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15NOV 2021
International
DFG funds research group on esoteric practices
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. The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be supporting […]
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15NOV 2021
Research
Project on pictorial encyclopaedias from the early 16th century receives funding
The world in pictures – and more: pictorial encyclopaedias around 1500 describe the known world and beyond. A new research project at the Lehrstuhl für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (Prof. Dr. M. C. Ferrari) funded by the Manfred Roth Foundation is concerned with these fascinating works. The cheque will be ceremoniously handed over at a press […]
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05OCT 2021
International
New publication: Open Access Research Volume on Decentralization in the Middle East
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 to diminish these caveats. The authors of the contribution widen […]
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22SEP 2021
Research
A warm welcome to Prof. Dr. Andre Pittig
The faculty is pleased to welcome Dr. Andre Pittig who has been professor for translational Psychotherapy at the Institute of Psychology since May. He comes from Würzburg university, where he was head of the research group “Cognitive Control in the Context of Stress and Health” and received the research award of the Faculty of Human […]
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22SEP 2021
Research
DFG funds continuation of project “ConKids” concerned with socialisation in an ever-changing media environment
Together with the Leibnitz Institute for Media Research, a team at the Chair of Educational Science (Lehrstuhl für Pädagogik mit dem Schwerpunkt Medienpädagogik) led by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kammerl is researching how digital media change the way children grow up. The project “Sozialisation in einer sich wandelnden Medienumgebung – ConKids” (approximated: socialisation in a changing media environment) is now entering its second phase funded by the German Research […]Together with the Leibnitz Institute for Media Research, a team at the Chair of Educational Science (Lehrstuhl für Pädagogik mit dem Schwerpunkt Medienpädagogik) led by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kammerl is researching how digital media change the way children grow up. The project “Sozialisation in einer sich wandelnden Medienumgebung – ConKids” (approximated: socialisation in a changing media environment) is now entering its second phase funded by the German Research […]
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19AUG 2021
Study
Teaching in winter term 2021
Welcome to the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology! Winter term 2021/22 officially starts on 18 October, and planning is underway. Regardless of whether you are an “Ersti” beginning your studies or already in a higher semester: The individual programmes, institutes and service institutions of the faculty are here to support you. You can […]
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