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Don’t forget about your semester fees! Between 3rd and 10th February 2020, all students have to re-register for the upcoming summer semester. Bank details and other important information can be found online. The fee for the summer semester is 118 Euro.

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.

You are a postdoc at FAU and would like to meet other postdocs from different faculties and disciplines? You have always wondered how to write a successful application for external funding? Then come to the next Brown Bag Break @FAU – networking for „hungry“ postdocs on 12th February 2020!

Elisabeth Bronfen is closely connected to the Faculty of Humanties, Social Sciences, and Theology.

Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, chair of American studies, has been selected by the Thomas Mann House Advisory Board as one of the twelve fellows for 2020. During her six-month stay at Thomas Mann’s former Los Angeles residence, she will investigate which narratives, practices, and iconographies in European-A...

An orientation week before the start of the lectures helps international newbies of the English taught Master programmes in the humanities and social sciences to have an easy start in Erlangen. It includes workshops, a campus and city tour and an introduction to the university library.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has granted funding of 310,000 euros to finance the Cooperation between the Erlangen Institute of Political Science and the Department of Political Science at Duke University within the framework of the International Study and Training Partnership (ISAP) f...

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) honors Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, chair of American Studies, with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2018. The Leibniz Prize is the most significant research prize in Germany. In addition to her scientific achievements, the award also recognizes her high level of international visibility and her outstanding role as a transatlantic networker.

From 14.-16. In February 2018, an international conference on "Apocalyptic Otherness: 'They are Gog and Magog, gathered together for Battle'. Scyths, Arabs, or the US Army? "will take place. The conference hosts internationally top-level scholars and will deal with the biblical origins of the Gog-und-Magog motif and its further reception and development in the Occident.

Prof. Heiner Bielefeldt was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He thus was honored for his outstanding contribution to society and as a leading human rights expert of Germany.