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To all postdocs at FAU: Don´t miss the next Brown Bag Break @FAU – networking for „hungry“ postdocs! When? Friday, 18 December 2020, 1 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Where? Zoom   This time, the Brown Bag Break@FAU will focus on a rather exciting but also somewhat controversial topic: Failure in ...

At the start of the new semester, the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Theology would like to welcome all new colleagues and wish them a successful start! Prof. Dr. Ursula Roth is briefly introduced here as the new professor: Prof. Dr. Ursula Roth has held the Chair of Practical Theology ...

In order to ensure good study conditions during the pandemic in winter semester 2020/21, the faculty offers several rooms on campus where students can study and access the internet. Campus Bismarckstraße 1, Erlangen: CIP-pool C701 (Bismarckstraße 1). The room offers 14 places equipped with P...

Our winter term is digital and sooner or later you will have to hold a presentation or do group work on Zoom! So you better be prepared and Dr. Iris Wunder, the faculty’s e-learning coordinator, will help you in being so. Take part in the new event "Let’s talk Phil-Studis" on Thursday, 12 November f...

At the congress of the German Society for Sociology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, DGS), Prof. Dr. Silke Steets received the René König Textbook Prize 2020 of the DGS for the volume "Theoretische Positionen der Stadtsoziologie” (Theoretical Positions in Urban Sociology), which she co-authored with Lars Meier and Lars Frers. The prize honours the best textbook and consists of 500 Euros. Congratulations!

The Global Sentimentality Project examines how the sentimental unfolds its power as an aesthetic narrative strategy, as a practice of crisis management, and as a technology of political mobilization. Our understanding of the sentimental revises the stigmatization of the term in popular parlance and extends its meaning beyond a set of literary texts. This virtual lecture series brings together scholars from around the globe in a series of talks accessible via Zoom.

Diversi what...? May be the first question that comes to mind when reading or listening to DiversiFaith. But behind the combination of 'diversify' and 'faith' is the new, interreligious student blog, which not only raises many questions, but answers them as well! The academic blog was developed – wi...

Online teaching and individual face-to-face classes will be combined (hybrid semester)

A new project collects ideas of a utopian world and you can participate

In autumn 2019, Prof. Dr. Heike Paul was appointed a fellow for the Thomas Mann Fellowship 2020 and thus had the opportunity to participate in the series "55 Voices for Democracy". The series ties in with the BBC radio speeches in which Thomas Mann addressed people in Germany and its neighbouring co...