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Peter Stamm am Lesepult seiner Lesung bei vollem HörsaalKartsen Becker/Universität Bamberg
Poetikprofessur der Germanistik - Lesung mit Peter Stamm

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!
→ events in June

→ view the lectures and events of our chairs
→ interdisciplinary offers

Regular Activities

Events by the Institute of Philosophy (German)

  • Reading group on Hegel's “Science of Logic”

In June of 2025 ...

DateEventTimeRoomLanguage
16.06.25Prof. Dr. Andreas Huth: “Means: Othering. Exhibitions of Premodern European Art as Stagings of the ‘Distant and Strange’”7 p.m.U2/00.25German
17.06.25Prof. Charlotte Taylor: “Emotion talk in UK parliamentary debates”10 a.m.OK8/01.26English
17.06.25Dr. Monika Konert-Panek: “English accents in pop music”2 p.m.OK8/02.04English
17.06.25Prof. (em.) Dr. Philip Martin: “Trump 2.0 and Migration”6:15 p.m.U2/01.33English
17.06.25Dr. Valerie Palmowski M.A.: “Continuity and Change in the Inden-Pier Region Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”6:30 p.m.KR12/02.18German
17.06.25Laura Bäumel, M.A.: “Revisiting Lifestyle. A Feminist Update in the Context of Precarious Work and Living Conditions Today”6:15 p.m.KR12/00.16German
17.06.25Markus Thielemann & Agnes Bruner: “Von Norden rollt ein Donner” ("From the North Rolls a Thunder"), Reading and Conversation with the Author and Editor6:15 p.m.U2/00.25German
18.06.25Dr. Cleophea Ferrari: “Religion as a Reflection of Philosophy: Neoplatonism in the Islamic Middle Ages”6 p.m.U2/00.25German
23.06.25Prof. Dr. Marcia Pally: “The US Religious Right: Christians For and Against It - Why and What are They Doing Today”6:15 p.m.U2/01.33English
23.06.25Prof. Dr. Konstantin Lindner: “Deducing Religious Testimonies in Public Spaces. ‘Religious Landscaping’ as a Contribution to Cultural Participation”7 p.m.U2/00.25German
24.06.25Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß: “Queering Early Modern Piracy? Anne Bonny and Mary Read in Contemporary Fiction”6:15 p.m.U2/00.25English
24.06.25Prof. Dr. Philipp W. Stockhammer: “Genes and Practices: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Early Bronze Age Societies in the Lech Valley”6:30 p.m.KR12/02.18German
25.05.25Creative Afternoon with the motto “Shaping the Future Together” - Creation of banners for the Bamberg CSD and discussion of how we can make the university more fair for everyonestarting 5 p.m.Kiosk Kunni (Kunigundendamm 67)German/English
25.06.25Dr. Gerhard Stamer: Aristoteles book presentation6-8 p.m.U2/00.26German
25.06.25Alina Bronsky: Poetics Lecture (introduction to her work)6 p.m.U2/00.25German
26.06.25Prof. Günter Müller-Czygan: “Sponge City - Urban Development in Times of Climate Change”6:15 p.m.KR12/02.18German
26.06.25Prof. Charlotte Bank: “Queering Islamic Art: Gender Diversity and Criticism of Sexual Normativity in Contemporary Art from the MENA-Region”6:15 p.m.SP17/00.13German
26.06.25Prof. Dr. Dorothea Sattler: “Ecumenical Theology. Present Perspectives and Fields of Work.”4-6 p.m.ZoomGerman
26.06.25PD Dr. phil. habil. Felix Lenz in the context of the lecture series “From Tragedy to Coming-of-Age Film: Variations on the Collision of the World and the Self”: “Everything will be fine (2015): Maturation Through Guilt as a Journey Through All Colors"(225.5 KB)6:15-8 p.m.U7/01.05German

Interdisciplinary Offers

All events are in German.

English and American Studies

Archaeological Sciences, Heritage Studies, and Art History

All events are in German.

Protestant Theology

  • 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)
  • Current lectures
  • Theology Forum - lecture series each winter term (October to February)

Geography

All events are in German.

German Studies

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".

History / European Ethnology

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:

Catholic Theology

Communication Studies

Middle Eastern and Oriental Studies

  • 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)

Classical Philology & Philosophy

  • 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)

Romance Studies

  • 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)

Slavic Studies