Public Lectures & Events

All events are in German.

• Lecture Series of the Center for Medieval Studies (each at 7 p.m., An der Universität 2, room U2/00.25)
  • May 19, 2025
  • May 26, 2025
  • June 2, 2025
  • June 16, 2025
  • June 23, 2025
  • June 30, 2025
  • July 7, 2025
  • July 14, 2025
  • July 21, 2025
• Hegel Week - June 3-5 2025 from 7-9 p.m. (Dominikanerstraße 2a, Aula)
• Lecture by the Friends of the Natural History Museum Bamberg: “Dangerous Beast or Gentle Giant - What the Bones of Cave Bears from the Ice Age Reveal to Us” (June 5, 2025, 6 p.m., An der Universität 5, room U5/00.24)
• Lecture Series “Uni in the Museum” in the Historical Museum
  • Dr. Mareike Spychala: “Soldiers in the Picture: Gender and Sexuality in War Posters and Bundeswehr Ads from the 20th to the 21st Century”
  • Dr. Giuseppe Peterlini: “'Plastic Beach' Reflections on Trash as a Topic and Material of and in Art”
• Literary Discussion on the Middle Ages with the author Jean-Luc Bannalec(865.0 KB) (July 1, 2025, 6 p.m., An der Universität 5, room U5/00.24)
• Summer School “Digital Humanities and Medieval Studies”(474.5 KB) (September 22 - 26, 2025, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., An der Universität 5, room U5/02.22)
• Interdisciplinary Conference ‘Medical Humanities & Diversity Studies’ - Intersections of Medical and Diversity-Critical Discourses and Multidimensional Perspectives on Body, Psyche, Illness, and Health in Literature and Media from the 19th to the 21st Century (September 30 - October 2, 2025)
• Dies academicus (November 10, 2025, Feldkirchenstraße 21, Auditorium Maximum F21/01.57)
  • Keynote 2024 by Teresa Bücker - “Who Has Time to Save Democracy?”

• Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß, “Queering Early Modern Piracy? Anne Bonny and Mary Read in Contemporary Fiction” (June 24, 2025 at 6:15 p.m., U2/00.25)
• Prof. Dr. Carola Surkamp: “Multilinguism in Foreign Language Teaching: Concepts, Goals, Methods” (July 3, 2025, 8:30 to 10 a.m., U5/01.18)
• Conference Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today (November 20-22, 2025)
• BritCult Conference (U2/00.25)
  • November 20, 2025, 2-8 p.m.
  • November 21, 2025, 2-8 p.m.
  • November 22, 2025, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
  • Contact: Theo Lupprian
• Guest lectures at the chair of American Studies
• Guest Lectures at the chair of TEFL

All events are in German.

• Archaeological Colloquium: Guest lecture series on history, extraordinary finds, and World Heritage sites (each at 6:30 p.m., Am Kranen 12, room KR/02.18)
  • May 13, 2025
  • May 20, 2025
  • June 17, 2025
  • June 24, 2025
  • July 1, 2025
  • July 8, 2025
  • July 15, 2025
  • July 22, 2025
• Archaeology Workshop for both adults and children (Fridays from 12 to 4 p.m., room KR14/01.22, Am Kranen 14)
• The Bamberg Cathedral, the Eichstätt Cathedral, and Walter Sage (Symposium on April 11 und 12, 2025)
• Art History Evening Lecture (6 p.m., Am Kranen 12, room KR12/02.01)
  • May 15, 2025 - Dr. Rolf Quednau: “Giotto as an epochal game-changer of occidental art. Reflexions on the young Christ's expressive paralanguage”
  • May 21, 2025 - PD Dr. Henrike Haug: “Enamel - a pretty stone?”
  • July 3, 2025 - Thomas Ketelsen & Michael Venator: “Joseph Ignaz Appiani in Vierzehnheiligen and Schloss Seehof: Insights into the workshop practice of fresco artists”
• Field Archeology Workshops

• Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Marcia Pally - “The US Religious Right: Christians For and Against It - Why and What are They Doing Today?” (June 23, 2025, 6:15-7:45 p.m., U2/01.33)
  • in English
  • Contact: Prof. Dr. Thomas Wabel
• Current lectures
• Theology Forum - lecture series each winter term (October to February)

All events are in German.

• Geographical Colloquium (each from 6:15-7:45 p.m., room KR12/02.18)
  • Prof. Dr. Georg Stauch: “Eifel Reservoirs - An Archive of the Anthropocene?” (June 5, 2025)
  • Prof. Günter Müller-Czygan: “Sponge City - Urban Development in Times of Climate Change” (June 26, 2025)
• Historical Geography Bamberg e.V:
  • July 24, 2025: Annual General Meeting (followed by closing celebration at the Wilde Rose Cellar)
  • August 28 – September 6, 2025: Lithuania Excursion (Vilnius–Kaunas–Klaipėda)
  • December 2025: Historical-Geographical Christmas Party at Klosterbräu Bamberg
  • Further information about the events on Instagram
• Events and lectures in cooperation with the Southeast Europe Society e.V.

All events are in German.

• Lecture series “From Tragedy to Coming-of-Age Film: Variations on the Collision of the World and the Self" by PD Dr. phil. habil. Felix Lenz(225.5 KB)
  • From 6:15 to 8 p.m. respectively, U7/01.05
  • “Everything will be fine (2015): Maturation through Guilt as a Journey Through All Colors” (26.06.25)
  • “The Tree of Life (2011): Job! Or the Search for Comprehensive Maturation" (03.07.25)
  • “Wild Strawberries (1957): Ritual, Subjectivity, Intergenerational Progress” (10.07.25)
• Three poetics lectures in which Alina Bronsky introduces her work and writing (each in room U2/00.25, An der Universität 2), on the following dates:
  • Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
  • Thursday, July 24, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
  • Following the lecture series, a research colloquium on the work of Alina Bronsky in cooperation with the International Artists' House Villa Concordia will take place: July 23-25, 2025
    further information and contact
• For regular updates on events organized by the chair for Newer German Literary Studies, please contact lehrstuhl.germ-lit1(at)uni-bamberg.de referencing "Literatur in der Universität".

All events are in German.

• International guest lecture series in European Ethnology: THROUGH EXCLUSION Processes? Perspectives on Social Inequality
  • Prof. Francis Seeck (Nuremberg): “Classism. The Forgotten Form of Discrimination?” (May 12, 2025, 6:15 p.m., An der Universität 5, room U5/02.22)
  • Laura Bäumel, M.A. (Zurich): “Lifestyle Revisited. A Feminist Update Against the Backdrop of Precarious Working and Living Conditions Today” (June 17, 2025, 6:15 p.m., Hochzeitshaus, Am Kranen 12, room KR12/00.16)
  • Felix Gaillinger, M.A. (Vienna): “(With) Class in European Ethnology. Biographical Notes and Analitical Consequences” (July 8, 2025, 6:15 p.m., Markusstraße 8a, room MG1/02.06)
• Guest lectures of the chair of History and Culture of Late Antiquity:
  • Prof. Dr. Anna Heller: “Présentation du livre L’âge d’or des bienfaiteurs. Titres honorifiques et sociétés civiques dans l’Asie Mineure d’époque romaine, Genève, 2020” (11.06.25)
  • Dr. George Woudhuysen: “Readers of Tacitus in the Later Roman Empire” (16.07.25)
• Exhibitions by the Institute for Franconian History:

  • Living through Upheaval: Bavaria 1918-1925. Between Democracy, Self-Determination, and Violence (March 15 - June 1, 2025)

     

• Conferences
  • Conference “Narrated Gender / Narrating Gender” (March 13-14, 2025)
• Theological Forum - Lecture series each winter term (October to February)

• Bavarian Orient-Colloquium (Thursdays starting April 24, 2025, 6:15 p.m. (c.t.), Schillerplatz 17, room SP17/00.13)
  • May 22 (3:00–7:00 p.m.): Workshop “Arabic, Javanese, and Malay Islamic Literature in Southeast Asia and the Diaspora” (English)
    • Prof. Nico Kaptein: “Ahmad Khatib Minangkabau (1860-1916) on Circumcision”
    • Prof. Edwin Wieringa: “On the Road for Adventure, Knowledge, and Love: Classical Javanese Narrative Poems on Wandering Students of Islam”
    • Prof. Patrick Franke: “Shafik Efendi and Faridah Hanom: Sheikh al-Hadi's first novel as a plea for a reform of Islamic sexual ethics”
    • Dr. Philipp Bruckmayr: “The Printing of kitab jawi in the Hejaz, Istanbul and Cairo”
  • June 5: “The Role of Poetry in the Literature of Cyprus in Turkish language” (German)
  • June 12: “Discipline and Punish: On the Practice of Regulating Public Morality in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” (German)
  • June 26: “Queering Islamic Art: Gender Diversity and the Critique of Sexual Normativity in Contemporary Art of the MENA Region” (German)

All events are in German if not stated otherwise.

• De Arte et Scientia: Thought and Creation in the Middle Ages
  • All lectures take place at 6 p.m., room U2/00.25, in German
  • Dr. Nathalie-Josephine von Möllendorff: “On the Philosophical Foundation of Medieval Music Theory” (28.05.25)
  • Dr. Cleophea Ferrari: “Religion as a Reflection of Philosophy: Neoplatonism in the Islamic Middle Ages” (18.06.25)
  • Prof. Dr. Gregor Nickel: “On the Role of Mathematics for Galileo Galilei's and Nikolaus von Kues' Philosophy” (02.07.25)
  • Prof. Dr. Marko Fuchs: “On the Topicality Nikolaus von Kues' Reasoning” (09.07.25)
• Summer Party on July 7, 2025 starting at 7 p.m. (Färbergasse 28)
• Philosophical Night Café (monthly at 7 p.m. respectively, Färbergasse 28)
  • 25.06.25: “What means: thinking pragmatically?”(106.0 KB)
  • 30.07.25: “One person's freedom ends where another person's freedom begins”
  • Contact: Dr. Jens Wimmers

• Guest lectures at the chair of Romance Literature (Spanish)
  • Dr. Philipp Kampschroer (Universidade Católica Portuguesa): “Schiller in Portugal: A Handwritten Translation of Wilhelm Tell from 1848” (June 3, 2025; 6:15 p.m., room U2/02.04; German)
  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Kurz (Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico): “The Transformation of the Commited Author Nelly Campobello into a Representative of an Innocent Girl's Perspective or a Naïve Witness to the Events of the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1917” (provisional title) (June 3, 2025; German)

• Guest lectures
  • Ars moriendi in Socialism. The Topos of the „Good Death“ in Hungarian Literature, 1960–1980 (Mai 27, 2025, 6:15-7:45 p.m., U2/02.04)
• Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Christian Zehnder: Between Podolia and Berne. The Age of Major Transformation and the Idea of a Cultural Landscape in the Work of Jerzy Stempowski (July 1, 2025, 6-8 p.m., U2/00.25)
• Conference SlavArt (Obere Karolinenstraße 8, room OK8/02.04)
  • January 22, 2026, 12-2 p.m. and 6-8 p.m.
  • January 23, 2026, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
  • Contact: Prof. Dr. Jeanette Fabian
• Lectures and events organized by the Southeast Europe Society, Bamberg branch