Colloquium

Every winter term, the Frobenius Institute invites international scholars of cultural anthropology and related disciplines to present their current research projects in its colloquium on ongoing research. The colloquium is characterized by its diversity of topics, regional contexts and disciplines, and serves the discursive, dialogical and critical acquisition of knowledge. The personal encounter in the colloquium is intended to enable and strengthen scientific cooperations.

Colloquium in winter term 2026/27

Brochure Colloquium 2026/27

From October 2026, the colloquium will be held in presence (Campus Westend). We reserve the right to make changes according to the regulations under the pandemic. Therefore, please always consult the current information on our homepage.

In Presence:
Campus Westend, Goethe University
Room IG 454

Dates:
Mondays, 4.15 pm - 5.45 pm (Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris)
Start: October 19, 2026 (weekly up to and including Febuary 8, 2027)

19.10.2026

Ketevan Lapachi, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Animacy, time and space: the logic of hair exchange in Tbilisi and the wholeness of a fragmented body

26.10.2026

Hans-Georg Tannhäuser, Missionswerk, Leipzig

Gutpela Sindaun wantaim? Eigen – und Fremdwahrnehmung kirchlicher Überseebegegnungen

02.11.2026

Daniel Repky, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

The killing of a dog: the slaughterers of Parakou and their rites and practices of ambiguation

09.11.2026

Asrat Gella Center for Development Research (ZEF) - Cultural and Political Change

When nature is no longer sacred: ontological encounters and frictions in human-environment relations among the Konso of Ethiopia

16.11.2026

Katharina Graf, Institute of Cultural Anthropology & European Ethnology, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
From gut to ground: tracing human-microbial ecologies in everyday food practices

23.11.2026
Hilal Alkan, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
What anthropomorphism achieves: plant companions and migrant world-making+

30.11.2026

Dr. Federica Nardella, American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Feeling the eagle, voicing the soul: interspecies apprenticeship, moral presence, listening and speech in Kyrgyz and Kazakh eagle-hunting

07.12.2026

Baktygul Shabdan, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, LOEWE-Zentrum „Dynamiken des Religiösen“

Living side by side: everyday interactions in Bishkek’s multireligious neighborhoods

14.12.2026

Felix Uhl, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Todos seres encantados – Huni-Kuin-Kosmopolitik zwischen der Boa und der Bibel

18.01.2027

Maththias Lewy, Transcultural Music Studies, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar

Singen und Alimentation, Aushandlungen von ownership zwischen Pflanzen und Menschen

25.01.2027
Maya Ishizawa Escudero, Independent heritage specialist, Secretary General of the COMOS-IFLA, International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes
Why cultural landscapes are important for heritage conservation?

01.02.2027

Igor Karim, Frobenius-Institut Frankfurt

Beyond the image: film restitution, epistemic agency, and the cosmopolitics of the archive

08.02.2027

Prof. Dr. hab. Hanna Rubinkowska-Anioł, Lehrstuhl für afrikanische Sprachen und Kulturen, University of Warsaw

Religious and social divisions in Ethiopian Antika painting

Frobenius-Institut
Campus Westend
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
IG-Farbenhaus, Erd- und Untergeschoss Q5 und V5
60323 Frankfurt am Main