In a process lasting one and a half years, the Frobenius Institute was evaluated by the German Science Council at the request of the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts. Today, the very favourable results for our institute were made public by the Science Council.

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We would like to draw your attention to the book launch of ‘The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute’.

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Over the past three weeks, our Australian research partners have been visiting us in Frankfurt.

In der ersten und zweiten Novemberwoche haben sich die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des von der Volkswagen Stiftung geförderten und am Frobenius Institut angesiedelten Forschungsprojektes „Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus“ in Tbilisi (Georgien) getroffen, um über die Endphase des Projektes zu sprechen und Ideen für Anschlussprojekte zu sammeln.

Frobenius-Institut für kulturanthropologische Forschung zeichnet die besten kulturanthropologischen Dissertationen im deutschsprachigen Raum aus.

The programme for the colloquium on ongoing research in the winter semester 2023/24 is now online. We look forward to lively participation and exciting discussions!

Prof. Andrew Apter will be our Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften from 6 October and will spend his stay studying the archival records of Leo Frobenius' trip to Nigeria.

Together with Jeanine Dagyeli from the University of Vienna, Frobenius Institute staff members organized the panel "Plant heritage: human-plant relations and valuations in the Caucasus and Central Asia" at the Turkologentag 2023 in Vienna, Austria. The event took place from September 21st - 23rd, 2023.

Speakers were: Jeanine Dagyeli, Togzhan Utetileuova, and Susanne Fehlings