International

Prof. Dr. Vincent C. Müller was selected for a Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence – Germany’s most valuable research award – and will be receiving a call to FAU. Negotiations will begin shortly; if they are successful, the prize will be awarded in 2022. For FAU, this is the fifth suc...

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.

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. 

Political Science has often been blind to political developments and changes beyond political centers as it focused almost exclusively on the national level. A new edited volume from the DFG-funded project on Decentralization in the Arab world at Erlangen’s Institute of Political Science now helps t...

She is researching late Latin texts and she is a Humboldt research fellow: In this last part of the “Women in Research” series, meet Dr. Helen Kaufmann, Visiting Scientist at FAU at Prof. Dr. Christoph Schubert’s Chair of Classical Philology (Latin) since January 2020. “Latin had been my favourite s...

The app which was developed in the Erasmus+ project ‘CIELL’ has reached the finale of the ELTons Innovation Awards in the category Digital Innovation. Out of 150 submissions from 50 countries, the app with FAU participation is in the finale with six other contestants. Winners will be announced in No...

Together with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Prof. Maria Rentetzi has produced a video that takes the corona pandemic as a starting point to wonder why diplomacy is so important for global health and how the WHO became a major player in health diplomacy.

Community masks (in German: Alltagsmasken) have become both a steady companion in day-to-day life as well as a key part in how the Covid-19 pandemic is being addressed culturally. Exactly this aspect is what Annerose Böhrer and Dr. Marie-Kristin Döbler from the Institute of Sociology are concerned w...

Dr. Krisztina Kovács of the Hungarian Szeged University is spending the winter term teaching and researching at the Institut für Grundschulforschung. Her stay is being funded by the DAAD’s programme for funding foreign guest lecturers (Förderung ausländischer Gastdozenten zu Lehrtätigkeiten an deutschen Hochschulen), which Dr. Günter Renner of the institute has successfully applied for.