International

Just before the first Advent rolls around, the two Christian university congregations KHG and ESG are launching their ecumenical Christmas tree campaign. From 25 November, Christmas trees decorated with colourful ‘wish cards’ will be waiting on campus in the Regensburger Straße between the seminar and auditorium buildings, as well as at other FAU locations in Nuremberg.

To all postdocs at FAU: Don´t miss the next Brown Bag Break @FAU – networking for „hungry“ postdocs! When? Friday, 18 December 2020, 1 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Where? Zoom   This time, the Brown Bag Break@FAU will focus on a rather exciting but also somewhat controversial topic: Failure in ...

Our winter term is digital and sooner or later you will have to hold a presentation or do group work on Zoom! So you better be prepared and Dr. Iris Wunder, the faculty’s e-learning coordinator, will help you in being so. Take part in the new event "Let’s talk Phil-Studis" on Thursday, 12 November f...

The Global Sentimentality Project examines how the sentimental unfolds its power as an aesthetic narrative strategy, as a practice of crisis management, and as a technology of political mobilization. Our understanding of the sentimental revises the stigmatization of the term in popular parlance and extends its meaning beyond a set of literary texts. This virtual lecture series brings together scholars from around the globe in a series of talks accessible via Zoom.

Online teaching and individual face-to-face classes will be combined (hybrid semester)

A new project collects ideas of a utopian world and you can participate

In autumn 2019, Prof. Dr. Heike Paul was appointed a fellow for the Thomas Mann Fellowship 2020 and thus had the opportunity to participate in the series "55 Voices for Democracy". The series ties in with the BBC radio speeches in which Thomas Mann addressed people in Germany and its neighbouring co...

50 essays on fundamental concepts of "futurology”

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.

Researchers of the FAU, the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and the Stiftung Lesen have launched a research network with the goal of examining reading from a multitude of interdisciplinary perspectives. The so-called “Netzwerk Leseforschung” connects researchers from seven countries.