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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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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
28.10.2026How many lives did she live? Margarete Susman's autobiography6 p.m.U2/01.33German
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
29.10.2026Opening of the travelling exhibition “Die vertriebenen Kinder” with panel discussion as part of the European Ethnology semester opening event6-10 p.m.branch library 4 (TB4)German
29.10.2026German-Italian Round Table (all language levels)7 p.m.Hopfenhaus Da AndreaGerman/Italian
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
02.11.2026Dr. Rogerio Tostes: “From Pollutio to Consent: Sexual Self-Control and the ‘Vicio Solitario’ in the Canonistic Doctrine of Martín de Azpilecueta”6 p.m.U5/02.22English
03.11.2026Linda Waack: “Women's Literature in Film and Film Journalism” as part of the Media and Culture lecture6 p.m.U2/01.33German
03.11.2026Dr. Franziska Ehrl: “In Images and Sayings: Printed Dances of Death from the Bamberg Collections”7 p.m.Online via Zoom, Passcode SBB#26German
04.11.2026Prof. Dr. Markus Saur: “'I Have Become Like Dust and Ashes!' (Job 30,19b) - Paths Trough Suffering in the Book of Job”6 p.m.U2/01.33German
05.11.2026Prof. Dr. Martin Ott: “Founding Town and Castle in Bavaria”2:15 p.m.KR10/03.03German
05.11.2026Prof. (em.) Dr. Philip Martin: “After the Mid-terms: What Next for US Migration?”6 p.m.KR12/02.18English
10.11.2026Dr. Anna Scherbaum: “Dürer's Legagcy, Hoffmann's Echo: Michael Mathias Prechtl on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth”7 p.m.Zoom, Passcode SBB#26German
11.11.2026Dr. Martin Kudla: “'I Shall Remain a Jew'. On the Creation of Margarete Susman's Book of Job”6 p.m.U2/01.33German
12.11.2026Prof. em. Dr. Rolf Bergmann: “The Word Burg, burg-Names, and Castle Names”2:15 p.m.KR10/03.03German
12.11.2026German-Italian Round Table (all language levels)7 p.m.Hopfenhaus Da AndreaGerman/Italian
13.11.2026

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

  • Iris Bauer: “Ecofeminist Dispositions in Nineteenth-Sentury Women's Literature in Poland”
  • Róbert Balogh: “Pigeon-Human Interaction in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Post-imperial Era”
6 p.m.Please register to receive the zoom-link to particpateEnglish
13.11.2026Dr. Niels Fleck: “800 Years of Veste Coburg: New Discoveries and Insights”7-9:30 p.m.U5/01.22German
16.11.2026Dr. Daniela Wagner: “Knowledge in Glass: The Stained-Glass Windows of St. Dionys in Esslingen”6 p.m.U5/02.22German
17.11.2026Dr. Ralf Obst: "Citizen Science in Bavarian Archaeological Heritage Management"6:30 p.m.KR12/02.18English
17.11.2026Dr. Peter Ruderich: “The Michelsberg Celestial Garden and Its Printed Engraving Models”7 p.m.Teilnahme via Zoom, Meeting-Passcode SBB#26German
18.11.2026Tanja Zimmermann: “From Peasant Art to Global Naive Art: Yugoslavia and the Invention of a Transnational Art Category during the Cold War”(3.4 MB)6 p.m.U2/02.04 or online(3.4 MB)German
18.11.2026Reading with Thomas Hettche: “Liebe”6 p.m.U2/00.25German
18.11.2026Dr. Marcel Humar: “'I Can't Be Bothered to Decipher These Weird Words!!!' Empirical Studies on the Effectiveness of Classical Language Teaching”(116.3 KB)6 p.m.U5/01.22German
19.11.2026PD Dr. Katharina Schüppel: “A Castle in the City? The Palace of Stefano Conti at Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome”2:15 p.m.KR10/03.03German
19.11.2026Prof. Melissa Zeiger: “'No weeds, no toil, no curse': Sylvia Townsend Warner's Garden Politics in Opus 7” 4 p.m.ZoomEnglish
19.11.2026Dr. Nathalie Eleyth: “Narratives of Christian Extremism on Social Media: Perspectives from Christian Theology” as part of the Theological Forum6 p.m.U2/00.25German
19.11.2026Film Screening & Director's Talk with filmmaker Michael Eibl about the documentary “30 Kilo Heimat”6:30 p.m.U5/00.24German
23.11.2026PD Dr. Gaia Gubbini: “Tristan, Isolde and the Physiology of Passion in Medieval Romance Literatures”6 p.m.U5/02.22German
24.11.2026Thorsten Becker M.A.: “Castles Between Sea and Moor: Late Medieval Fortifications in East Frisia”6:30 p.m.KR12/02.18German
24.11.2026Dr. Christopher Retsch: “The Stammbücher of the Bamberg State Library”7 p.m.Teilnahme via Zoom, Meeting-Passcode SBB#26German

Regular activities during term

The following offers are in German if not indicated otherwise.