Einladung zur Austellungseröffnung
Hiermit laden wir Sie herzlich zu der feierlichen Eröffnung der Ausstellung “Wer braucht schon ein Sparkonto, wenn man Freund*innen hat?” ein.
Guests at the Frobenius Institute
Dr. Worku Nida (University of California at Riverside) and Dr. Anbessa Teferra (Tel Aviv University) are guests at the Frobenius Institute between June and August 2022.
Workshop: Ethnologie als Alltagsressource
Book Announcement
Ethnologie als Angewandte Wissenschaft. Das Zusammenspiel von Theorie und Praxis.
HARDENBERG, Roland; PLATENKAMP, Josephus and WIDLOK, Thomas (Hg.)
Studien zur Kulturkunde 136
MoUs with three Ethiopian institutions
In June, the Frobenius Institute signed three new MoUs with the following Ethiopian institutions:
The wax and gold of hairstyles in Ethiopia
From June 2nd, 2022, the South Omo Research Center in Jinka will show the photo exhibition
"The wax and gold of hairstyles in Ethiopia"
Sommersymposium 2022
The Frobenius Institute is pleased to present the program of this year's Sommersymposium on June 9 and 10, 2022. With its annual Sommersymposium, the Frobenius Institute offers young researchers at German-speaking ethnological institutes the opportunity to present their latest research work related to social and cultural anthropology to an interested audience and to exchange ideas with other scholars.
Historical material returns to the Kimberley
What is the value and significance of historical ethnographic collections today? Early July 2022, archival materials – prints of paintings and digital documents – from the German ethnographic expeditions to the Kimberley, Northwest Australia (1938-39, 1954-55), were presented to the Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation.
Paideuma and Déjà Lu
Paideuma ist mit dem Aufsatz „Ein erwünschter Staat? Dezentralisierung im urbanen Java als Staatsbildung ‚von unten‘“ von Tim Pöhlmann, erschienen 2020 in Band 66:101–126, im Jubiläumsheft 10 der vom World Council of Anthropological Associations herausgegebenen Zeitschrift Déjà Lu vertreten.
https://www.waunet.org/wcaa/archive/downloads/wcaa/dejalu/dejalu10/Paideuma.pdf
Interview with Holger Jebens: "Acquisition and display ethics"
Holger Jebens was interviewed for the "Oral History Archive" of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (ETH Zurich) and asked about the Frobenius Institute's Ethnographic Collection. A transcription of the interview can be found here:
https://www.oralhistoryarchiv.ch/docs/interviews/Interview-Holger-Jebens.pdf
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- Ad.E. Jensen Memorial Lecture 2022
- Online Workshop "Saving and Being Safe Away from Home"
- Projektbericht zu deutsch-iranischem Kooperationsprojekt
- Cereals’-Eye View: Millet Workshop at the University of Groningen 2022
- Interview with Holger Jebens: „Sammeln. Der Kosmos wissenschaftlicher Objekte“
- Generous donation of Angola literature
- Successful university dialogues within the framework of a DAAD project with Iran
- Rock art collection nominated for World Document Heritage - decision to be made in Paris




