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Public Lectures & Events

Peter Stamm am Lesepult seiner Lesung bei vollem H?rsaalKartsen Becker/Universit?t Bamberg
Poetikprofessur der Germanistik - Lesung mit Peter Stamm

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

Events by the Institute of Philosophy (in German)

Interdisciplinary Offers

All events are in German.

English and American Studies

Archaeological Sciences, Heritage Studies, and Art History

All events are in German.

Protestant Theology

  • Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Marcia Pally - “The US Religious Right: Christians For and Against It - Why and What are They Doing Today?” (June 23, 2025, 6:15-7:45 p.m., U2/01.33)
  • Current lectures
  • Theology Forum - lecture series each winter term (October to February)

Geography

All events are in German.

German Studies

All events are in German.

  • Lecture series “From Tragedy to Coming-of-Age Film: Variations on the Collision of the World and the Self" by PD Dr. phil. habil. Felix Lenz(225.5 KB)
    • From 6:15 to 8 p.m. respectively, U7/01.05
    • “Everything will be fine (2015): Maturation through Guilt as a Journey Through All Colors” (26.06.25)
    • “The Tree of Life (2011): Job! Or the Search for Comprehensive Maturation" (03.07.25)
    • “Wild Strawberries (1957): Ritual, Subjectivity, Intergenerational Progress” (10.07.25)
  • Three poetics lectures in which Alina Bronsky introduces her work and writing (each in room U2/00.25, An der Universit?t 2), on the following dates:
    • Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
    • Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
    • Following the lecture series, a research colloquium on the work of Alina Bronsky in cooperation with the International Artists' House Villa Concordia will take place: July 23-25, 2025
      further information and contact
  • For regular updates on events organized by the chair for Newer German Literary Studies, please contact lehrstuhl.germ-lit1(at)uni-bamberg.de referencing "Literatur in der Universit?t".

History / European Ethnology

All events are in German.

  • International guest lecture series in European Ethnology: THROUGH EXCLUSION Processes? Perspectives on Social Inequality
    • Prof. Francis Seeck (Nuremberg): “Classism. The Forgotten Form of Discrimination?” (May 12, 2025, 6:15 p.m., An der Universit?t 5, room U5/02.22)
    • Laura B?umel, M.A. (Zurich): “Lifestyle Revisited. A Feminist Update Against the Backdrop of Precarious Working and Living Conditions Today” (June 17, 2025, 6:15 p.m., Hochzeitshaus, Am Kranen 12, room KR12/00.16)
    • Felix Gaillinger, M.A. (Vienna): “(With) Class in European Ethnology. Biographical Notes and Analitical Consequences” (July 8, 2025, 6:15 p.m., Markusstra?e 8a, room MG1/02.06)
  • Guest lectures of the chair of History and Culture of Late Antiquity:
    • Prof. Dr. Anna Heller: “Présentation du livre L’?ge d’or des bienfaiteurs. Titres honorifiques et sociétés civiques dans l’Asie Mineure d’époque romaine, Genève, 2020” (11.06.25)
    • Dr. George Woudhuysen: “Readers of Tacitus in the Later Roman Empire” (16.07.25)
  • Exhibitions by the Institute for Franconian History:

Catholic Theology

Communication Studies

Middle Eastern and Oriental Studies

  • Bavarian Orient-Colloquium (Thursdays starting April 24, 2025, 6:15 p.m. (c.t.), Schillerplatz 17, room SP17/00.13)
    • May 22 (3:00–7:00 p.m.): Workshop “Arabic, Javanese, and Malay Islamic Literature in Southeast Asia and the Diaspora” (English)
      • Prof. Nico Kaptein: “Ahmad Khatib Minangkabau (1860-1916) on Circumcision”
      • Prof. Edwin Wieringa: “On the Road for Adventure, Knowledge, and Love: Classical Javanese Narrative Poems on Wandering Students of Islam”
      • Prof. Patrick Franke: “Shafik Efendi and Faridah Hanom: Sheikh al-Hadi's first novel as a plea for a reform of Islamic sexual ethics”
      • Dr. Philipp Bruckmayr: “The Printing of kitab jawi in the Hejaz, Istanbul and Cairo”
    • June 5: “The Role of Poetry in the Literature of Cyprus in Turkish language” (German)
    • June 12: “Discipline and Punish: On the Practice of Regulating Public Morality in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” (German)
    • June 26: “Queering Islamic Art: Gender Diversity and the Critique of Sexual Normativity in Contemporary Art of the MENA Region” (German)

Classical Philology & Philosophy

All events are in German if not stated otherwise.

  • De Arte et Scientia: Thought and Creation in the Middle Ages
    • All lectures take place at 6 p.m., room U2/00.25, in German
    • Dr. Nathalie-Josephine von M?llendorff: “On the Philosophical Foundation of Medieval Music Theory” (28.05.25)
    • Dr. Cleophea Ferrari: “Religion as a Reflection of Philosophy: Neoplatonism in the Islamic Middle Ages” (18.06.25)
    • Prof. Dr. Gregor Nickel: “On the Role of Mathematics for Galileo Galilei's and Nikolaus von Kues' Philosophy” (02.07.25)
    • Prof. Dr. Marko Fuchs: “On the Topicality Nikolaus von Kues' Reasoning” (09.07.25)
  • Summer Party on July 7, 2025 starting at 7 p.m. (F?rbergasse 28)
  • Philosophical Night Café (monthly at 7 p.m. respectively, F?rbergasse 28)

Romance Studies

  • Guest lectures at the chair of Romance Literature (Spanish)
    • Dr. Philipp Kampschroer (Universidade Católica Portuguesa): “Schiller in Portugal: A Handwritten Translation of Wilhelm Tell from 1848” (June 3, 2025; 6:15 p.m., room U2/02.04; German)
    • Prof. Dr. Andreas Kurz (Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico): “The Transformation of the Commited Author Nelly Campobello into a Representative of an Innocent Girl's Perspective or a Na?ve Witness to the Events of the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1917” (provisional title) (June 3, 2025; German)

Slavic Studies