Year: 2017

Prof. Heiner Bielefeldt was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He thus was honored for his outstanding contribution to society and as a leading human rights expert of Germany.

Received opinion in linguistic research believed that a universal grammar did exist. Ewa Dąbrowska is one of the most prominent opponents to this approach. Now she has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. With a value of 3.5 million EUR, Dąbrowska can now continue her scientific work at FAU.

Hungry? Curious about networking with other young researchers at FAU? This is the perfect event for you: “Brown Bag Break”: October 26th, 12 to 14 pm at K3/4 at the Faculty of Engineering (Cauerstraße 11, 91058 Erlangen). A special issue of this event: „Networking without Borders“.

An informal get-together took place this summer semester within the newly formulated key research priorities of the faculty, aiming at further developing the new research foci of the Faculty, and bringing its members into closer contact to each other.

In 2017, the 500th anniversary of the Reformation will be celebrated. This provides an opportunity for curators, museologists, (art) historians and theologians to comparatively analyse the different exhibitions. A Museology Workshop is addressed to young scholars with intended careers as curators, (art) historians and theologians, who would like to work on the propagation and transfer of scholarly knowledge.

From May 20th to June 3rd the Bavarian America Academy together with Florida International University and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg presents the 9th International Summer Academy "Questions of the Archive".

FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and WACC invite applications for places at its Summer School on “Communication rights in the digitised global society. Enough waiting! For a Reformation on the non-transparent data highway!", 30 July-06 August 2017 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany.

Interested students can apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship in the Master's Programme EMLex until February 28th. This Master offers a professional training for online and print lexicography with an integrated semester abroad and an internship lasting several weeks. The teaching languages are German and English.