The Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), in cooperation with the Kommission Alltagskulturforschung für Westfalen, is awarding this year's Karl Zuhorn Prize (LWL Science Prize) in the category promoting young researchers to the cultural anthropologist Julius Virnyi. He receives the prize, endowed with EUR 10,000, for his research into academic honours and name changes in the field of historical research into everyday culture.

In a public panel discussion on 9 July 2025, Dr. Franziska Davies and Dr. Kateryna Rietz-Rakul, moderated by Eastern European historian Prof. Dr Ricarda Vulpius, will shed light on the very heterogeneous German positions on Russia's war against Ukraine. In addition to the failings of German society with regard to Ukraine, the discussion will also look at the particularities of the perception of the war in Ukraine in East and West Germany.

At the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era, there were more than 1,000 houses and facilities in what is now Germany where leprosy patients lived and were cared for, as in Münster-Kinderhaus. The Society for Leprosy Studies (GfL) has set itself the task of collecting information on these places. In an open-air lecture at the SchlauRaum Festival, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner will present a GfL project for the online presentation of the research results.

As a gesture of appreciation, the Museum of Thessaloniki is providing the Archaeological Museum with a consecration relief on long-term loan. The exciting artefact from the 1st century BC will be ceremonially handed over on 25 June 2025 at 5:45 pm. Afterwards, Dr. Kalliopi Chatzinikolaou will give a lecture on “Ancestral Cults of the Macedonians through the Royal Minting” as part of the Karl Lehmann Hartleben Lectures. All interested parties are cordially invited to attend.

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Cyprus Studies will reopen with a ceremony in Lecture Hall F5 (Fürstenberghaus, Domplatz 20–22) on Thursday, 3 July 2025. The event will begin at 5 pm. It will be followed by a reception in the Archaeological Museum. All interested parties are cordially invited. Registration is requested.

As part of the lecture series “Heritage Conservation as a Profession”, the Institute of Art History, in collaboration with the LWL-Denkmalpflege, Landschafts- und Baukultur in Westfalen, invites you to a lecture by Prof Dr Hiltrud Kier (Bonn). The former Cologne City Conservator and former General Director of the Museums of the City of Cologne will speak on 18 June 2025 in Lecture Hall 102 of the Philosophikum under the title “Denkmalpflege in Köln war nie langweilig”. The lecture begins at 6 pm c.t..

The third conference of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA) on 11 to 13 June 2025 at the University of Münster is dedicated to questions of mental health, education and upbringing. “This year's conference will focus on the interfaces between psychological anthropology and anthropological psychology,” explains organiser Prof. Dr Thomas Stodulka. The conference will also highlight perspectives on the diversification and decolonisation of research methods and curricula. Interested parties are welcome. Registration is required. The conference language is English.

Body and religion are closely linked. The human body, which is the most direct level of human experience, is used to express and project religious ideas. For example, ablutions, head coverings, gender roles and body modifications are often religiously charged and integrated into a religious frame of reference. This volume brings together various disciplines that address the topic from a global and time-spanning perspective.
Published in 2025 by Ergon; ISBN: 978-3-98740-179-4