Year: 2020

FAUMUN is the Model United Nations (MUN) project of the FAU. Students take on the role of diplomats and develop solutions for current problems from the point of view of a specific country. Application is possible until August 1st.

The DFG (German Research Foundation) will fund Dr. Peter Maurits' position and his research for three years. Maurits is a research associate at the ‘Chair of American Studies: Culture and Literature', his project is titled “A Typology of African Science Fiction (2006-2018).”

As a protective measure in view of the further spreading of the corona virus, most employees are in home office. Life at FAU is being reduced in coordination with the university management and emergency operations are being maintained. Please address your inquiry by e-mail.

The programme “Geisteswissenschaften International” (Humanities International) has presented “Theoderich der Große“ (C. H. Beck 2018), written by Prof. Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, Chair of Ancient History (Alte Geschichte), with an award. Costs for a translation into English will be covered with around 25,000 Euro. Yale University Press will publish the English edition in spring 2023.

To avoid spreading of the corona virus all university libraries have been closed. As this might handicap students to write their term paper the Faculty decided to extend the deadlines by five weeks.

At least two different groups of Neanderthals lived in Southern Siberia and an international team of researchers including scientists from FAU have now proven that one of these groups migrated from Eastern Europe. The researchers have now published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

Students enjoy studying at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

The interdisciplinary project is concerned with America’s post-war re-education politics in Germany and Japan, with which the Allies intended to separate the population from fascist thought and encourage democratic awareness, as well as with the developments in the three countries after the war.

In a competitive selection process, Dr. Sandra Dinter has been admitted as a fellow to the promotion programme “the Young ZiF”. She works at the Chair of English Studies: Literature and Culture and the programme, which aims at supporting postdoc students, will be granting her financial support for four years.

For their PhD research on technological, economical or societal aspects of digitalization, Marco Blank and Mathias Harrer are receiving grants from a Bavarian programme for PhD students.