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The Faculty wishes a good start to the summer term 2023 and welcomes the new students!

From April 13 to 15, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), as a member of the European Teacher Education Network (ETEN), hosted about 200 international experts in teacher education at the Regensburger Straße campus in Nuremberg. ETEN acts as a cooperation platform for universities...

SLSAeu 2023: Models, Metaphors and Simulations. Epistemic Transformations in Literature, Science and the Arts When: May 18-21, 2023 Where: Orangerie and Senate Hall in the Kollegienhaus The conference focuses on modes of exchange between discourses and practices of knowledge production, repr...

We welcome Patricia Stuelke as a Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow at the faculty! She is guest of the English and American Studies Department, and the Global Sentimentality Project and at work on a second book, tentatively titled "Crisis, Genre, Movement" that theorizes the cultural fronts of contemporary left social movements across the Americas. 

The Dean's Office wishes you and your families a Merry Christmas and a joyous holiday season. Thank you for the excellent cooperation in the past year. We wish you health and success in the New Year. The dean's office of the faculty is closed from December 24th, 2022 to December 30th, 2022 and can ...

The Berlin underground stop "Onkel Tom’s Hütte" causes controversy. Its name is borrowed from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852 and therefore the term 'Uncle Tom' is  linked to a painful history marked by racism. A petition is now calling for the name of the sta...

In the ranking of the ‘Top 50 Start-ups’ 2021, mentalis has reached fourth place. Launched in 2018, the company offers digital follow-up care after (partial) inpatient treatment for mental illnesses and is a spin-off of the chair of Psychology I at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and The...

From now until 10 October 2022, female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology can apply for the next round of the FAU Mentoring Proramme ARIADNEphil. The 18-months programme starts in January 2023. The offer is free of charge and designed...

Two projects at the Chair of Health Psychology are receiving funding from the DFG. The project ‘FEARFALL: Chronic stress level and functional health in older adults: the impact and role of fear of falling’ was launched on 1 June 2022 and is a joint project together with the Institute for Institute f...

In summer term 2022, the faculty bids a warm welcome to all new colleagues. To a great start into your stay at FAU!   Prof. Dr. Gabriel Zeilinger has been Chair of Regional History of Bavaria and Franconia since 1 April 2022. He arrived here from Rostock University, where the Freiburg-bor...