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Partnering with the International Max Planck Research School “Global Multiplicity” (IMPRS-GM), FAU professors Katrin Kinzelbach (Chair of Human Rights Politics) and Dominik Müller (Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology) inaugurated an interdisciplinary IMPRS doctoral research group called Human Rights Now – How?

How does the UN work? What does the work of a diplomat look like? How do States resolve current conflicts of the world? If you are a student and find these questions interesting, FAUMUN is the perfect project for you. FAUMUN is the Model United Nations (MUN) project of the FAU. Students take on t...

With the funding measure ‘Regional Expansion of China Expertise in Science (Regio-China)’, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) aims to disseminate and deepen China expertise in the German scientific landscape. One of the projects is ‘KoWinChi - Competent scientific interaction with China’, which the Chair of Sinology with a focus on the intellectual and cultural history of China at FAU has successfully acquired as a joint project with the University of Würzburg.

Academic freedom today is not available for 3.6 billion people, or 45.5 percent of the world’s population. After a global peak in academic freedom in 2006, the situation today is comparable to circumstances fifty years ago in 1973. This is one of the results of the 2024 Update of the Academic Freedo...

The popular program FAUmentoring ARIADNEphil is starting its next round in October 2024! Until 31st March 2024, female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, and habilitation candidates from the Faculty of Humanities and Theology can apply for admission to the 18-month mentoring program. The free offer is aimed at promising female early-career researchers who aspire to an academic career.

The European Master's in Lexicography (EMLex) at FAU has received funding from the European Union for the third time as part of the Erasmus Mundus programme. The aim of the programme is to promote mobility for learners and transnational cooperation. The EMLex has been offered at FAU since 2010. S...

Within the framework of the current target agreements 2023-2027, the Women's representative offer a coaching: Female scholars at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology are invited to apply for the individual career Coaching 2024. In addition, there is a funding for guest lectures b...

The Dean’s Office wishes you and your families a Merry Christmas and restful holidays. We would like to thank you for the good and trusting cooperation. We wish you health and success in 2024. The dean’s office of the faculty is closed from December 27th, 2023 to January 5th, 2024 and can be reac...

Once again, FAU has successfully demonstrated its strength in innovation and research. In the current funding round, the University has succeeded in winning not one, but two more Humboldt professorships. One of them goes to Linguist and mathematician Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, who analyzes linguis...

The Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures.” of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg now keeps you updated with its own newsletter! On a quarterly basis, the RTG will inform interested parties (both in German and English) ab...