Public Lectures & Events

All events are in German.

• Center for Medieval Studies:
  • Summer School “Digital Humanities and Medieval Studies”(474.5 KB) (September 22 - 26, 2025, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., An der Universit?t 5, room U5/02.22)
  • Workshop “Sound (in) Short Narrative” (October 1-3, 2025)
  • Medieval Studies Advanced Seminar open for all interested parties (October 13, 2025 - February 6, 2026), organized by Prof. Dr. Stephan Albrecht, Prof. Dr. Klaus van Eickels, Prof. Dr. Norbert K?ssinger, Prof. Dr. Gesine Mierke & Prof. Dr. Rainer Schreg
  • Online Lecture Series on the Bamberg Book Histories
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium: Joint medieval studies colloquium of the universities of Bamberg, Bayreuth, Gie?en, Chemnitz, Karlsruhe, and Braunschweig in Gie?en (December 5-7, 2025)
  • “Horae Bambergenses” - Intensive Course in Medieval Latin (February 25-28, 2026)
  • Medieval Literature Dialogue with Felicitas Hoppe and Tilman Spreckelsen (February 2026)
• 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, Feldkirchenstra?e 21, Auditorium Maximum F21/01.57)
  • Keynote 2024 by Teresa Bücker - “Who Has Time to Save Democracy?”

• 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
• “Black History Month: The writer of childrens' books Regina Feldmann presents her work” (in cooperation with the chair of Modern German Literary Studies); 28.01.26, 4-6 p.m., U2/00.25
• Guest lectures at the chair of American Studies
• Guest Lectures at the chair of TEFL

All events are in German if not indicated otherwise.

• Contribution to the online lecture series “Digital Imaging & the Preservation of Tangible Cultural Heritage” in October 2025, in English
• Habilitation lecture of Dr. Carmen Enss (18.11.25, 5:45 p.m. to 9 p.m., U2/00.25)
• Archaeology Workshop for both adults and children (Fridays from 12 to 4 p.m., room KR14/01.22, Am Kranen 14)
• Field Archeology Workshops

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

All events are in German if not indicated otherwise.

• Historical Geography Bamberg e.V:
  • December 2025: Historical-Geographical Christmas Party at Klosterbr?u Bamberg
  • Further information about the events on Instagram
• Events and lectures in cooperation with the Southeast Europe Society e.V.
  • Online-exhibition within the 61st International Academic Week: “Wind of Change? Academic and Artistic Perspectives on Experiences of Change in Southeast Europe” (18.09.25, 12 p.m. via Zoom, in English)

All events are in German.

• “Black History Month: The writer of childrens' books Regina Feldmann presents her work” (in cooperation with the chair of American Studies); 28.01.26, 4-6 p.m., U2/00.25
• Three poetics lectures in which Alina Bronsky introduces her work and writing (each in room U2/00.25, An der Universit?t 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 Universit?t".

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 Universit?t 5, room U5/02.22)
  • Laura B?umel, 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., Markusstra?e 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’?ge 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.

• Philosophical Night Café (monthly at 7 p.m. respectively, F?rbergasse 28)
  • 17.09.25: Character development - is that possible?
  • 15.10.25: Can we understand each other?
  • 05.11.25: The vulnerable human - Weakness or strength?
  • 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 Na?ve 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 Karolinenstra?e 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