Month: February 2018

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) honors Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, chair of American Studies, with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2018. The Leibniz Prize is the most significant research prize in Germany. In addition to her scientific achievements, the award also recognizes her high level of international visibility and her outstanding role as a transatlantic networker.

From 14.-16. In February 2018, an international conference on "Apocalyptic Otherness: 'They are Gog and Magog, gathered together for Battle'. Scyths, Arabs, or the US Army? "will take place. The conference hosts internationally top-level scholars and will deal with the biblical origins of the Gog-und-Magog motif and its further reception and development in the Occident.