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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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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. Lena Zudrell: “Illness and Physical Disability in the Tristan Tradition”4 p.m.U5/00.24German
16.11.2026Dr. Daniela Wagner: “Knowledge in Glass: The Stained-Glass Windows of St. Dionys in Esslingen”6 p.m.U5/02.22German
16.11.2026Dr. Paulo Gatica Cote: “Doña Bárbara y La ley del Llano: una lectura en contrapunto del capítulo 'Algún día será verdad'”(106.6 KB)6:15 p.m.U2/02.27Spanish
17.11.2026Prof. Dr. Barbara Wittmann: “Gender Medicine: Cultural Studies Perspectives on Feminist Approaches, Body Norms and Historical Developments”10:15 a.m.U5/02.18German
17.11.2026Sarah Busch, M.A.: “Postcolonial Crisicism of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre”2:15 p.m.LU19/00.08English
17.11.2026Dr. Mareike Spychala & Sarah Busch, M.A.: “Who's Afraid of Gender and Queer Studies? Gender and Queer Studies Against Fascism” (Workshop)6:15 p.m.U5/01.22English
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
18.11.2026Sarah Busch, M.A.: “Racism and Minstrelsy in Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon (1859)”10:15 a.m.LU19/00.08English
18.11.2026

As part of the Sustainability Festival: 

Prof. Dr. Barbara Wittmann: “European Ethnology in Schools: Home and Belonging? It Depends”

 

Please register here!

12:15 p.m.

U5/02.18

 

German
18.11.2026Martina Ebenberger, Nicole Gumbrecht & Michelle Zirkel: “Diversity-Sensitive Language Against Fascism”12 to 1 p.m.LU19/00.09English
18.11.2026Guided tours of the exhibition “Quiet Demonstration, Loud Stone: Diversity and Contradictions in Protest” with Simeon Göll4 and 5 p.m.Meeting point on the third floor of U5German
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
19.11.2026

As part of the Sustainability Festival: 

Monika Bäuerlein: “I'm packing my suitcase… European Ethnological Perspectives on Tourism”

 

Please register here!

10:15 a.m.OnlineGerman
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
19.11.2026Reading and discussion with Laura Röseler and Andreas F. Kelletat on the poetry collection An die Deutschen by Jewish writer Juliette Pary (426.1 KB, 2 pages)6 p.m.U5/01.22German
19.11.2026Dr. Mareike Spychala: “Black Anti-Fascist Writing”6 to 7:30 p.m.U5/01.18English
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
19.11.2026Presentation of Roland Borgard's Büchners Tiere. Ein Bestiarium. (Büchner's Animals: A Bestiary)8 p.m.U5/01.22German
20.11.2026

International Workshop: “Theorizing and Practizing Symbols after Symbolism in Twentieth-Century Russian and Soviet Literature and Philosophie”

 

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starting at 9 a.m.OK8/02.04English
20.11.2026

As part of the Sustainability Festival: 

Dr. Barbara Vollmer & Frank Brümmel: “Field Trip to the Traditional Irrigation Meadows as a Learning Opportunity: Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Development in Schools”

 

Please register here!

10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Gosberg station: 11:15 a.m. to 2:24 p.m.;

departure from Bamberg railway station at 10:39 a.m.; return at 2:52 p.m.

 

German
21.11.2026

International Workshop: “Theorizing and Practizing Symbols after Symbolism in Twentieth-Century Russian and Soviet Literature and Philosophie”

 

→ program

starting at 9:30OK8/02.04English
21.11.2026Prof. Dr. Patrizia Noel & Prof. Dr. Julia Schlüter: “Delving into AI-induced language change: Korpus- und textlinguistische Untersuchungen zu den Wissenschaftssprachen Deutsch und Englisch”10:15 a.m.LU19/00.09English
23.11.2026PD Dr. Gaia Gubbini: “Tristan, Isolde and the Physiology of Passion in Medieval Romance Literatures”6 p.m.U5/02.22German
23.11.2026Moritz Bauernfeind: “On the 200 year anniversary of Rabbi Wolf Rosenfeld's taking office”7 p.m.U2/00.25German
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
25.11.2026PD Dr. Elisa Kriza: “Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Jewish Struggle for Survival in Maurice Schwartz' Yiddish-Language Film Tevye (1939)”6:15 p.m.U5/01.17German
26.11.2026Maximilian Hubert, M.A.: “Of Kings, Presidents, and Defenestrations: Prague Castle”2 p.m.KR10/03.03German
26.11.2026Dr. Ludger Brenner: “Biodiversity, Nature Conservation and Ecotourism in Mexico”6:15 p.m.KR12/02.18German
27.11.2026

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

  • Raymond De Luca: “Bolshevik Elephants: A History of Russia's Elephantine Politics”
  • Katya Nikitina: “Inventing the Vegetarian Body: Digestion, Labor, Motherhood, and Other Forms of Living Well”
6 p.m.Please register to receive the zoom-link to particpateEnglish
27.11.2026Martin Ammermann und Elke Döhler: “The Bamberg Volkspark: A Look at its Origins and Current Situation”7 - 8:30 p.m.U5/01.22German
30.11.2026Prof. Dr. Simone Schultz-Baluff: “Hunting Nuns and Hunting - Nuns who Hunt? Tracing Hunting Activities in the Women's Convents of Lüneburg (15th/16th Centuries)”6:15 p.m.U5/02.22German
01.12.2026Assoz.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerald Grabherr & Dr. Barbara Kainrath: "Ivory in a Marble Shrine: Recent Findings on Late Antiquity at Burgbichl in Irschen"6:30 p.m.KR12/02.18German
01.12.2026Dr. Wolfgang Undorf: “Georg Arnold in Sweden. Music without Borders”7 p.m.Zoom, Meeting-Passcode SBB#26German
01.12.2026Book Recommendation Night7:30 p.m.ETA Hoffmann TheaterGerman
02.12.2026Prof. Dr. Barbara Hahn: “'Under Fading Stars'. Margarete Susman in the 20th Century”6 p.m.U2/01.33German
03.12.2026Dr. Amin Moradi und Maryam Moeini, M.A.: "Medieval Fortifications in Armenia, Northwestern Iran and Eastern Anatolia - A Reflection of a Shared History?"2 p.m.KR10/03.03German
03.12.2026Ulrike Heitmüller: “Supporting the Process of Leaving Christian Fundamentalist Groups”6:15 p.m.U2/00.25German
07.12.2026Dr. habil. Alexandru Anca: “Finding a Voice, Denying a Voice: Speech and Power in the Western Mediterranean Region”6:15 p.m.U5/02.22German
08.12.2026Prof. Dr. Caroline Emmelius: “Mary Magdalene vs. Clare: Books of Saints' Lives from the Nuremberg Poor Clares”7 p.m.Zoom, Meeting-Passcode SBB#26German
09.12.2026Prof. Dr. Elisa Klapheck: “Margarete Susman and her Jewish Contribution to Political Philosophy”6:15 p.m.ZoomGerman
09.12.2026PD Dr. Dr. Matthias Scherbaum: “Johannes Scotus Eriugena and the Bamberg Periphyseon”6:15 p.m.U2/00.25German
10.12.2026Dr. Christian Karl Frey: “European Perspectives in Castle Studies”2 p.m.KR10/03.03German

Regular activities during term

The following offers are in German if not indicated otherwise.