Public Lectures & Events
The following offers are not only aimed at members of the university, but rather at all who are interested. Simply come along on the day!
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Regular Activities during Term
- TheoWork
- Tuesdays, 10-11:30 p.m.
- Wednesdays, 12:15 to 1:45 p.m.
- Thursdays, 4-5:30 p.m.
- “What's going on?” - informal discussion and chat about current affairs in the English-speaking world (Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m., room U5/01.17, An der Universit?t 5; in English)
- Medieval Studies Seminar “Dido” (Thursdays from 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.)
- Bamberg's tombstone consultation-hour: Exploring Jewish cemeteries in Franconia (in German)
- Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. via Zoom
- To participate, please contact Tina Weidemann beforehand
- Bavarian Orient-Colloquium
- Archaeology workshop both for children and adults (Fridays from 12 to 4 p.m., room KR14/01.22, Am Kranen 14; in German)
- Philosophical Night Café (contact: Dr. Jens Wimmers)
Coming up soon...
| Date | Event | Time | Room | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27.11.25 | Dr. Elisabeth Lechner: “What I eat in a day: Conspicuous Consumption from Early Modern Witches to Contemporary Influencers” | 12 p.m. | U5/01.22 | English |
| 27.11.25 | Dr. Sarah Hutterer und Sarah Weichlein: “The Epic in Lyric Form? Dido in Medieval Lyric Poetry, especially the Carmina Burana”(1.4 MB) | 2:15 p.m. | KR10/03.03 | German |
| 27.11.25 | Klaus Ott (Süddeutsche Zeitung): “The Work of an Investigative Journalist” | 4:15 p.m. | WE5/02.006 | German |
| 27.11.25 | Theological Forum: “Thanks to AI?! What AI Promises US”(6.9 MB) - Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn: ”I'm Your Partner! Friendship, Love, and Sex with Robots" | 6:15 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 27.11.25 | Reading with Lion Christ: “Sauhund” ("Bastard", Queer Reading with CSD Bamberg) | 8 p.m. | Balthasar (Balthasarg??chen 1) | German |
| 28.11.25 | Dr. Klaus Rupprecht: “When the ‘Peasants’ Stormed the Castles - Procedures, Key Players, and Motives of the Peasants' War 1525 in the Bishopric of Bamberg" | 7 p.m. | U5/00.22 | German |
| 01.12.25 | Dr. Heike Schlie: “Intermateriaity and Thechniconology: The Bronze Door of San Zeno in Verona” | 6:15 p.m. | U5/02.22 | German |
| 02.12.25 | Dr. Adam Benfer Ph.D.: “The archaeology of travel in prehispanic southern Central America” (Archaeological Colloquium) | 6:30 p.m. | KR12/02.18 | English |
| 02.12.25 | PD Dr. Robert Klugseder: “Artificial Intelligence in Choral Research” (as part of the Bamberg Book Histories) | 7 p.m. | Zoom | German |
| 02.12.25 | Prof. Dr. Andrea Bartl: “Refined: What Book Should I Give For Christmas?” | a) 6 p.m.
b) 8 p.m. | E.T.A. Hoffmann Theater / Studio (free entry, tickets available at the box office) | German |
| 03.12.25 | Prof. Harold Hellwig: “Family Discord: The Politics of Racial Time Unhinged in Baldwin's ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ and Barry Jenkins' Adaptation, ‘Beale Street’”(423.9 KB) | 12:15 p.m. | U5/02.18 | English |
| 03.12.25 | Book presentation of “Adam's Fall” ("Der Fall Adams") by the author Hans Wollschl?ger, the editors Thomas K?rber and Nico Prelog + Reading from Martin Neubauer's novel(351.4 KB, 1 page) | 6 p.m. | U5/00.24 | German |
| 03.12.25 | Prof. Dr. B?rbel Frischmann: “Fear in Times of Democracy in Crisis” | 6:15 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 04.12.25 | Prof. Dr. Gesine Mierke: “Dido in the Aeneid” | 2:15 p.m. | KR10/03.03 | German |
| 04.12.25 | Maximilian Lenk: “Russian Contact Languages - A (Socio-) Linguistic Overview)” (Advanced Seminar on Historical Geography) | 4:15 p.m. | KR1/00.05 | German |
| 05.12.25 | Prof. Silvia Mayer: “Science Fiction, Critical Utopia, and Narratives of Resilience: Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Transformative Environmentalism” | 12:15 p.m. | U5/01.17 | English |
| 08.12.25 | Prof. Dr. Andreas Hammer: “'Wa vunde man sament so manig liet?' On Collecting, Writing and Sorting Medieval Lyrics in the Codex Manesse” | 6:15 p.m. | U5/02.22 | German |
| 08.12.25 | TriaS-Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Konrad V?ssing: “'Until the Bitter End'? Yeast, Sediment, and Siphon in the Ancient Drinking Party”(858.7 KB) | 6:15 p.m. | KR12/02.18 | German |
| 09.12.25 | Ilene and Paul Kreshka: “The Belle of Amherst: The Life and Writings of Emily Dickinson”(545.8 KB) (Performance) | 4:15 p.m. | U7/01.05 | English |
| 09.12.25 | Prof. em. Dr. Josef Dohmen: “Autonomy or Solidarity - What kind of ethics do we need?” | 6:15 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 09.12.25 | Gonzalo Cantarero de Salazar: “La recepción del teatro de Lope de Vega en tierras de habla alemana” | Spanish | ||
| 09.12.25 | Gabriele Sch?pf-Ruderich: “Queen Amalie of Greece in Exile and the Photographic Collection of Maximilian of Palaus” (as part of the Bamberg Book Histories) | 7 p.m. | Zoom | German |
| 10.12.25 | Prof. Dr. Christian Schicha: “Media Scandals - Public Debates on Literature and the Tension Between Artistic Freedom, Censorship and Privacy" | 4 p.m. | U2/01.33 | German |
| 11.12.25 | Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm: “We are all Africans! Antiracist Discourse and Racialization Processes in Post-Apartheid Population Genetic Projects" (European Ethnology) | 12:15 p.m. | SP17/00.13 | German |
| 11.12.25 | PD Dr. Bettina Full: “Virgilius mendax? Dido in Boccaccio's Women's Book De mulieribus claris” | 2:15 p.m. | KR10/03.03 | German |
| 11.12.25 | Dr. Eva-Maria Fischer und Till Mayer: “Cooperation of NGOs and Journalists in Zones of Crisis” | 4:15 p.m. | WE5/02.006 | German |
| 11.12.25 | Dr. Katja Bernhardt: “Waking Raffael. Proletariat and Cultural Revolution in the GDR” (Art History Evening Lecture) | 6 p.m. | KR12/00.16 | German |
| 11.12.25 | Prof. Dr. Bernhard Koch: “'I Fight For You!' Ethical Questions Concerning Autonomous Weapon Systems”(6.9 MB) | 6:15 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 11.12.25 | Dr. Piero Bellanova: “From a grain of sand to a boulder - Evidence of past tsunamis” (as part of the Geography Colloquium) | 6:15 p.m. | KR12/02.18 | German |
| 15.12.25 | PD Dr. Livia Cárdenas: “Woodcut Before Printing. Economics and Materiality of the Woodblock” | 6:15 p.m. | U5/02.22 | German |
| 15.12.25 | Lina Schr?der: “Myth of the Sea? On Pirates and Great Freedom” | Zoom, access link available upon request at laemmchen(at)geo.uni-frankfurt.de | German | |
| 16.12.25 | Author Reading with Nicholas Boggs: “James Baldwin, A Love Story” | 4:15 p.m. | U7/01.05 | English |
| 16.12.25 | Dr. Brita Jansen: “Gadara in the Decapolis - Old and New Research on a Hellenistic-Roman City in Northern Jordan" (Archaeological Colloquium) | 6:30 p.m. | KR12/02.18 | German |
| 18.12.25 | Maximilian Stintzing: “Books, Bytes, and Libraries - Library Careers for Scholars of Humanities (or Historical Geography) in the 21st Century” | 4:15 p.m. | KR1/00.05 | German |
| 18.12.25 | Dr. Verena Suchy: “Disability in Baroque Treasury Art?” (Art History Evening Lecture) | 6 p.m. | KR12/00.16 | German |
| 18.12.25 | Reading with Eugen Gomringer | 6 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
