, power relations, and regional focal points from a social and cultural anthropological perspective
On June 16 and 17, 2025, urban anthropologists from all over Germany and Switzerland met in Frankfurt to discuss the fundamentals of urban anthropology and to promote the publication of a handbook on urban anthropology by Springer Verlag. Individual chapters were already discussed at this meeting.
Summer School: “Gods, Fields, Minds and Mines”, 16 to 22 June 2025 at the Goethe University ‘Guest House Bergkranz’ in Kleinwalsertal (Austria)
From 16th to 22nd of June 2025, scholars, PhD students, master’s and bachelor’s students from India, Germany and the Netherlands gathered at the stunning mountain retreat of Goethe University’s ‘Guest House Bergkranz’ in Kleinwalsertal, Austria.
Das Frobenius-Institut auf der ECAS
Das Frobenius-Institut nimmt mit einem Büchertisch, einem Panel und der Organisation des European Librarians in African Studies (ELIAS) Meetings an der European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) teil. 
Tigray Heritage Scapes Restoration Initiative
The Tigray Heritage Scapes Restoration Initiative is a two-year research and conservation project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, dedicated to the scientific documentation, preservation, and restoration of cultural heritage in Tigray, Ethiopia.
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