International

As part of the Erasmus+ Teaching Staff Mobility program, the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology is pleased to welcome Dr. Hussein Ghaddar from the American University of Beirut (AUB) as a visiting lecturer in early February. He is invited by Prof. Dr. Georges Tamer and his Chair o...

From 26 to 30 January, Leighton Williams will be a guest at FAU and will give lectures in English at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology on Māori culture, language, and Indigenous perspectives. Williams is a Senior Teaching Fellow at Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Around 60 students from numerous countries took part in Faculty Day 2025 organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology– an inspiring start to the winter semester. A warm welcome to everyone!

Make connections right from the start and get all essential information! On 9 October 2025, the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology invites its new international students to Faculty Day – a welcome event full of practical information, networking opportunities, and insights into life at the Faculty. The event aims to give our new members a warm welcome, provide an overview of the Faculty’s structures and services, and create a platform for exchange and networking.

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...

Greater opportunities in education for people with a migrant background, in particular women and girls, and breaking down barriers to accessing education: these are the focal topics in the program “Integration through education” from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Included in...

Increasing influence of anti-pluralist parties is often associated with lower academic freedom in the respective country. This is one of the findings of the latest Academic Freedom Index (AFI) which is being released March 13, 2025. Scholars of the Institute of Political Science publish the index every year in collaboration with colleagues at the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg. I

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.