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19NOV 2019
Forschung
Heike Paul is 2020 Thomas Mann Fellow
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-American cultural and political imaginaries give rise to what […]
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10SEP 2019
International
Orientation Week for International Students
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 student led campus and city tour and an introduction to the university library. It takes place 10th – 17th October […]
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20MAY 2018
International
Success for the Erlangen DAAD ISAP programme with Duke University
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) for the academic years 2018-2022. Thus the intensive exchange with one of […]
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27FEB 2018
International
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for Prof. Dr. Heike Paul
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. Seven past prizewinners have subsequently received the Nobel Prize. Ms. Paul is one of the most renowned representatives of American Studies in Germany. In […]
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09FEB 2018
All News
Conference: Apocalyptic Otherness
From 14.-16. In February 2018, an international conference in cooperation with the University of Bern on “Apocalyptic Otherness: ‘They are Gog and Magog, gathered together for Battle’. Scyths, Arabs, or the US Army? “will take place in the Philosophical Seminar Building PSG III. The conference is funded by the DFG and organized by the FAU […]
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27OCT 2017
International
Human Rights specialist Prof. Dr. Bielefeldt honored by the President of Germany
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 the academic sector and as a leading human rights expert of Germany. With his great personal commitment and outstanding competence, […]
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