Research

Fun in the sun – that is what summer holidays should look like for children. The city of Nuremberg together with the Chair for Teaching German as a Second Language and the Bürgerstiftung are offering a summer camp in the first two weeks of the summer break, so those who stay home can be active, too....

Encounters with foreign cultures are frequently overshadowed by stereotypes – especially when it comes to refugees and their religious affiliation. But what role does religiosity actually play in the life of young people with migration background or refugee status? Prof. Dr. Manfred Pirner, Chair of...

After the launch of the virtual rooftop museum, the Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory is already gearing up for the next innovation in science communication: Augmented Reality (AR) – ARrcheology! Launched in March, the Project UFG-AR managed by Dr. Carsten Mischka and Dr. Marcel Weiß is bringing archaeological objects and sites to the living room.

She had established herself in academia as a woman, yet after her habilitation she followed the call of God: PD Dr. Nicole Grochowina is both, project contributor and research assistant at the Chair of Historical Theology (New Church History), and a sister in the Protestant community Christusbruders...

Self-employed IT expert, university lecturer, mother, and pursuing a dissertation project at the same time – much to do, but Prof. Dr. Sibylle Kunz has mastered it all. Her hard work has payed off: not only was she awarded her doctoral title in October 2020, the first doctoral student of Digital Hum...

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, countries closed their borders and mobility as well as social contacts in general were restricted.  People who were particularly affected by this came into focus: Couples who do not live together. For some couples, the pandemic led to a relationship crisis th...

Together with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Prof. Maria Rentetzi has produced a video that takes the corona pandemic as a starting point to wonder why diplomacy is so important for global health and how the WHO became a major player in health diplomacy.

Have you worked with your students in an interdisciplinary, practical or a specific digital format? Apply for the Faculty's teaching award for innovative teaching concepts by 7 May 2021! To apply, please send an e-mail with a teaching concept from one of the last two terms including evaluation re...

PD Dr. Abbas Poya, head of the junior research group “Norm, Normativität und Normenwandel” at the FAU Department Islamic-Religious Studies (Department Islamisch-Religiöse Studien, DIRS) was accepted into the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG...

Community masks (in German: Alltagsmasken) have become both a steady companion in day-to-day life as well as a key part in how the Covid-19 pandemic is being addressed culturally. Exactly this aspect is what Annerose Böhrer and Dr. Marie-Kristin Döbler from the Institute of Sociology are concerned w...