Month: November 2021

On October 12, 2021, Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen was ceremonially awarded an honorary doctorate in Philosophy. Dean of the Faculty Prof. Dr. Rainer Trinczek presented her with the certificate and honoured the English Studies researcher’s achievements in science, science communication and of course at the Faculty of Humanities at FAU, with which she has been in close collaboration for decades.

Congratulations to Christina-Maria Wiesner! A graduate student in the Master’s programme of Archaeology, she has received the student prize of the German Society for Pre- and Protohistory (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, DGUF) for her Master’s thesis. The study award honours special achievements by students and thus aims to promote young academics. 

On Columbus Day on 12 October, the Washington Post published an article which cites Prof. Dr. Heike Paul. Christopher Columbus has been critically discussed for decades. As a professor of American Studies with a focus on literature studies, she explains the importance of the navigator for Anglo-Saxo...

Chinese Fengshui, ritual magic in Germany, Vodun in West Africa, or kabbalah ma´asit in Israel: practices aimed at predicting, controlling, and manipulating life events can be found almost everywhere. A research group at by FAU is now investigating and comparing these esoteric practices in a large-scale interdisciplinary project. 

The world in pictures – and more: pictorial encyclopaedias around 1500 describe the known world and beyond. A new research project at the Lehrstuhl für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (Prof. Dr. M. C. Ferrari) funded by the Manfred Roth Foundation is concerned with these fasc...