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
Ad.E. Jensen Memorial Lecture 2022
Online Workshop "Saving and Being Safe Away from Home"
Saving and Being Safe Away from Home
7-8 April 2022
The workshop is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and organized by the research project “On the saf(v)e side: informal economic associations and future aspirations in the Ethiopian diaspora”.
Projektbericht zu deutsch-iranischem Kooperationsprojekt
Der Abschluss-Bericht zu dem vom DAAD gefördertem deutsch-iranischem Studien- und Kooperationsprojekt „Der Wunsch nach einem ‚guten Leben’: Strategien zur Sicherung des Lebensunterhalts im Iran und in Deutschland“ steht nun hier online zum Download zur Verfügung. Eine kurze Beschreibung des Projektes finden sie auch hier. More Articles …
- 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
- CfP: Online-Workshop "Saving and being safe away from 'home'"
- Call for Papers: Summer Symposium 2022
- New collaboration with the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences





