Colloquium winter term 2020/21
Our colloquium on ongoing research starts on November 30, 2020. In winter 2020/21, our speakers present research undergone, among others, in West Africa, Ethiopia and India.
Rock Art Archive to be listed as UNESCO World's documentary heritage
The Rock Art Archive of the Frobenius Institute is internationally renowned. The German Nominating Committee of the UNESCO program "Memory of the World" has invited the Frobenius Institute to prepare and submit a nomination application to be included in the international register of UNESCO World's documentary heritage.
New database: Middle-India Archive (MIA)
The Middle-India Archive brings together anthropological and indological research on the Central Indian region.
Keynote Lecture at international conference "Resources and transformation in pre-modern societies"
Roland Hardenberg gives the keynote lecture at the international conference "Resources and Transformation in Pre-modern Societies" (November 19–21, 2020) organised by the Leibniz Postdoctoral School "Resources in Society".
Frobenius Research Award 20202
This year's Frobenius Research Award for an excellent dissertation in the field of social and cultural anthropology goes to Dr. des. Lene Faust and her thesis titled "Im Namen der Toten. Eine ethnografische Studie über die faschistische Nachkriegsszene in Rom" (In the name of the dead: an ethnographic study on the post-war fascist scene in Rome), submitted to the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
Workshop "Conceptualising Religious Infrastructures"
The online workshop "Conceptualising Religious Infrastructures", organised by Yanti Hölzchen (Frobenius-Institute) and Benjamin Kirby (University of Leeds), will take place on September 24th, 2020.
To participate, please send an email to: b.j.kirby[at]leeds.ac.uk
Introduction to the exhibition "BAXXE ፤ HOME"
A short presentation gives an introduction to our current exhibition "BAXXE ፤ HOME" in the Museum Bautzen and its conceptualisation.
In addition to photos by the Ethiopian photographer Maheder Haileselassie, taken in the Gedeo region in southern Ethiopia, the exhibition also shows photographs of students from Gedeo as well as archive material from the Frobenius Institute.
Library opened with restrictions
The Leo Frobenius Library of Cultural Anthropology has resumed its opening hours with restrictions:
Tue, Wed, Thu: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Only lending and return of media is possible.
