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Public Lectures & Events

The following offers and events are open to everyone interested in participating. Simply come along on the day, we're happy to have you!

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DateEventTimeRoom/LocationLanguage
16.10.2026

Online Talk Series: “The Human-Animal Bond in Eastern and Eastern-Central European Literature and Scholarship (19th Century)”:

  • Timm Schönfelder: “Animal Ethics in Conversation: On the East-West Trajectory of Hunting Practices During the Long Nineteenth Century”
  • Daša Ličen: “Between care and Control: Animals in the Habsburg Monarchy”
6 p.m.Please register to receive the zoom-link to particpateEnglish
17.10.2026Opening of the cabinet exhibition “Hybrid Creatures from Ancient Central Asia, with Interventions by Adelbert Heil”(525.0 KB)11 a.m.University Museum of Islamic Art, Bamberg: The Bumiller CollectionGerman
19.10.2026Prof. em. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz: “Presentation of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network Project ‘Storytelling als Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond’”6 p.m.U5/02.22German
20.10.2026Dr. de Neef, Prof. Dr. Konrad, Prof. Dr. Korn, Prof. Dr. Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Schreg: “New Stories from the dirt. Short Talks on Current Archaeological Research at the University of Bamberg”6:30 p.m.KR12/02.01German
21.10.2026Reading with Ulrike Draesner: “penelopes sch()iff” (1.1 MB, 1 page)(accompanying program: Odyssey Student Conference)6 p.m.U2/00.25German
22.10.2026Prof. Dr. Stefan Breitling: “Semantic Modeling in Castle Studies: Examples from the Altmühltal” 2 p.m.KR10/03.03German
23.10.2026Interdisciplinary Student Conference: The Odyssey - Adaptations, Afterlives, Female Agency(1.1 MB, 3 pages)starting at 9 a.m.U7/01.05German/English (cf. program)
26.10.2026Prof. Dr. Lea Schäfer: “The Grimms' ‘Weistümer’ as a Source for Historical Linguistics”6 p.m.U5/02.22German
27.10.2026

(In)Justice on South African ground - a story told through lecture and film(184.8 KB)

  • Lecture: Dr. Ntandoyenkosi Mlambo: “Church, Land and (in)justice: A South African Story”
  • Film: “A Piece of Ground” (Sesihle Manzini, 2025)
6:15 to 9:30 p.m. U2/00.25English
29.10.2026Prof. Dr. G. Ulrich Großmann: “The German Castle Museum at Veste Heldburg and Castle Research"2 p.m.ExkursionGerman
29.10.2026Prof. Dr. Kristin Merle: “What Can Christianity Contribute to Deradicalization?”6 p.m.U2/00.25German
30.10.2026

Online Talk Series: “The Human-Animal Bond in Eastern and Eastern-Central European Literature and Scholarship (19th Century)”:

  • Chana Toth-Sewell: “Aviculture in Avdotya Panaeva's Semeǐstvo Tal'nikovykh (1848) and Olga Shapir's Avdot'iny dochki (1898)”
  • Anna Cavazzoni: “From Zoology to Folklore: Mykhailo Maksymovych and the Naturalist Roots of Ukranian Folklore Studies”
6 p.m.Please register to receive the zoom-link to particpateEnglish

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The following offers are in German if not indicated otherwise.