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!
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 Universität 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22.01.26 | Jens Heinrich: “Memory Work in Poland/Warsaw”(334.6 KB) | 4:15 p.m. | KR1/00.05 | German |
| 22.01.26 | Reading with Nava Ebrahimi from her novel Und Federn Überall (2025)(647.3 KB, 2 pages) | 6 p.m. | U5/00.24 | German |
| 22.01.26 | Prof. Dr. Mirka Dickel: “Teaching Understanding in Geography: On the Interconnection of Pedagogical and Disciplinary Insigts”(205.4 KB, 1 page) with the opportunity for further discussion from 8:00 p.m. at the post-colloquium in the Hofcafé | 6:15 p.m. | KR12/02.18 | German |
| 22.01.26 | Dr. Florian Mayrhofer: “'I accompany/lead you in faith!' AI and Religious Meaning-Making in Digital Worlds” | 6:15 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 22.01.26 | Prof. Dr. Benedikt Morschheuser: “Collecting Data Playfully with Gamification and Crowdsourcing” as part of the Smart City Lecture Series | 6:15 p.m. | MG1/02.05 | German |
| 27.01.26 | Dr. Valeria Cera on her research “on tools and techniques for the digital documentation of built heritage, with particular attention to semantic annotation (using AI algorithms), monitoring, preventive conservation, and the dissemination of digital data” | 10 a.m. | ZW6/00.15 | English |
| 27.01.26 | Gregor Förtsch & Philipp Schunkel M.A.: “Episcopal Castle Construction and Settlement Continuity since the Early Middle Ages - The Origins of Kronach in the Sand Fields near Friesen”(279.5 KB) | 6:30 p.m. | KR12/02.18 | German |
| 27.01.26 | Cornelia von Heßberg M.A.: “The German Biography of Emperor Henry II from 1511” as part of the Bamberg Book (Hi)Stories | 7 p.m. | Zoom | German |
| 28.01.26 | Children's book author Regina Feldmann presents her work as part of Black History Month(2.1 MB) | 4:15 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 28.01.26 | Patrick Rummel (Personal Advisor to the Directorate, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories) & Alexander Kropp (Advisor at the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration) as part of the lecture series “What Can I Do with a Degree in History? Alumni Share Insights” | 6 p.m. | KR12/02.18 | German |
| 29.01.26 | Sofie Dippold and Jonas Meurer: “The Reception of Dido in Modern German Literature - Using the Example of Charlotte von Stein's Tragedy Dido (1784) and Rudolf Borchardt's Narrative The New Dido (1929)” | 2:15 p.m. | KR10/03.03 | German |
| 29.01.26 | Dr. Tobit Nauheim: “Practices of Geographical Knowledge Production: Johannes Justus Rein's Journey to Japan (1873-1875)”(334.6 KB) | 4:15 p.m. | Zoom | German |
| 29.01.26 | Prof. Dr. Daniel Fenner: “Crowdsourcing Private Weather Station Data for Urban and Regional Climate Research” as part of the Smart City Lecture Series | 6:15 p.m. | MG1/02.06 | German |
| 02.02.26 | Dr. Nathalie von Möllendorff (Habilitation Lecture): “'The System of the Historian and the Goal of the Artist': Victor Hugo, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and the Constructed Historical Image of the Cathedral of Paris” | 6:15 p.m. | U5/02.22 | German |
| 02.02.26 | Andreas Dix: “Landscape Names as a Topic of Critical Toponymy”; further information and access link available upon request at laemmchen(at)geo.uni-frankfurt.de | German | ||
| 03.02.26 | Prof. Dr. Thomas Kersten (Professor for Photogrammetry and Laser Scanning) on his career path and the implementation of visualization in archetecture and heritage conservation | 6:30 p.m. | ZW6/01.04 | German |
| 03.02.26 | Dr. Annette Frey: “Between Marginal Note and Scholarly Letter - Archival Materials as Sources for the History of Archaeology”(279.5 KB) | 6:30 p.m. | KR12/02.18 | German |
