Public Lectures & Events
Coming up soon...
| Date | Event | Time | Room | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24.06.26 | As part of the Archaeological Prospection exam colloquium(125.4 KB) - Hiskia Knestrick: “Non-invasive surveys on the Staffelberg (Bad Staffelstein) and its Plateaus: A Landscape-Archaeological Analysis” | 4:15 p.m. | KR14/00.03 | German |
| 24.06.26 | Sven Grampp: “For a left-wing platform populism” | 4:15 p.m. | U2/01.33 | German |
| 24.06.26 | PD Dr. Matthias Haake: “The Emperor as author: a comparative study of sole rule from Archaic Greece to Late Antiquity.” | 6:15 p.m. | KR12/00.05 | German |
| 24.06.26 | Poetics Lecture by Ingo Schulze - “Three Journeys With a Manuscript”: In the South - India | 6 to 9 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 25.06.26 | Gesine Mierke und Magdalena Quast: “Wood in Medieval Literature” | 2:15 p.m. | KR10/03.03 | German |
| 25.06.26 | Prof. Dr. Eva Orthmann: “Astral-Magical texts from India: the Shattariyya and the invocation of the greatest names of God” | 6:15 p.m. | SP17/00.13 | German |
| 25.06.26 | Barbara Wittmann: “Water and immaterial cultural heritage. New perspectives on sustainability via traditional techniques?” | 6:15 p.m. | ID: 660 6959 3699 | German |
| 25.06.26 | PD Dr. Tobias Frese: “Play Rooms. On the Aesthetics of Chess in the Middle Ages” | 6:15 p.m. | KR12/00.16 | German |
| 25. - 26.06.26 | Research Colloquium centered around the Poetics Professorship | Villa Concordia | German | |
| 26.06.26 | ROBINs Test&Talk (Smart City Bamberg - Initiative): “From an idea to your project - simplified through the digital ROBIN-tools” | 3-5 p.m. | U5 (court) | German |
| 29.06.26 | Prof. Dr. Heike Delitz: “Urban Practices, the Birth of the Modern City, and the Urban-Concentrated Architectural Mode of Collective Existence” | 2:15 p.m. | Meeting-ID: 669 6911 5040 Password: c!Rk5u | German |
| 29.06.26 | Hans Peter Hahn: “Talking about material: wood metaphors and the value(s) of wood” | 7 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 01.07.26 | Julian Bockius, M.A.: “Nietzsche contra Wagner? Artistry and ethics of compassion in Hugo von Hoffmannsthal's posthumous sonnets” | 6 p.m. | U5/00.24 | German |
| 02.07.26 | PD Dr. Elena Furlanetto: “Turkish American Literature Now and Then: Daily Life of a Discipline Inside, Outside, and Between Empires” | 2:15 p.m. | SP17/00.13 | English |
| 02.07.26 | Dr. Christina Scheiter: “The Hama Massacre (1982) in Syrian Literature: Rememberance, Silence, and Power” | 6:30 p.m. | SP17/00.13 | German |
| 02.07.26 | Presentation of Prof. Dr. Roland Bogard's Books “Büchner's Animals” | 6-9 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 03.07.26 | Philosophical Salon organized by the Franconian Philosophical Society: (1.0 MB)Shakespeare in the park (with picnic) | 6-8 p.m. | Boathouse in the Hain park | German |
| 06.07.26 | Werner Scheltjens: “Rotten, moldy, and burnt. Timber and its formation processes in the archaeological tradition” | 7 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 07.07.26 | Bekhruz Kurbanov M.A.: “Repoussé Brasswork from Khurasan (1150-1300): Typology, Chronology and Workshop Traditions” | 6:30 p.m. | KR12/02.18 | English |
| 08.07.26 | Prof. Dr. Stefan Schick: “The right to freedom and its limits” | 6 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 08.07.26 | Podium discussion “The beginning of the end: 35 years after the start of the war in Jugoslavia" with Samir Beharić, Daniel Göler, Johannes Grotzky, Simone Guidetti, Nikolay Hakimov, and Markus Behmer; organized by the Southeast-Europe-Society | 6:15 p.m. | MG2/01.10 | German |
| 09.07.26 | Bettina Wagner: "Book covers in the Bamberg state library" | 2:15 p.m. | Staatsbibliothek Bamberg | German |
| 09.07.26 | Kerstin Kaiser-Reissing M.A.: “… The traces of old nobility - The Sebaldus church as a place of reference for the sovereign legitimacy of the Nuremberg patricians" | 6:15 p.m. | KR12/00.16 | German |
| 09.07.26 | Dr. Mustafa Tupev: “Architectural traditions, architectural citations, and historism in the historic district of Cairo (1517-1789)” | 6:30 p.m. | SP17/00.13 | German |
| 13.07.26 | Andreas Huth: "legno and legname. Wood as sculpture material in the Quattrocento" | 7 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 16.07.26 | Sabine Vogt: "Wood and wood working: Allegory and Metaphor in Antique Literature" | 2:15 p.m. | KR10/03.03 | German |
| 16.07.26 | Ellena Steinböck: “Archaeological findings from the Staffelberg (Bad Staffelstein) and its plateaus: a landscape archeological analysis” | 2:30 p.m. | KR14/00.03 | German |
| 16.07.26 | European Ethnology occupational field information event and alumni get-together; speakers:
| 6 p.m. | U5/02.22 | German |
| 16.07.26 | Prof. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky: “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” | 6:30 p.m. | SP17/00.13 | English |
| 29.07.26 | Philosophical Night Café | 7 p.m. | Rostscheune (Färbergasse 28) | German |
Regular activities during term
The following offers are in German if not indicated otherwise.
- “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 Universität 5; in English)
- Weekly meetups to chat, discuss, and catch up (Stammtisch)
- Foreign Language Discussion Groups (Italian, Spanish, French, Romance languages)
- Philosophy-Stammtisch: Wednesdays starting 8 p.m. at the Rotenschild (Ob. Sandstraße 18)
- Historical Geography Seminar (Thursdays from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m., KR1/00.05)
- Lecture series “Wood, Timber, Lumber. A Universal Material of Pre-modern European Cultures”(573.4 KB, 1 page)
- Mondays, 7 p.m.
- An der Universität 2, U2/00.25
- Medieval seminar “Wood: Material, Medial, and Metaphorical Dimensions”(1.3 MB, 1 page)
- Thursdays, 2:15 - 3:45 p.m.
- Am Kranen 10, Raum KR10/03.03
- Archaeological Colloquium
- Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
- Am Kranen 12 (Hochzeitshaus), KR12/02.18
- Geographical Colloquium
- Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m.
- Am Kranen 12 (Hochzeitshaus), KR12/02.18
- Bavarian Orient-Colloquium
- Thursdays, 6:15 p.m., c.t.
- Schillerplatz 17, SP17/00.13
- Archaeology workshop both for children and adults (Fridays from 12 to 4 p.m., room KR14/01.22, Am Kranen 14; in German)
- TheoWerk
- Networking and exchange of experiences in the theological workshop for teaching and learning (workroom with different theological materials and ‘tools’)
- Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
- An der Universität 2, U2/02.30

