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27.02.2025	4th Colloquium On Latin America Winter Term 2024/25 - Closing Ceremony
25.11.2024	4th Colloquium On Latin America Winter Term 2024/25
21.11.2024	Religious Plurality in Africa: Book presentation and discussion with Kai Kresse
04.11.2024	New publication on specialised didactics & conceptual learning
23.10.2024	Event series (in german) "Dynamiken des Antisemitismus" - first lecture
14.10.2024	Introductory events for the first-year students - winter term 2024/2025
26.09.2024	M.A. African Studies: extended application deadline until September 26, 2024 for German/EU applicants
25.07.2024	Climate protection contribution Event 2023: Certificate
10.07.2024	Final conference oft the project „Religion Literacy“
25.06.2024	Guest lecture of Dr. David Motadel
06.06.2024	A warm welcome, Dr. Justice Arthur!
04.06.2024	Book launch event with Dr. Benedikt Römer: "The Iranian Christian Diaspora - Religion and Nationhood in Exile"
17.01.2024	Guest Lecture of Dr. Ken Chitwood
14.12.2023	Bavarian Culture Prize 2023
07.11.2023	2nd Colloquium On Latin America Winter Term 2023/24
07.11.2023	Guest Lecture of Prof. Dr. Füsun Alver
12.10.2023	Semester opening - winter semester 2023/2024
20.07.2023	Farewell lecture of Prof. Dr. Christoph Bochinger
19.07.2023	Movie "Strangers to Peace", Colleen Alena O'Brien (University of Saarland)
05.07.2023	"Das koloniale Bayreuth - Warum es uns auch heute noch betrifft", Bayreuther Stadtgespräch
30.06.2023	Symposium "Alawis (Arab Alevis) in Turkey and Germany: History and Current Status"
28.06.2023	"Anthropology and politics. The current situation in Peru viewed through anthropological concepts" - Lecture of Karoline Noack (University of Bonn)
21.06.2023	Redeemed, reborn, forgiven. Conversions to evangelicalism in the context of violence and civil wars in Latin America - Lecture of Ariane Kovac (University of Leipzig)
20.06.2023	Guest Lecture of Prof. Robert Launay
14.06.2023	Mafone – dance theatre for knowledge co-creation - Lecture of Valerie Gruber & Gilbert Shang Ndi (University of Bayreuth)
31.05.2023	Science Diplomacy between Bavaria and Latin America: The case of BAYLAT and its work in science and academic cooperation - Lecture of Irma de Melo-Reiners and Ricardo Hagn (FAU / BAYLAT)
24.05.2023	“The City that Perfumed the World” - Initial Insights Towards a Global History of Vanilla in Twentieth-Century Papantla, Mexico - Lecture of Francisco Lopez Vallejo (University of Bayreuth)
17.05.2023	"Cosmopolitical battles for good health in the Andes: epidemics, colonialism, and indigenous resistance in the 16th century" - Lecture of Manuel Benza Llatas (University of Bayreuth)
10.05.2023	"Messy, Heterogeneous, and Distinct: Lived Religion in Latin America Today" - Guest Lecture of Prof. Gustavo Morello (Boston College)
14.04.2023	Semester opening - summer semester 2023
12.04.2023	Job advertisment: Research Associate (m/f/d)
09.11.2022	Introduction of our new secretary Daniela Jahreiß
20.10.2022	Projekt funding concerning the critical discussion with African Studies in Germany
19.10.2022	Semester opening - winter semester 2022/2023
06.10.2022	Introductory events for first-year students - Winter Semester 2022/2023
19.05.2022	Introduction of our new Research Associate Maria Papenfuss
22.04.2022	Introduction of our new Junior Professor Dr. Benjamin Kirby
01.04.2022	Sabbatical semester – Prof. Dr. Christoph Bochinger
31.03.2022	Introductory events for first-year students - Summer Semester 2022
15.02.2022	Secretariat Prof. Bochinger has moved
19.01.2022	Public Online Panel Discussion "With the Help of God(s)? Religious Actors and Sustainable Development in Africa"
11.10.2021	Introduction of our new Research Associate Mariam Goshadze
01.10.2021	Introductory events for first-year students - Winter Semester 2021/2022
09.09.2021	Sabbatical semester – Prof. Dr. Eva Spies
05.07.2021	International Research Collaboration of the Bayreuth Humboldt Centre 2021
20.04.2021	Introduction of Our New Colleagues
23.03.2021	Job Ad: Study of Religion with a Focus on Africa (Full Time Position)
09.06.2020	Research Colloquium - Drinking the Written Qur’an – writing a diffractive ethnography
20.04.2020	Introduction of our Substitute Professor - Dr. Katharina Wilkens
02.04.2020	Sabbatical semester – Prof. Dr. Eva Spies

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